Dirty thieving bastards
I'm writing this post in the hope that the dirty thieving bastard scumbag sons-of-bitches at legal-sleaze.com (please don't visit the site - the fuckers don't deserve any traffic of any kind whatsoever; and it's full of adverts and will slow your computer down) will chimp-mindedly go and copy it word for word and put it on their site, just as they have done with every other fucking post I've written in the past few days. Every. Single. Post.
Here's the thing. I don't mind if people ask, and they want my posts to put on their own commercial sites, so long as they give me a link back. I've done so before with Liberal Conspiracy, New Statesman and Anorak. Happy to do so. Don't mind at all. So long as it's the odd post here and there, every now and then. But the scum at legal-sleaze.com have decided they can't even be fucked to do that - they'd rather just C&V the entirety of someone else's work - presumably because they haven't got any fucking ability to write anything entertaining or interesting of their own, and because they've got no fucking manners at all. I mean, look at this, in their 'humor' section:
Don't they look exactly the same as posts I did over the weekend? It's one thing to nick the odd post - we can all overlook that - but the whole fucking blog? That really takes the fucking biscuit. So here's a challenge to legal-sleaze.com - if you want to use every single post off someone else's blog on your ad-heavy site without asking them permission, occasionally even pretending it's your own work by saying it was written by 'admin' rather than by me, you'd better be prepared to be kicked in the balls. Go on, stick this fucking post up, saying what a shower of total cunts you are. Go on. I dare you. I fucking double dare you.
You know what? I pity you. I feel sorry for you that you don't have the talent, or skill, or simple ability to work hard at something, to do it for yourself. You'd much rather just use other people's hard work - believe it or not, writing this shit three or four times a day takes time that could be spent doing more productive or interesting things - and then plonk it all on your site, copying everything down to the related posts, which aren't even tremendously related. I feel sorry for people who don't have the ability to write anything interesting themselves, and would rather harvest other people's output for use on their site, because they're lazy, and noncreative, and probably smell of wee. There! There, I've said it! Now you'll be angry!
Two years' work, this fucking blog. Don't you dare think you can just go and copy it all, and I won't get upset. Fuck you. Fuck you, and all your friends, and everyone you've ever met, and your families, and everyone that knows them as well. Fuck everyone you bump into in the street today. Fuck all of them. Fuck you, most of all. Jesus, it's not even as if I don't understand; we all need to get a bit of content from somewhere, sometimes. But harvesting the entire output of a blogger, just because you can't think of anything to write yourself? Fuck you in the eye. If you think I'm good enough to put on your site, you should think I'm good enough to write a polite email to, asking if you can put posts on your site.
And do you know what? If you had done that, I might have said yes. But no - you couldn't even be fucked to do that. You couldn't be fucked to bother with any kind of interaction with another human being. That would be too much fucking effort for you. You fucking piss-drinking slags! Take my content down now, you fuckers, and we'll leave it at that. Keep nicking it, and I'll just have to get nasty with you.
*update* The stupid fuckers must be doing it automatically, because...
...and it's on their front page as well.
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February 15th, 2010 - 10:01
Nice reposte! I would LOL my bottom off if they did nick that.
February 15th, 2010 - 10:04
Has to be manual- they’ve posted some of them as authored by you (but with no linkback to here) and some of them as “admin”.
Whois records are hidden behind a proxy service.
Cunts
February 15th, 2010 - 10:20
They’ve even copied this post!
It’s probably an RSS reader script which just reads then reposts your feed. Go through your logs, find their IP and ban it.
February 15th, 2010 - 10:22
They’ve copied this very post:
http://legal-sleaze.com/2010/02/dirty-thieving-bastards/
February 15th, 2010 - 10:22
I know you said not to, but I did have a look at their site. And not twenty minutes after you posted a link to your blog article on twitter…
http://legal-sleaze.com/2010/02/dirty-thieving-bastards/
They are really taking the piss.
February 15th, 2010 - 10:26
So I’m afraid I ignored your advice and went over there…but good news! They’re not stealing your content manually, so even this post has been copied over! Yes, their front-page story is currently one referring to themselves as dirty thieving bastards!
Definitely potential to get your own back – could you post something horribly incriminating here and then delete it as soon as they copy it over?
February 15th, 2010 - 10:30
http://legal-sleaze.com/2010/02/dirty-thieving-bastards/
Wonder how long it’ll last before they realise? Looks like it’s automatic, so you could put whatever the hell you like over there…
February 15th, 2010 - 10:45
you could have some serious lulz with this!
February 15th, 2010 - 10:48
I imagine this is automatic. I’ve had my posts nicked in the past. Personally I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Think of them as an advertising board for your own blog – you’ve got to admit, at least they’re providing you with a free space and some links coming in!
February 15th, 2010 - 10:52
Do their “posts” get removed if you remove one of yours? If not, then that leaves them open to some seriously fun libellous antics.
February 15th, 2010 - 10:57
I’ve just added “piss-drinking slags” to my ever expanding list of insults, thanks.
