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Posted on Sunday 27th of May 2007 at 13:43 in Blogging

Name and shame: this man is stealing your content

Content theft - it's not big, it's not clever and if you write about anything Linux related; this man may well be stealing your content. He stole my review of PCLOS2007...

Meet Vipul Agrawal; the owner of Linux - The Master Of All - a simple Blogger setup where the owner has no brain. A slightly harsh comment but let's look at some material to support that claim:

He stole my PCLOS review
Refresh your memory by looking at my review of PCLOS and then compare that to the WORD FOR WORD version he has on his site here. The point I especially like is how he didn't read the content before stealing it; meaning you have my sentences like "One point worth highlighting is that I find the menu system to be slightly curious (as you can see in the above screenshot)." with no supporting image.

Word for word content theft with no link to me, this man is scum.

He steals content and makes a mess of it all
He copies and pastes content from your site - sometimes including images. Unfortunately for him, some of the sites he steals from don't allow image hotlinking - meaning there are a LOT of broken images around the site.

Content theft breaches copyright when there is no reference to the original content, something Vipul does on every single article.



Can you contact Vipul? No. He has no contact details on his website and blogger doesn't seem to offer this information. Technorati don't appear to either. So what can I do?

It's a blogger domain so I can't do a WHOIS lookup and it appears that I can't drop him an email. I have found someone on LinkedIn with the same name so I'll drop him a line and ask whether the domain is his. I'll keep you posted.

If anyone has any advice on this, please let me know. I've reported it as "spam" on Blogger but I doubt that'll get anywhere without me able to explain where the content has come from.

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i think u are being very rude...this guy has removed its blog completely....wat if he had ignored ur comment....u all cant do nething but scratch ur ***
john howard
*LOL* Name and shame. I like it.
Roy Schestowitz
lolll, yup u wer chekin out technical details such as can u get away with copying sum1s stuff and then saying u did it. lollll, yh i belive u. dat was sarcasm bdw. lolol ofcourse u had to remove it, ur blog was about 2 go down but seopher i still think u should report this guy. he’s an embaressment.
dynasty
I apologise for the content stealing issue. I was trying out some other technical details and no intension of getting any benefit out of it. Owing to your complaint i have REMOVED the blog completely. you may try it yourself.
http://linux-thebest.blogspot.com
Vipul Agrawal
You should really rel="noref" those links... Don’t give that crap any sort of SE bonus.

But yes... I’d neuter all his methods and motivations for stealing things including getting him getting kicked off Blogspot and his advertisers, as Jonathan says.
Oli
My name is Jonathan Bailey and I run the site Plagiarism Today. I just wanted to say that I’m sorry to hear about what has happened to you. However, there are a lot of things that you can do here.

First, you can report him to Agloco using the info here: http://www.agloco.com/web/guest/termsofuse That seems to be his ad network and as likely his profit motive for doing this. Informing them of what he is doing eliminates that.

Second, you can report him to Google Blogger by using the information here. http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html That will get the account shut down and your content removed. While reporting him to Google as per John’s suggestion can work in some cases, this will get the work completely removed.

However, you will need access to a fax machine to make this happen.

If you need any help with this, just let me know. I will gladly assist any way that I can! Good luck with this!
Jonathan Bailey
File a DMCA get his account banned and the site removed from google.

http://www.google.com/dmca.html
Constant-Content.com does this to offenders of content theft
John
Wow. This guy is low. I cannot comprehend how anybody could contemplate stealing content from another site. As they say "it’s just not cricket".
Andy