So I just noticed today, there’s a weird ‘blog’ out there that’s basically directly taking posts from this blog and a few others (Kurogane, Scrumptious, Mangablog and That!). That’s the entire site plus some Google ads. I hope no one is making real money off of our work!
Since I don’t want to advertise for them, I’m not going to link them, but you can probably find them if you look at pingbacks/backtracks whenever I link something from another blog and they have that feature turned on…
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Epi – who has written 193 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
As a huge fan of all things mecha, high school and tsundere, I've been writing for SSAB! since the summer of 2009, although my love of anime spreads through all genres. I'm not as witty as some, but I aim to bring comprehensive and well-written anime reviews out there for you all out there to enjoy!
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It’s a blog scraper… blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_scraping
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/05/15/dont-get-stressed-about-blog-scrapers-stealing-your-content/
There will always be scraper sites out there. You can probably report them to search engines (so they get banned from search listing). Scraping is probably against Adsense policy, but don’t quote me on that.
Hey you found a scraper! Welcome to like, 2006!
This is why I make my blog as unprofitable as possible.
Haha, I see these all the time, but they usually die within a year because there is no money in anime ads
We put copyright links in our feed to help readers determine the real source of the post, though a good scraper bot can probably automatically remove certain links. Since RSS is so open, it’s really hard to stop any scrapers, and I have given up, beyond removing any trackback links that show up in the comments section.
You can use a modded Copyfeed to poison the feed with an inconspicous hash of the requestor’s IP address (stock Copyfeed adds a plaintext of IP address), then have the scrapper banned with iptables or .htaccess, perhaps even poison the feed to your advantage.
Interesting!
Coincidentally, I just read a blog post with some tips about how to deal with theft: here. If they’re running google ads on it, you can at the least probably google dmca them.
I guess my old blog was so unpopular that even blogscrapers didn’t want to steal from it :p
Oh well
For a moment there, I thought you wanted to remove me from your blogroll or something.
even my little unknown blog is ripped by this scrappers..
Hey, I won’t have you guys talk bad about Anime Nano!
Oh, you’re not talking about Anime Nano?
I actually found your blog way back when through another blog that was ‘scraped’.