Hello everyone!

To those who do not know, I do reviews in my free time. and This person Is stealing my reviews.... I won't promote my blog because I still wasn't answered by support if i may or may not do that. It has been a month! D: So anyway, what should i do about it?!?!

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[do it like this :P]x(http://)

11 years ago
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ye, sorry, i keep forgetting D:

11 years ago
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Sue them

11 years ago
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This

11 years ago
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Can i sue someone who's in a different country? I can't really afford to go around the world for courts or something o-o

11 years ago
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ahhahah to sue for anything he would need to prove that there is a loss or gain of income from these game reviews

go read all websites, they all copy and paste the same stories and/or reviews .....ahahhaa

11 years ago
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not at all - if he would want a revenue - yes, he must prove loss, but to take the material down and give a fee for copyright infingement - not at all. You don't have to take profits from your work to claim your copyrights (see most of scientific articles/studies, you take no direct profits from them, yet still they are legally protected).

The reason why many (not all like you claim) websites copy materials from others is that prosecuting someone from different country for your copyrights is pain in the arse plus it's easy to miss that someone is stealing your work. The fact that not many do this doesn't mean it's not possible thou.

11 years ago
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ahhahah ahahhaa such a funny troll

11 years ago
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Can you report him to wordpress for copyright infringement? If your site has the same content published first, they may be able to suspend his account and block his site.

Wordpress Content Theft

11 years ago
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Thank you!

11 years ago
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Steal his soul.

11 years ago
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Indian, haha. Indian. Why am I not surprised

11 years ago
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Btw, contact his hoster and explain everything. Say that you'll send a DMCA notice if they don't do anything. The site will be taken down in no time.

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How do I find who's his hoster?

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Thank you o-o

11 years ago
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The telephone number and e-mail address listed there are valid.

Have fun!

11 years ago
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^This. Look for nameserver. He's using free hosting :v

11 years ago
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*Freehostia. They are a free hosting company. Will contact them. Thank you a lot!

11 years ago
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You need the Server Stats tab:

ASN: AS32748 STEADFAST - Steadfast Networks (registered Jul 16, 2004)
IP Location: - New York - New York City - Liquidnet Us Llc

So you need to contact the US branch of Liquidnet:

LiquidNet US LLC
1500 N. University Drive
Suite 115
Coral Springs, FL 33071, USA
+1-773-305-5641

Please note that you CAN NOT file a DMCA complaint through phone or email. You will need to send a letter or fax it.

11 years ago
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This, all you need to do

11 years ago
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What does Indian have to do with it? I live there and I fail to find the point behind your comment.

11 years ago
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I faced almost similar situation once. He got fucked pretty hard. His hosting account was banned and lost all the sites including the legit ones.

11 years ago
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I see... well, I'm not surprised either, Indians can be such people. But I'm not gonna delve further into the topic. Thanks for the reply

11 years ago
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Racist much/

11 years ago
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Dont worry, no one is reading that shit site.

11 years ago
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Hire an assassin.

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need moneh D:

11 years ago
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say you give it when its done and then you kill the assassin...

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No. Golgo 13.

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There are four things you can do:

  1. Get a lawyer with pretty high chances of losing money and low chances of success.

  2. Try to find his hoster and contact them asking to take down the stuff you have copyright on. I guess you have about 5% chance they will do something.

  3. Go to 1000 forums and other and try to tell them what happend and that they should not visit his blog. Takes a lot of time, you will get banned on 990 pages and that guy does not care.

  4. Get over it! The internet is filled with assholes and there is no chance you will defeat them all and forever. You can still do annoy him, like contacting google about the copyright stuff and try to get him removed from there, add some words in your text as image to make it harder to copy & paste the stuff, add watermarks to your images or add a referer-filter if he just links to the images on your review (replacing the screenshots with something ugly if the referer is his blog is funny)... but the best thing is to ignore him.

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I do have my own logo on every picture..... And he's even using my pictures! :D

11 years ago
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The logo is to small and unreadable. I didn't even notice it.

Add a "Β© by domain.net", maybe together with your logo, at the bottom of each image. Make it about 50% opacity. Size should be big enough to let people see that there is something when it's a thumbnail but not so big that it looks bad.

11 years ago
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I have no clue what you can do about it, but I don't get it why you review games you suck at. :P

11 years ago
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Hey, i'm being "paid" by games to do this :) From Developers. doesn't matter if i suck at them, if i get a game for free so i would review it, i WILL review it :P

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Sorry for offtopic, but first thing that came up my mind from reading your title were guards from skyrim:
"Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?"
Anyway, try your luck with what other people said, don't know what to say. I bet he'll continue to do that with other hostings.

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You can do 1 single thing - read Google.com documentation how you can make Google not show his page in the search results. There was a way to prove you are the original author and they will stick his page at the bottom of google results.

11 years ago
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It was me! And I sold them for TF2 hats and 2 Fortixes!

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There's a cellphone number in the privacy policy of that site, call him maybe

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"Hello this is Steve from Ohio"...

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Or maybe get a lawyer friend to give him a call, for a friendly chat?

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:(

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:(

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:(

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):

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That is so word to word that I could find your blog within 5 seconds... You should at the very least send a message to the site owner/administrator, maybe they don't know that one of their writers is plagiarizing your reviews, and he probably even gets paid for it. Or maybe not, I don't know why else he'd do this though. Anyways, send them a message for sure, and write your next review mentioning that yours is being stolen by that site, I think he won't notice and even post it there. Happened in the world of comics, I think it's easier to pull it off with reviews.

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This is a common problem with text based review.

Id either a) sneak in your url in the body of the page b) go full video c) instead of just straight typing, turn your text into an image, with your watermarks in the background.

11 years ago
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Poor Wolfie :(

Good luck with this issue

11 years ago
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I bet you need a hug Hugs Wolfie :3

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The site's hosted in Florida, so if you can figure out the host then they're likely to honour a DMCA notice.

edit: It appears that the guy is using LiquidNet. Maybe see if they can help.

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Word of advice for the future: after adding a review, view it through the Wayback Machine so that you have proof of when it appeared on your site.

11 years ago
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Wow, he is even hotlinking your pictures. :D

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That makes it easy to troll the thief then, all he has to do is upload a second copy of the pictures for his blog and then change the first set of images to say something like "This review is stolen!"

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Or simply through mod_rewrite. ;)

11 years ago
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Or bestiality porn.

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It is better to steal something good then to come up with something bad... Hope you will get some compensation for you stolen work.

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Closed 11 years ago by MidnightWolfie.