February 15th, 2010 - 11:03
These things are link farms. They make money from clicks on their ads and are republishing your content via your RSS feed. You could try redirecting your feed via something like Feedburner, which will change the url of your feed. That would also mean your own readers would need to resubscribe, so it’s not an elegant solution. One comfort might be that they don’t usually last long.
Happens to me regularly, and fwiw I’ve started to just shrug it off/ignore as another form of spam. Good luck.
February 15th, 2010 - 11:14
Swamp and spam their front page over and over with a small, paragraph-long post calling them thieves, making sure to leave your own URL so readers know where to go. You can probably delete the posts here and still have them stay on their site. Then lets see how long they steal from you if their site is a wall-to-wall call-out.
February 15th, 2010 - 11:24
They’ve credited you as the author now and the author profile links back here. Did they ask you about doing this?
February 15th, 2010 - 11:35
This is actually pretty normal. There’s a lot of fake blogs out there that do this; it’s just a slightly more advanced form of spam. Annoying, I know, but nothing specifically to do with this blog.
February 15th, 2010 - 11:59
> could you post something horribly incriminating here and then delete it as soon as they copy it over?
Or encode the IP address of the fetching party in the text of the RSS feed and find out where they are spidering you from, so you can feed them their own personal version of reality?
February 15th, 2010 - 12:08
a temporary solution could be to make each blog post blank (or full of double dutch) then posting the article in these comment sections.
February 15th, 2010 - 12:41
They’re violating numerous copyright laws, the Digital Millineum Act, etc. Contact their web host and issue a take-down notice. It is not only bad manners, but illegal to copy your work without permission.
Meanwhile, do you have a Creative Commons license, which is another weapon in your arsenal to prevent copyright violation?
February 15th, 2010 - 17:49
DMCA is a US law, this blog is based in the UK (based on the address)
February 15th, 2010 - 20:05
There are international agreements between various nations (the UK and US do have these) recognizing the validity of copyrights from one nation to the next. Being in the UK does not shield them from copyright violation of US citizens (and Vice-Versa). The procedure gets a little dodgy negotiating the suit, but international copyright infringement does carry penalties cross borders.
Now if they were in China…. that is a whole other matter.
February 15th, 2010 - 13:04
Bit cheeky of me, but I’ve just submitted a Google Adwords complaint on your behalf, which should remove their entire revenue stream once Google address it. Sorry if you’d already done this yourself.
February 15th, 2010 - 13:11
Oddly the copy of this post is credited at the bottom to this website, which makes me think that it is not automatic, and they are actually taking the piss.
February 15th, 2010 - 15:58
okay, I imagine you are less mad by now… so think about how much of thier ad revenue (even if its only 70-100$) could be used for you to…
a) surprise gift a girlfriend/bf and get sex
b) surprise gift a coworker and get sex
c) buy a small amount of drugs and get sex
d) get sex
e) your genitals, being orally engaged, by if not your first choice, then at least someone in the top 50..
February 15th, 2010 - 16:53
everything you write on your blog is protected by copyright, and while potentially cost prohibitive, you could sue legal-sleaze for copyright infringement
BUT if they’re doing this to a number of bloggers, then you might get enough folks together to make the case worthwhile
just a thought
February 15th, 2010 - 16:54
that is to say, copyright infringement in the US
February 15th, 2010 - 17:51
Do they mirror when you delete posts? If not, and if they auto-copy stuff via RSS you could do the following:
1) Disable non-RSS access for a few minutes
2) Make a post full of porn and drug links.
3) Post it, wait 2 minutes then delete the post.
February 15th, 2010 - 18:46
The thieving muffins. Still… congrats on the 10,000 hits!
February 16th, 2010 - 16:57
You’re all a bunch of absolute morons. You created a public blog that contains an RSS feed. That gives implicit permission for ANYONE to pull data out of your feed – THAT’S WHAT IT’S FOR.
If you can’t understand how the internet works, perhaps you should stay off of it.
February 16th, 2010 - 17:22
Silly me. I had no idea how the internet worked at all. What a moron I am. But tell me more about this ‘internet’ thing. How *does* it work? Will there, for example, be people called ‘trolls’ who turn up in comment threads to try and piss people off? And how will I deal with them? With sarcasm? Or should I just call them a fucking idiot? What do you think?
February 16th, 2010 - 22:37
So you’re saying the purpose of the internet is to provide for you what you’re too d—-d lazy and/or stupid and/or incompetent to do for yourself and hence justifies your thievery and that of others?
Oddly enough, I misdoubt you would apply the same standard to, say, your bank account.
February 17th, 2010 - 08:28
Wow, this is epic.
February 23rd, 2010 - 14:36
Boo – this post seems to have disappeared from their site. There is a mention that says “Legal-sleaze.com is an online news and media aggregator site. All aggregated feeds and sites are given full credit for their work, including links back to the originating site and author when applicable.” – so, where is the “full credit” and link?