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• WordPress and Comment Spam

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

  I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some

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• Why the Cease and Desist Doesn't Work

  Published: July 17, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa, Social Networking

  that, quite soon, the more personal methods of resolving copyright disputes could become a thing of the past. The Changing Face of Plagiarism In the early days of the Web, plagiarism was predominantly a personal matter. People stole content from others in order to impress their friends or improve their image online. Though that problem is

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• A Scrape of a Scrape

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Ie7, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogging, Spam Blogs, Splogs

  I often get asked by reporters and bloggers alike exactly how bad scraping is on the Web. I discuss my past experiments on the topic and how, depending on your keywords, suspicious traffic starts showing up with the first post. However, as I was searching for information on IE7 security flaws for another site I’m working on, I ran across

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• The DMCA on 7 Photo Sharing Sites

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Flickr, Image Theft, Imageshack, Notice Takedown, Photobucket, Plagiarism, Safe Harbor, Smugmug, Snapfish, Webshots, Zooomr

  Previously on this site, I reviewed the DMCA policies of the top 5 social news sites. I found, as might be expected, that the policies on the five different sites varied wildly both in terms of how they were implemented and how robust they were. Differences between the sites became clear as sites with more money, and thus better access to legal

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• A Closer Look at iPlagiarismCheck

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:50 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Personal Experiences, Articles

  how the magic is made. Personally, I will continue to use iPlagiarismCheck as needed for clients and friends. I will encourage others to do the same. It is by far the best option out there for those of us who aren’t a part of a major corporation and don’t have fee access to an existing system already. (Note: During the research

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• The DMCA on 7 Social Networking Sites

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Bebo, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Designated Agent, Facebook, Friendster, Linkedin, Myspace, Orkut, Safe Harbor, Xanga

  For the next segment in our “DMCA Seven” feature, we will take a look at the DMCA policy on seven of the largest social networking sites including Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and more. In each case we will evaluate their policy, look for weaknesses and, as necessary, recommend steps for improvement. However, as you can see below, for

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• Tip: Getting Around an IP Block

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Products, Personal Experiences, Articles, Anonymity, Anonymouse, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Google, Google Translate, Ip Blocking, Plagiarism, Proxy, The Onion Router, Tor

  If you do enough work in dealing with plagiarists, it is bound to happen. A plagiarist, scraper or other ne’er-do-well, not wanting to deal with your accusations, will simply block your IP from visiting their site in hopes that you’ll think the site is down and go away. It’s an amateurish move that is usually executed by someone

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• Copyscape Premium: An Epic Letdown

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Products, Personal Experiences, Articles, Api, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyscape, Google, Google Api, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection, Plagiarism Search

  When bloggers talk about protecting their work from plagiarism, one name gets more buzz than any other: Copyscape. Though I’ve been very critical of Copyscape in the past on this site, it is clear that they are the only company currently serving this niche and many people are excited about their services. However, the biggest criticism

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• The DMCA on 7 Video Sites (YouTube Beats Viacom)

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Break, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Policy, Dailymotion, Google Video, Ifilm, Metacafe, Plagiarism, Revver, Viacom, Youtube

  For the next segment in our “DMCA Seven” feature, we will take a look at the “Darlings of the DMCA” as I’ve come to know them, the video sharing sites. These sites, many of which have been sued or are operating under the constant threat of being sued, have their very livelihood centered around whether or not they

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• The DMCA on Seven Blog Hosts

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Aol, Blogger, Blogging, Blogsome, Blogspot, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Livejournal, Microsoft, Msn, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Sixapart, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress

  and going back over my personal experiences with many of these hosts, there is no wonder why and how the spam blog problem grew to the proportions that it did. If you found this article useful, please consider donating to this site. Need Plagairism Help? Visit the Performancing Legal Issues Forum. jonb1324crShare This

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• The DMCA on 7 Domain Hosts

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, 1and1, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Dreamhost, Enom, Godaddy, Ipowerweb, Network Solutions, Plagiarism, Yahoo

  For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts. These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers. Despite the apparent conflict of interest, these

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• The DMCA on 7 Search Engines

  Published: September 20, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca

  For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at the port of last resort for many copyright infringement cases, search engines. Ideally, one would only send a DMCA to a search engine after other steps, such as cease and desist letters and DMCAs to Web hosts, have failed. However, since much of the plagiarism and

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• The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks

  Published: September 27, 2007, 9:14 pm

  Tags: Articles, Dmca, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Adbrite, Adsense, Advertising Networks, Burst Media, Chitika, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Google, Microsoft, Plagiarism, Text Link Ads, Yahoo, Yahoo Publisher Network, Ypn

  Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet. However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and

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• iThenticate Accuses iPlagiarismCheck of Abuse

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:33 pm

  Tags: Articles, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Products, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Iplagiarismcheck, Ithenticate, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection, Turnitin

  to an English speaker. A Personal Note The truth is that I am very upset about this incident. iPlagiarismCheck came highly recommended to me by good friends of mine. If these allegation turn out to be true, then myself and many people I work with have been tricked and outright lied to by this company. I have spoken on many occasions with the

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• The DMCA on 7 Print-on-Demand Publishers

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Articles, Dmca, Dmca Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Cafepress, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Createspace, Iuniverse, Lulu, Outskirts Press, Plagiarism, Trafford, Virtual Bookworm

  that have had similar experiences. Unfortunately, the DMCA does not directly apply to these services. Since much of the plagiarism takes place off of the Web and the publisher profits directly from the infringement, these services do not fit neatly within the bounds of DMCA protection. Still much as with advertising networks, many use the

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