{"id":1505,"date":"2007-11-15T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2007-11-15T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T01:04:58","slug":"on-dealing-with-content-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"On Dealing With Content Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late October <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1469\">I discovered that someone was plagiarising my blog posts<\/a> on a website, reason unknown.  The website looked to have dozens of others&#8217; contents, presumably to game Google&#8217;s page-ranks or somesuch.<\/p>\n<p>I could have shrugged.  Seriously, how do you fight that shit?<\/p>\n<p>I sent him an invoice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m handy with a computer.  I know how to run an IP lookup.  I know how to find out who a domain is registered to.  These aren&#8217;t difficult things to do.<\/p>\n<p>That was three weeks ago.  To date, I&#8217;ve heard nothing from the scraper.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you run a blog on LiveJournal or Blogger or another service, content scraping can happen.  <a href=\"http:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\/2006\/04\/10\/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content\/\">This essay by Lorelle, a WordPress guru, runs down several ways of dealing with the problem<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s possible to be proactive to prevent it, but once it happens there are ways to handle it.<\/p>\n<p>Billing the thief?  Not something Lorelle suggests, though she <i>does<\/i> offer that as an option in an e-mail she quotes from. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late October I discovered that someone was plagiarising my blog posts on a website, reason unknown. The website looked to have dozens of others&#8217; contents, presumably to game Google&#8217;s page-ranks or somesuch. I could have shrugged. Seriously, how do you fight that shit? I sent him an invoice. I&#8217;m handy with a computer. I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1505\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Dealing With Content Theft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[71,4096,4102],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-blogging","tag-wordpress","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}