blog fun

[davemerrill]

While checking stats on, what, Thursday, I noticed a lot of hits for a pretty precise phrase out of that Ultraman manga post I made a while back at Let's Anime. I did a Google search on it and found another blog had appropriated the entire blog, line for line, picture for picture, and posted it without attribution. So I fired off a DMCA notice to Google. Yesterday while checking stats I noticed some views to that Ultraman column from Mountain View CA. Hmm, I says, isn't Mountain View the home of Google? Half an hour later I get an email from Google's DMCA team, and the offending plagarist column is gone gone gone. Now that's service! The rest of the blog, which appears to be material sourced from other blogs from around the internets, is still there, but they aren't ripping ME off any more.

So bloggers, remember, the occasional vanity search is your friend!

Comments

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I read an article that painted a similar picture, except the copied article was printed in a magazine... The writer did what she was supposed to to address the issue, to be met with an idiot who told her: A, she should be glad that they'd published the article and edited it for free, and B, that anything on the internet is public domain anyway.

My understanding is that the magazine folded shortly after that.

[mr-sadhead.livejournal.com]

One of my instructors at the college had that happen to him. A site appropriated one of his articles on setting up a web page, even hiked the pictures, using the original links. The instructor carefully changed the links on his page to new links, then replaced the old ones with images from hardcore male pornography. The pirate page was down in two days, but they were very funny days.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

That's what several websites do when you try to hotlink their images, replace the images with grotesque porno. Happened to some people I know who should have known better. Guys, Photobucket is free. Flickr is free.

We had a few people using images from Mister Kitty as their icons on message boards - hotlinking images for icons! How rude. I had somebody do that with a Candy Candy pic on a European message board, it put me over my Photobucket limit. That's one of the reasons I check my stats.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Rather than the porn, I've also seen people replace the graphic with images reading "This image is stolen", etc.

If I'm going to post an image I prefer to put it on Photobucket or link to the original page. It just seems like basic manners, really.