Comments on: Stop stealing from my site!

By: emilyg

emilyg — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:52:15 +0000

That happens to us all the time…we actually have a program (sorry, not sure what it’s called, but e-mail me if you want me to track down the name) that our program manager runs, and it finds our content on other sites. Sometimes I just stumble upon our articles or blogs on other site when Googling our names. What our program manager does when we find this stuff is e-mails them a ceast and desist letter, and if they don’t take it off, she looks up their IP address and contacts the host, and lets them know what’s going on. We’ve gotten a lot of it removed this way. Good luck! I know those people are a huge pain in the butt.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:32:44 +0000

If you can find a street address a cease and cease and desist letter might get it done. Do you have a copyright notice on your site?

By: Saph -Walk with Me

Saph -Walk with Me — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:23:12 +0000

Wow, sorry people can’t come up with their own content and had to steal yours, Kacie.

Does anyone know how to put that footer on blogger blogs?

By: Kacie

Kacie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:37 +0000

Thanks for delurking! It’s nice to hear from you–thanks for your encouragement! Glad to hear things are going really well for you, money-wise!

By: Kacie

Kacie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:04:18 +0000

With some sites, I get the pingbacks. But others, I’m finding the links via Technorati.com

By: Kacie

Kacie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:58:44 +0000

Looks like this scummy situation is happening to a bunch of you guys, too.

I just don’t understand people who operate spammy blogs. What gives?!

Anyway, I think I will ask my husband to change my Creative Commons license.

I absolutely don’t mind (in fact, I’d love it!) if people quote something I wrote.

But to copy and paste an entire post without asking if that’s ok…what the heck? NOT OK.

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:48:49 +0000

OOHHh suing them would help you reach your goal of paying off debt and accruing your emergency fund AND set an example to others who do it to STOP IT! Pray about it. :)

Anyways, I just came back to mention adding a copywrite to your feed, but it seems a lot of people have already mentioned that (and I just checked your feed, so it is already in effect I see). :)

By: Promises Fulfilled

Promises Fulfilled — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:45:48 +0000

I found you back in the Fall Y’all giveaways and I have been sort of a “lurker” on your site – so, I decided to “delurk” – not a word, but fun to write. I have really appreciated reading your blog and I think that it is really terrible that someone is stealing your words.

My husband and I were way in debt when we got married (school and car loans), so we paid off in two years and then saved for a down payment on a house – in order that I would be able to be a stay at home mom, which I am now (I have a 2 year old and a 9 weeks old). we are now trying to learn how to best manage our money – we pretty much have our emergency fund in place, but now need to learn the best way to save etc. I appreciate your heart and your writing.

I also was clued in to CVS by you. I only started doing in in the past 2 weeks and it is amazing how much you are able to get with paying so little! That $5/$15 has been really useful and I have used it many times already. I love saving money and am learning new ways to be frugal from you and also MoneySavingMom – I think that I found her through you. I have been trying to teach my friends how to play the “CVS game” – I still need to be more clear about it, and I just started a new post about it today – don’t know if I will finish it or not.

I hope that people stop stealing your words – but keep writing anyway! :)

By: Ariel

Ariel — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:42:27 +0000

People can be so stupid! It’s on thing to do a QUOTE! and give credit for it. Totally different to be so stupid you can’t come up with your own material! Pathetic. Sorry it’s happening to you Kacie!

By: Mrs. Mecomber

Mrs. Mecomber — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:34:54 +0000

There’s a plugin for WordPress blogs, called RSS Footer, by Joost de Valk. It allows you to add a line of content to the end or beginning of your RSS feed articles. I have one for my feeds and it reads, “If you reading this off a blog and not an RSS Feed reader, then this article is stolen from (my blog name).” You can put in any sentence you want. I like it.