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What to do when someone takes info off of your site

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K@:
Guy needs a DDoS attack...

ApplianceJunk:
I have found over the years the guys that start appliance blogs and simply copy content from sites like ours get tired of doing so after awhile.

Even if they are not manually copying the content I think after awhile they realize they are not going to get rich from the google ads on their blog and get tired of the whole thing.

That's been my experience with the few sites I found coping our content over the years.

We also just started using this on our site, http://www.tynt.com/
There is a SMF mod for it too.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2654

It will automatically add a link back to your site from content that is copied and pasted from your site.

Of coarse the link can be removed by the person doing the copy and paste, but our stats at tynt.com over the last few days seem to indicate it's doing us some good.

floridaflatlander:
Thanks appliance junk, I may try tynt, but it may not work, I have placed a link to my site in the content (a few paragraphs in) before to see if he would leave it but he took it out.

ApplianceJunk:
Yeah, tynt.com is not really made to be used to prevent people like that from stealing content and not giving credit for it.
I think it's meant to be used by honest people that really want to share something they found on your site with someone else.

In any case it seems to be working for us.

shamun:
If the things he is stealing are images or other media, you can modify php/apache to use imagick to watermark it automatically while leaving the original on the server untouched.  Doesn't have to be blatant, like maybe a 1-2% opacity diagonal name/domain watermark.

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