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Sunday, October 01, 2017

Blogarama Content Scraper

This is my second blog post today discussing a blog directory content scraper or content thief. Earlier today, I published a blog post on another blog directory content scraper, BlogCatalog. This herein, "copyrighted" blog post puts the notorious spotlight on Blogarama for their scraping of my copyrighted content including images.

I've already said this ... that it is more than concerning how some websites will just plain STEAL your copyrighted content and copyrighted images and make you think it is OK. Calling yourself a blog catalog or blog directory does not make it OK to take without the author's permission their entire blog post with images to post on their website.

Normally, a reputable blog catalog or directory website will ask you if you would like to have your blog included first. Then, after you have granted permission to feature your blog, the blog catalog or directory will share SNIPPETS or an acceptable summary of your copyrighted blogs posts with a link to the ORIGINAL blog post where you can read more and see the original. They will not steal your entire blog post along with all the images to put on their site! That is essentially content theft.

It appears Blogarama is taking my entire blog posts and copyrighted images as soon as I publish them. This illegal practice needs to cease and desist – they do not have my permission to steal my content so blatantly! A reputable website will not steal your work and create duplicate content [that is not theirs] to submit to Google and other search engines to index as theirs.

#1 - This DMCA Take Down Notice concerns my Topicability blog. A description of the copyrighted work: My copyrighted images and entire Google blog posts from Topicability:
http://topicability.blogspot.com
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2014/10/hungarian-spaetzle-case-study.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2014/09/squidoo-and-hubpages-big-news.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/snapshot-of-squidoo-splash-page.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-must-surely-be-in-heaven.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/holy-purple-cow-stars-take-2.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-out-for-smile-ad-from-google.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-100-how-to-squidoo-tips.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/well-what-about-you-and-about-me.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-cooking-in-food-topic.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-topicable-in-shopping.html

Blogarama Content Scraper of Topicability Copyrighted Content

#1 - The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/
https://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583843-hungarian-spaetzle-case-study
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583844-squidoo-hubpages-big-news
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583845-snapshot-squidoo-splash-page
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583846-must-surely-heaven
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/192797-holy-purple-cow-stars-take
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216447-time-for-smile-from-google
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/192796-top-100-squidoo-tips
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216449-well-what-about-you
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216451-what-cooking-food-topic
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216456-what-topicable-shopping

#2 - This DMCA Take Down Notice concerns my JaguarJulie Ann Brady blog. A description of the copyrighted work: My copyrighted images and entire Google blog posts from JaguarJulie Ann Brady:
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/cicada-of-leesburg-florida.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/dmca-take-down-notices-on-pinsdaddy.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/florida-leatherleaf-slug.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/pinsdaddy-copyright-infringement.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-rat-snake.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/awful-tasting-coffee-review.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/juvenile-southern-black-racer-snake.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/hard-apple-cider-review.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/eastern-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/anise-swallowtail-butterfly.html

Blogarama Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content

#2 - The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/22034640-cicada-leesburg-florida
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/22023764-dmca-take-down-notices-pinsdaddy
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21960527-florida-leatherleaf-slug
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21957057-pinsdaddy-copyright-infringement
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21742261-black-rat-snake
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21725241-awful-tasting-coffee-review
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21732575-juvenile-southern-black-racer-snake
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21595007-hard-apple-cider-review
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21580392-eastern-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21584441-anise-swallowtail-butterfly

Hello God testing me in heaven T-Shirt
by jaguarjulie

I had been very busy dealing with all the content thieves on Amazon that were stealing hundreds of my copyrighted designs from my three Zazzle stores to sell as theirs on Amazon. It was well over a year of continuous reporting and finding the same designs popping up again and again with new sellers there who appeared to be mostly from China.

So, I finally seemed to catch up with the thievery on Amazon to next find a site named Pinsdaddy who has stolen hundreds of my copyrighted images to use on their website. But, worse that just using my copyrighted images, they are suggesting these images are stock images that are free to download and use by the reader. Good Grief!! Houston, we have a problem.

I'm still dealing with DMCA Take Down Notices against Pinsdaddy and have now begun to focus on the blog directories, filing first a DMCA Take Down Notice against BlogCatalog. And, today, filing against a blog directory site of Blogarama. I would say Blogarama seems to be much more concerning as they are literally stealing my content as I publish it!!!

As I've said previously, I would think Google can determine that this type of content thievery is happening. What the heck? It does involve Google blogs after all. Particularly concerning is to find my copyrighted image taken from my Google blog appearing in Google image searches as attributable to the scraper blog directories! Hey -- wrong! Google needs to penalize these content thieves now and bar them from future privileges.

UPDATE: DMCA Take Down Notices

#1 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Bluehost.com

Compliance Department legal@bluehost.com

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Bluehost.

We are in receipt of your email regarding blogarama.com. This website is hosted elsewhere and we have no control over the website or its content. Any issues regarding the content of the website will need to be addressed either directly to the owner of the site or to the hosting provider (who should be in a position to assist you with your concerns).

