10 things I’d like to do to people who steal content
August 17, 2006 – 9:34 amby Darren
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This is in response to the idiotic reasons that people are giving for stealing other people’s content.
10) Break their keyboard
9) Force them to enter a 12 step program for Plagiarists
Have them write “I am unoriginal” 1,000 times on a black board (they would probably enjoy that)
7) Put their pictures and personal information on an Outlaw webmaster website
6) Tie them behind a monster truck and drag them for 300 yards
5) Send them to the prison with the “real criminals”. Let’s see if they can fight their way out of the trouble
4) Lock them in a room with 200 Problogger readers
3) Forbid them from using their dialup accounts anymore
2) Skin them alive
1) Convince them of the error of their ways
What would YOU like to do to a content thief?
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14 Responses to “10 things I’d like to do to people who steal content”
4) Lock them in a room with 200 Problogger readers
That may be the most effective and evil of them all.
By Leroy Brown on Aug 17, 2006
10) Break their keyboard
But in their faces.
By Kernel on Aug 17, 2006
I just sent an email to someone ripping off my articles, and probably with my own software plugin too… will it ever end?
By Elliott Back on Aug 17, 2006
I found entire copies of a couple of my website today. Word for word with no attributions.
By Darren on Aug 17, 2006
I think this is about the worst thing a “webmaster” could do.
No attributions of a direct copy is some BS for sure.
By Heather on Aug 17, 2006
He should be strapped onto a donkey with a Top hat having the inscription ‘I am a content thief’ and taken to every nook and crany.
By Satish on Aug 17, 2006
“What would YOU like to do to a content thief?”
Darren what is very interesting to me is that most of the content thieves are in the developed world. In third world countries, there is hardly any copyright law. Surprisingly in blogging, it is the western bloggers who are expert in stealing content.
By Razib Ahmed on Aug 18, 2006
Content thieves are everywhere without any geographical preferences. Wherever copyright laws are non-existent, such malpractices are expectedly most rampant. It is the fear of law violations that puts in check their proliferation.
By Satish on Aug 18, 2006
Yes, it’s mostly Americans. They’re aggressive, unethical, smart, and understand technology.
This is also true of many other countries and people, so the problem isn’t going away any time soon. In fact, it will grow worse.
By Darren on Aug 18, 2006
This being the internet, nothing is safe. And stealing content is sooo easy as well. How hard is it to just link/ask permission from the author…
I always include a link to the original site/author if I do link articles and such, its just common courtesy and makes the web a better place.
By TechZ on Aug 23, 2006
11) Make them come up with something of their own. Apparently that’s real torture for content thieves :))))
By the way, I found this on the Web: http://www.content-cop.com? Anyone using it? Seems like a neat program, but haven’t downloaded yet. And Copyscape?
By grace on Nov 8, 2006
I have someone that links directly to content on my site. They have all my main pages linked from there site to mine making it look like there site is mine. If you look close you will notice on there site my URL appears on almost ever page. They are dumb and should be baned from make a website for awhile. Thats going to be hard to do and I bet you can’t stop them from doing that.
hmmmm…. What would I like to do to them… Since they directly like to my site how about the links get moved and then replaced with a redirection page to a site that is illegal and have them be arressted for the content they have now linked to on there site. Maybe a child porn site or something. So when you click the links on there site which was mine at one time go directly to this child porn site. That would be funny when they get arressted.
By tak on Nov 29, 2006
You can lookup their WHOIS info and send them a “scary legal threat”. It worked for me in once case.
By Darren on Dec 1, 2006
Poor Elliot, complaining that someone stole his article using his software, despite having a prominent Don’t steal on his website.
But when you look at the facts Elliot claims the following:
So make a small name for yourself as a spam fighter, then release a plugin whose only value is to sploggers. Then wait while the sploggers create the link love for your “network”.
Elliot Back is evil
By paulz on Feb 11, 2007