Comments on: WordPressGarage is being scraped! I want to stop them…now!

By: Happy birthday to WordPress Garage! | Wordpress Garage

Happy birthday to WordPress Garage! | Wordpress Garage — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:03:53 +0000

[...] me, of “blatant[ly] disregard[ing]…a core tenet of our community,” of being like a scraper, and of legal violations. In the end Matt kind of softened up and he said he’s [...]

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:19:21 +0000

@Jacques – That’s a great site, thanks for pointing it out. And thanks for your birthday wishes – I appreciate it!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:22:17 +0000

Only 1 year old and being robbed already…. Looking at it from a ‘glass-half-full’-perspective: it shows your blog is interesting enough to be stolen…

As you didn’t mention how you found out: use this site: http://www.copyscape.com/ to find scrapers, thieves and scroundels.

Up to a cake with 2 candles!

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:38:14 +0000

Hi Jon – thanks for your offer to help. Here’s the end of the saga with the bum who was scraping my content:

I found his contact info via WhoIs, and emailed him to tell him that he should stop. He gave me a whole song and dance that he’s an angel, and his site is basically just a big RSS feed reader, so what’s wrong with that. He said that in order to show his good will, he was going to take this debate public. I told him that’s a great idea, and I’d ask my readers here what they think of him and his giant feed reader.

Within a few days he stopped scraping my site!

So, if any of you WordPress bloggers are still being scraped by him, and you’ll know who you are, don’t give up hope! Use a little chutzpah, and maybe you can get him to stop scraping you too.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:44:51 +0000

Almost every hosting free or paid refuse the right of using copyrighted content. Even though online it’s hard to copyright things I have actually done and found out that if you use whois services to find out who they are being hosted by and take it up with them they will address it and if not you have one of the most powerful ways of getting people which is word of mouth so if they choose not to do anything you post here about the company and there lack of help. If you want any further advice about this feel free to email me

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:23:57 +0000

Email sent.

On the site it says … “It doesn’t steal content, because every post reports the source at the botton of the article…the exact way a feed reader does. ”

What a load of baloney. Feed readers only republish content for a single user, not the entire world. Apparently their grasp of copyright laws is severely lacking.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:38:02 +0000

Ryan – can you send me the URL of that site via email (I don’t want to give them any extra publicity). If it is who I think it is, I’ll be writing about them soon since they refuse to remove my site from their feed.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:38:42 +0000

I saw a new incoming link from a site, so I went to visit to see why they were talking about me. But it was this exact same page! Along with the rest of your site.

By: Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Scrape This

Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Scrape This — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:09:07 +0000

[...] Back in ‘06, Lorelle armed us with ways to fight splogs and scrapers, Splog Reporter is was a good service, and Bitacle was mostly neutered (peep that theme!), but these assholes seem to be multiplying. So where does it end? Miriam at Wordpress Garage is wondering the same thing. [...]

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:42:18 +0000

Darren – does that plugin’s header only appear when the feed is being scraped? If not, I think it’s problematic because I’ve been seeing quite a few blogs lately that appear in Google Alerts, and while the title of the post is as it should be, the excerpt says something like "If you are are not reading this in your reader, it is being scraped." That’s not a great thing to have appear in Google Alerts.