Ho Hum - Somebody Scraped Me
21 November 2006 06:43 AM | Web Directories -
Portals
I've
been building niche directories, mostly as a hobby,
since 1999. I build them the hard way, by hand,
searching and finding sites that I think are worth
including and also letting webmasters submit their
sites for free. I guess it is a measure of
success/bad luck/perseverance/fame that some MLM
type, self proclaimed "marketing guru" comes along
and blatantly copies (scrapes) my web directory so he
can hang Google Adsense
ads
on it.
Looking at this "guru's" network of sites I have this feeling that he's not going to comply with my polite emails asking him to remove my content. I have little faith that the major search engines will pay any attention to spam reports about this guy. So I'm wondering what the best course of action is - out this guy and his phony web network publicly, DCMA him, sue him, or just ignore him?
Looking at this "guru's" network of sites I have this feeling that he's not going to comply with my polite emails asking him to remove my content. I have little faith that the major search engines will pay any attention to spam reports about this guy. So I'm wondering what the best course of action is - out this guy and his phony web network publicly, DCMA him, sue him, or just ignore him?
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