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using adsense to make money online with copyrighted material

using adsense to make money online with copyrighted material

         

MoneyXtreme

10:36 am on Dec 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I've found a few websites and blogs overtime that copy/paste entire pages from my sites and put adsense ads on it and make money using copyrighted material, like this one
my website:
http://www.example.com

scammer's blog:
http://example.blogspot.com/

what is the best/fastest way to resolve this?
thank you...

[edited by: jatar_k at 1:34 am (utc) on Dec. 25, 2007]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

koan

11:06 am on Dec 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Complain to Google using a DMCA letter format by clicking on their "ads by goole" ads links. that will do it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, search for it.

wyweb

11:08 am on Dec 24, 2007 (gmt 0)



Emphasizing yet again that nothing is safe from the scrapers...

MoneyXtreme

11:32 am on Dec 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Emphasizing yet again that nothing is safe from the scrapers...

I just got out of 1 year battle of e-mails, complains and stuff with a guy that copied an entire ~200 pages website, robot.txt, scripts and everything, he finally got removed from most search engines and got banned from google, but that lasted ~1 year...

His hosting company cancelled his account, after a year I received a letter from his ISP company to tell me that they cancelled his subscription too, they considered this as spam... so I guess this one is out of the internet for good. But what I don't want is that year long battle to get results...

skweb

3:53 pm on Dec 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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For the longest time crooks have done something to good people but the best way to fight them is to make yourself so much better that people deliberately come to you not them. That is why most people pay hundreds of dollars for a Louis Vuitton bag and only some people will pay a few bucks to buy a fake on the street.

loudspeaker

8:09 pm on Dec 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Ever since Google de-valued MY pages after they were scraped 100's of times, I became very sensitive to this.

I look at daily logs and investigate any host that's downloading too many pages (usually, they are lying about being "regular" browsers, but you can spot irregularities in how they explore the site).

If I find spiders pretending to be visitors, I block them on the web server level. Normally, their IP's resolve to web hosting sites, anyway, so I doubt I am losing visitors from this.

Anyway, it's a HUGE problem and I am quite upset Google doesn't address it directly and explicitly. I'd think that writing a program that spots duplicate content on AdSense pages and sends a warning to administrators to manually review the sites would be trivial.