Anyone read Korean?

Content thief does!

[malachite]

Can anyone here read Korean?

Someone using a popular Korean blog portal has stolen one of my articles (in full, including the date I last updated it!), and has then hotlinked to the photographs contained in it.

I've tried looking round both the blog site and the host's site to find contact details, but without understanding what I'm seeing, I'm going round in circles, getting nowhere fast!

If anyone can help, I can sticky them the host site's URL where someone could perhaps try and find the "contact us" email?

Thanks for any help.

[LifeinAsia]

From my experience, Korean blogs/portals/ISPs ignore any messages about content theft. They also seem to be getting tired of people complaining to them, so they make their contact info very difficult to find.

Probably your best bet is to just block hotlinking of your images.

[malachite]

Thanks for the quick reply. To be honest, I didn't hold out much hope, but thought it worth a try!

At the moment, the hotlinked images are displaying messages to the thief, but in due course I'll do what you suggested.

What I'm more concerned about is the theft of the entire article. I don't want to incur any duplicate content penalties from Google as my site is currently doing very well.

[hunderdown]

You won't incur any "penalties." The thief's version just won't show in the SERPs. AFAIK that's all that happens to someone with duplicate content--Google just treats the duplicate as if it didn't exist. The rest of the site, or the site where the article originated, are not affected (and that's fair, because there are many cases where articles are copied with permission.)