Currently, it appears that the hosting provider for this website is: Linode, LLC

#2 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Linode.com

Linode Abuse

Hi,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The domain in question is hosted behind CloudFlare’s reverse proxy service:

$ dig +short blogarama.com

104.28.29.28

104.28.28.28

$ whois 104.28.28.28 | grep -i ‘orgname'

OrgName: Cloudflare, Inc.

$ whois 104.28.29.28 | grep -i ‘orgname'

OrgName: Cloudflare, Inc.

As such, we cannot currently identify if this material is being hosted on our platform. To properly address this complaint, we ask that you submit your report to CloudFlare directly and use the 'notify ISP' option. This will direct CloudFlare to forward your complaint along with the proper identifying information for us to address this. Let us know if you have any questions.

#3 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Cloudflare.com

Thank you for reporting a suspected violation of our Terms of Service.

Please be assured that we document and investigate every report, and will take appropriate enforcement action. This may be the only response you receive regarding your report. Due to the large volume of reports we receive, it is not possible for us to send a personal response to every report.

When reporting security incidents, please include source and destination addresses with ports in plain text format and accurate time stamps.

Cloudflare offers network service solutions including a reverse proxy, pass-through security service and a content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare is not a hosting provider, and we do not have access to our customer's content.

Our Terms of Service is located here: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms

Thank you for using Cloudflare.

BlogCatalog Content Scraper

It is more than concerning how some websites will just plain STEAL your copyrighted content and copyrighted images and make you think it is OK ... because they say they are a Blog Catalog aka BlogCatalog! A reputable blog catalog or directory website will ask you if you would like to have your blog included first. Secondly, they will share SNIPPETS or an acceptable summary of your copyrighted blogs posts with a link to the ORIGINAL blog post where you can read more and see the original. They will not steal your entire blog post along with all the images to put on their site! That is essentially content theft.

BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content

BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content

The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogcatalog.com/author/jaguarjulie/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/tersa-sphinx-moth/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/hungarian-spaetzle-case-study/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/tops-in-seo-and-affiliate-marketing/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/would-you-prefer-green-bean-recipe/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/amazon-not-honoring-copyright-infringement-complaints/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/what-is-topicable-in-shopping/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/holy-purple-cow-stars-take-2/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/top-100-how-to-squidoo-tips/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/amazon-design-theft-of-zazzlers-art-2/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/polka-dot-wasp-moth/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/do-it-yourself-this-summer/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/it-is-all-local-folks-oh-my/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/what-pops-with-pop-culture-and-celebs/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/hey-people-its-about-people-today/

Hello Earthlings watching the show T-Shirt
by jaguarjulie

This is not the only blog directory type of website that has scraped or stolen my copyrighted content. I'm also just sending out a DMCA Take Down Notice against Blogarama who seems to be STEALING my copyrighted work just as soon as I publish it!!!

I've sent my DMCA Take Down Notice against BlogCatalog to Cloudflare who quickly responded with additional information. Cloudflare advised that BlogCatalog's Hosting Provider is AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US with an Abuse Contact: abuse@amazonaws.com. It's been a few years since I communicated with Amazon AWS regarding a content scraper who kept moving their hosting to give me the runaround ... I hope I am not given the runaround again! I'm getting a bit old to deal with this type of behavior.

I would think Google can tell that this content thievery is happening ... especially when it involves one of their Google blogs! I have seen my newer blog posts copyrighted images appearing in Google searches as attributable to the scraper blog directories! That is really concerning that the original image is not appearing above the scraper blog directories. Just plain wrong! Google needs to penalize these content thieves.

Friday, September 29, 2017

DMCA Take Down Notices on Pinsdaddy

It has been a challenge filing my DMCA Take Down Notices against the website of Pinsdaddy who illegally took probably hundreds of my copyrighted images for use on their website, without my permission. The challenge has come into play that there is a lot of passing the buck or passing the DMCA Take Down Notice on to somebody else to handle.

I am not the only copyright holder affected by this copyright infringement! It is concerning that many of the images used there do bear the copyright imprints of the respective owners yet, Pinsdaddy thinks it is OK to use those copyrighted images!!

Autumn Beauty Sunflower - Copyright JaguarJulie Ann Brady

I first completed an abuse report with Cloudflare using their online abuse form. Cloudflare responded very quickly to the submitted report, supplying me with additional information:

ABUSE FORM ON PINSDADDY TO CLOUDFLARE

abuse@cloudflare.com

Cloudflare received your copyright infringement complaint regarding: pinsdaddy.com

Please be aware Cloudflare is a network provider offering a reverse proxy, pass-through security service. We are not a hosting provider. Cloudflare does not control the content of our customers.

