While I was looking at my live blog traffic from Feedjit, I saw a visitor coming from this website that I never even heard of. So, out of curiosity, I checked out the site. And, voila! Look at what I found:

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They were too lazy to even try to make it look like it wasn’t copied from anywhere. They didn’t even bother to check their spelling or grammar. It was too time-consuming for them, I guess, so they decided to just copy my articles and paste it. Then, they post this disclaimer to try to clear themselves for copying my contents.

This is just plain rude. If you found an interesting or informative blog post or article and you want to use it on your blog, the respectful way to do it is write an introduction THEN post a link to the original poster’s article.

This really irritated me, especially when I saw all those small images/thumbnails of the PTC sites’ logos that I made myself. THEY COPIED ALL OF THEM and saved it like theirs. They didn’t just copy my contents, they even used the images like they were theirs. And they said in the disclaimer that they took SOME materials from my blog. No, damn it, you didn’t take SOME. You took 99% of your contents FROM MY BLOG! Sheesh!

There’s a way to find out if there are copies of your articles or blog posts circulating the web without your knowledge. Google has a tool to do just that so DON’T FREAKING COPY OTHERS’ CONTENTS. BE ORIGINAL!

If you REALLY want to use someone else’s images or contents on your blog or website, please have the DECENCY to ask permission from the owners or original posters FIRST before you even post them on your site. And, PLEASE, credit them properly when you’ve already posted them.

Now, going back to this website, I tried to send them a message through their contact form but it wasn’t working. This was supposed to be my message for them:

It’s okay if you only copied portions of my blog articles/posts but almost all of your contents here were taken from my blog.
Copying and pasting from other blogs is plain rude. And your posting a link at your About Us page is not enough, especially when you didn’t even mention my blog’s name/title.
The respectful way in doing this is to write an introduction and just link them back to the original poster’s contents.
Please remove all the contents here that you copied from my blog. You don’t have the permission to copy and paste it just like you did. And you even copied the table format of my PTC sites list. *sigh*
I’ve worked hard to write the articles on my blog and to copy and paste my contents like you did is SO rude I can’t take it.
I am looking forward to your immediate action regarding this.

I received an error when I tried to send it so I resorted to filing an Abuse Report to 110mb.com, which is actually a FREE web hosting service.

I’ll post an update once I get a reply from them.

*sigh* Pirates!

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UPDATES:
11/27/2009:
5:31am: It seems that the site has been taken down. Earlier, I had an email exchange with 110mb’s CSR. According to them, the abuser agreed to comply and give me credits on his website. You know what he did? He did not edit the posts but he placed a link at the very bottom of every post that they got from me. And the link said CREDITS AND SOURCE with highlights. If you were visiting their site, you wouldn’t even notice that link or you might even simply ignore it. I know I will.

Anyway, after seeing that and realizing that the CSR seemed to be satisfied with what the abuser was telling them, I finally gave up and sent them one last email. I told them that the abuser claims that they want to guide or help people in making money online BUT all their texts came from MY OWN experience that I wrote about on my blog posts here. They are now making people believe that they were the ones who actually had a good eye on which PTC sites are scams, etc. And, I also told the CSR what the main purpose of that site was. It was filled with Google Adsense ads and we’re not supposed to place Adsense on any blog that talks about programs that pay people to click on ads. That’s against their policies. So, I told them that this abuser was only after getting clicks on their Google Adsense ads.

Not sure if it was the abuser who took down the site or it was 110mb. I know this guy will continue doing this so I’ll be keeping an eye on this.

Oh, and if you haven’t noticed, all the little images of PTC sites’ logos are now with my site’s URL. I’ve gotten numerous people asking me how I did that and I simply offered to give them the images since they were kind enough to ask me. So, if you want to use those images elsewhere but don’t know how to edit them, simply leave your request on this post.

11/25/2009:
9:06pm: Whoa. After just a few minutes of sending my Abuse Report to 110mb.com, Paul from customer service replied to me saying that they already forwarded my report to the abuser. I’ll get back to Paul if the abuser doesn’t do anything to fix this. 110mb.com‘s fast customer service is amazing. I hope that the abuser will take action quickly, too.

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