My blogpost is copied at wordpress.com [plagiarism issue]

technicalbliss · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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Hello
Some blog hosted on wordpress.com has copied my blogpost without providing any credits or linkback.
This is serious issue.
My original post
http://technicalbliss.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-use-free-proxy-with-firefox.html

Copied post
http://harshitpandey.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/how-to-use-free-proxy-with-firefox/

I wrote this post on my blospot blog on April 18 2007, and this post was copied on http://harshitpandey.wordpress.com on june 6 2007.

Also the images used in that blog are directly hotlinked from my blogger account. Please take an appropriate action against this internet thief.

Arpit
bubel · Staff · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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I see your ticket in support. This can only be dealt with there. I will respond in a few short minutes.
bubel · Staff · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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For future reference (for anybody reading this), if you wish to file a DMCA notice, please refer to http://www.automattic.com/dmca
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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Thanks.
Actually I got bit paranoid. If you feel, you can remove this thread from forums and can deal the issue in private.
Thanks again.
lettershometoyou · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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The guy really doesn’t care about copyright, that’s for sure… If you look at this post:

http://harshitpandey.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/google-launched-browser-googlec/

it is close to a carbon copy of this post.

http://www.networksasia.net/article.php?id_article=4361

No attribution, no link, no thanks, just a post and that’s it.
bubel · Staff · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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Thanks, lettershometoyou. I’ll investigate any other possible copyright issues with the blog.
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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@Bubel
Thanks for the fast support. I just gor an email indicating that the blogpost has been removed from that blog.

@lettershometoyou
Even I was looking into the other posts of that blog. Most of the images used are hotlinked from other blogs without any attribution.

So I was just thinking that is deleting a single post a solution?
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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Thank you WordPress.
I have blogged about the issue and follow up on my blog.
http://www.meetarpit.com/wordpresscom-takes-plagiarism-issue-very-seriously/
raincoaster · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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And this post
http://harshitpandey.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/lets-chrome/

Is a copy of this post:

http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/best-google-chrome-features/4388/
raincoaster · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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In fact, if you google not the first sentence but the second or third of each post, you’ll find that pretty much everything in the blog came from somewhere else. I think that blog is not long for this world. Reported as spam.
lettershometoyou · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 8:18 pm
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I love doing that.
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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Its Gone..
Wordpress Rocks :)
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 8:08 am
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Opps.. That blog is online again.
More copies

http://harshitpandey.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/traslate-pdf-and-doc-using-google-translator/
is copied from
http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/translate-pdf-word-documents-online-google-translate/3553/
banzy3 · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 8:18 am
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Glad they resolved it for you. I found a website where somebody copied all my text verbatim (it was a travel article) and all my photos (including a photo which included a portrait of myself!) I wrote countless times to the owner of the website, but didn’t once receive a reply, so my plagerised page still remains there. Sadly it wasn’t plagerised on a wordpress related website.
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 am
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banzy3 here is something that can help you
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/dealing-with-website-plagiarism-when.html
banzy3 · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 11:00 am
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Thanks Technicalbliss, I’d tried most things suggested in the list short of sending a fax. I write with quite unique sentences in my articles so I was entirely certain that if I did a google search, only my article would appear. Lo and behold about 20 pages with my text popped up, mainly other bloggers using snippets of my work with one or two photos and a credit. Whilst none of them ever contacted me in the first instance, I had no objections. I was just a bit annoyed that this one site copied the whole lot with no credit, but I left a stern comment at the bottom of the article and redirected people to my original page.
raincoaster · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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It just got re-reported.
lettershometoyou · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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How can it pop up again after being taken down? That’s just dumb.
raincoaster · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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He probably only took down the specific posts that got reported. But if you google any sentence out of the MIDDLE of his posts, you find they’re all stolen from elsewhere. Or at least all the ones that I have found.
technicalbliss · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm
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Yes I am bit disappointed. Also few individuals have expressed different opinions in the comment space of my blog
http://www.meetarpit.com/wordpresscom-takes-plagiarism-issue-very-seriously/#comment-2310

Seems like wordpress.com needs to pay a bit more attention to this issue.

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