Accepted URL(s) on www.pinsdaddy.com:
http://www.pinsdaddy.com/jaguarjulie-pinterest_gkiiz3R7BbA2IibC5mVlOgvUYAlR3d0GITH%7CNC5ln84/

Hosting Provider:
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OBENETWORK, SE
Abuse Contact:
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legal@evoluso.com

We have notified our customer of your report. We have forwarded your report on to the responsible hosting provider. You may also direct your report to:

1. The provider where pinsdaddy.com is hosted (provided above);
2. The owner listed in the WHOIS record for pinsdaddy.com and/or;
3. The contact listed on the pinsdaddy.com site.

Note: A lookup of the IP for a Cloudflare customer website will show Cloudflare IPs because we are a pass-through network. The actual website is still hosted at the hosting provider indicated above. If the hosting provider has any questions, please have the hosting provider contact us directly regarding this site. Due to attempted abuse of our complaint reporting process, we will only provide the IP of pinsdaddy.com to the responsible hosting provider if they contact us directly at abusereply@cloudflare.com.

Regards,
Cloudflare Abuse

I next sent my DMCA Take Down Notice on Pinsdaddy to legal@evoluso.com as recommended by Cloudflare. However, that email was returned with a bad email address. I next sent the DMCA Take Down Notice on Pinsdaddy to abuse@enom.com. After visiting evoluso's site, I found an abuse email for them of ab@evoluso.com to which I then forwarded the DMCA Take Down Notice on Pinsdaddy.

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO ENOM

Thank you for contacting us. Your email has been submitted to our Compliance Department, #ABUSE-14995.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL as this email box is not monitored.

Please note that due to the volume of complaints received, unless we need additional information, you will not receive a reply or update from us. Please be assured that we take abuse very seriously and investigate every incident that is reported.

Regards,
Compliance Department
www.enom.com

I received this reply from Namecheap although I did not send the DMCA Take Down Notice on Pinsdaddy to them. I think perhaps Cloudflare had sent it to them for me.

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO NAMECHEAP

abuse@namecheap.com

Hello,

Thank you for your email. Please note that Namecheap is not the owner of the domain name mentioned. We are simply the Registrar it is registered with. Please contact the domain holder regarding your request. You can find their contact details using any Whois tool, e.g. at http://whois.domaintools.com/pinsdaddy.com . If Whois details are hidden by WhoisGuard, feel free to send an email to the protected email address (like ****.protect@whoisguard.com). It will be forwarded to the real email address of the domain holder.

You may also address the issue through the company that provides hosting services for the domain name in question since they are responsible for the content being displayed on the site or transmitted through it.

It appears the hosting company is currently hidden by Cloudflare. Hence, please be advised to submit an abuse report at the following link: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form.

Additionally, if you believe you are a victim of an Internet crime, or if you are aware of an attempted crime, you can file a complaint through Internet Crime Complaint Center at https://complaint.ic3.gov , who are in the best position to fully investigate any such issue across any/all service providers.

If your copyrighted content is being made available without the authorization on the reported website, you may submit a DMCA notice with us. The relevant DMCA takedown request requirements are available at https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9198//dmca-takedown-request-requirements . Please note that we will be able only to forward your complaint to the domain holder. We cannot remove any files as the domain is only registered and not hosted with us.

Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.
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Regards,
Alexander Neustroev
Legal & Abuse Department
Namecheap.com

One of my copyrighted images taken without my permission to use on Pinsdaddy:

Autumn Beauty Sunflower Cluster - Copyright JaguarJulie Ann Brady

Read more about this copyright infringement of Pinsdaddy who took, without permission, the copyrighted images of Jaguar Julie Ann Brady.

UPDATE: On October 27, 2017, I received this response from Enom.com after resubmitting my DMCA Take Down Notice to them on Pinsdaddy. It surely seems somebody is giving the copyright holders a runaround!

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO ENOM

Enom Copyright copyright@enom.com
8:24 PM October 27, 2017

Hello,

Thank you very much for your notification. After researching this matter, we have found that Enom, LLC. is not the webhost, internet service provider, or administrator for the reported domain. Given that we are not the webhost for this domain, the allegedly infringing material identified in your notification does not reside on eNom’s servers. Accordingly, we do not have the technical ability to remove or disable specific items of objectionable content.

Again, due to the limited technical sphere in which Enom operates, we do not believe that we are the correct party to contact regarding this matter. In this instance, we suggest that you contact the party operating the website or the party hosting the website to have this matter properly resolved. A "ping" of the website you indicated often reveals the IP address of the party which probably hosts this website. You may then use https://www.ultratools.com/tools/ipWhoisLookup or another similar tool to identify this party.

Thank you again for your report, and please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions.

Regards,

Enom
5808 Lake Washington Blvd
Suite 201
Kirkland, WA 98033

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Sunday, October 01, 2017

Blogarama Content Scraper

UPDATE: DMCA Take Down Notices

BlogCatalog Content Scraper

Friday, September 29, 2017

DMCA Take Down Notices on Pinsdaddy

ABUSE FORM ON PINSDADDY TO CLOUDFLARE

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO ENOM

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO NAMECHEAP

DMCA TAKE DOWN ON PINSDADDY TO ENOM