Tragedy of Plagiarism Chronologies

• One day I checked my technorati and found a strange link so I track it. I found out my blog is copied wholesale by one site.
  
• I didn't know what to do, I tried to get some help from Bobby and he told me that we shouldn't contact the owner, contacted the host instead.

How can we know the host? Go to these sites:

http://www.whois.net/
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.betterwhois.com/
http://www.allwhois.com/
http://www.geektools.com/whois.php

• I found all information about the owner, his email, and his address (I think they all fake so I didn't try to contact him). The domain is hosted by godaddy.com and I sent email to godaddy to report this website. I sent emails 3 times and got no responds until I send all contact email at Godaddy then they replied my email. I have to submit my copyright claim in accordance with all steps as outlined in our Copyright and Trademark Policy located here.
• Unfortunately, the site is not hosted at Godaddy's server so they couldn't delete it... he has his own server. Where did I find the server information? Ese an NSLookup tool that will allow you to see resolving IP address for these websites. An NSlookup tool can be found here . This tool will give you the resolving IP address which can then be compared to ARIN.net IP allocation database. This will give you the relevant information for the true hosting provider. (this information is received from GoDaddy.com Copyright Claims Dept)
  
• I ask Ed's opinion about this as my knowledge about this domain and server things are limited. He kindly checked them all from me. He also posted his opinion at his site. I got many subjective opinions from the comments as well... it is so helpful! Ed convinced me that this site won't stop copying mine. Oh well.. I have to learn to accept this.. (Ed I owe you so much! Meet me someday at Singapore ya! LOL)

At the same time, when I was working on this problem, LadyJava told me that google made a PR correction. We were chatting about this, and found out that our PR were drop 1 level from before. I told LJ that my blog content was stolen and the links are all over that site including her site's link! I also told her how I find the links from technorati (point no. 1) and she directly checked her techonrati and found that there is a porn site link to her site! We remembered that we shouldn't be linked by bad neighborhood as it will affect our PR. (Why we care about PR will be written later ya). I felt so sorry for her and I decided to stop doing the naboplomo project that ended to some misunderstanding.

Hm.. these days I try to investigate this thief site and got some hypothesis:
1. It is autopilot copied (copy by robot or software).
2. I suspect (but I think I am wrong) that the site is updated everytime I ping my site (to technorati may be?). If only know how they work I will try to make it stop! So these coming days I will try not to ping my technorati and see the result. If you know something about this, please let me know.
3. LB gave me some insight that I could change the picture title later if I don't want my pictures uploaded on that site... so from now on I put my personal pictures photobucket and upload it using html code. As soon as my pictures are copied I will rename my picture's link. (ugh this is so troublesome and photobucket can't be uploaded today!)

What you might want to know:
1. Add your creative common copyrighted
2. Protect your page by CopyScape
3. Accept that may be the above copyright links can't help you at all but at least you have tried to protect your work. Let's hope that this banner can make the thief content aware about what he is doing is really bad and cursed.
4. The full text of the DMCA can be viewed at the following site,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA.
5. Do moderate your comments when you post something that may be controversial. Not all people who read our blog is nice and friendly.


So what am I going to do?

• I will try to rename the picture like I wrote above - may be I will use that screen capture again and again to be seen on that site.. *evil grin* that's the machine.. it's heartless but surely has some deficiencies.
  
• It only copy 50-80 first words, so I can try to place the picture and links in the middle or at the end of the posts.
  
• I also will learn to live with it, accept the fact that now this blog has echoes... quite cool eh?
  
• I received some comments that state they have the same problem with me. Well, I guess myBig Daddy has better plans for this blog and He definitely can turn bad things into blessings, in any condition and situation.
  
• If someday I find that this echoes (that site keep on repeating what I write) bring something disadvantages for me or my readers, I just will stop posting in this blog and start a new one all over again.
  

Dear friends, thank you for reminding me that these bad things shouldn't ruin my days. Just like Sam of Acquire Wisdom's comment (and post) : "What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Thaddeus Golas