sighs. Someone stole a blog story of mine, reposted the whole thing, *sans* the copyright notice of course.

And there isn't squat I can do about it.

Guess I just have to be flattered, sigh.

nods. Yep, reframing this. It's a compliment. Done.

Stacia: this IS squat you can do about it: you can file a DMCA takedown notice with the hosting company for the offending site.

here is one of many guides to the process you can find online.

I'll have to check that out as well since content from my blog has been stolen as well. And the offenders never even responded to IMs

And I'm talking about the ones you pointed out to me last year, Stacia

So sorry. What a shame.

CoyotePace thank you so much. I know I looked into this briefly the last time, and never found time to follow through.

suspects the site that did it this time has been doing this for a long, long time. None of the content is consistent... all looks pirated

o.0 guess i hear about such thing not first time

if the site in question is actually trying to leverage the stolen content, or just reposting "whatever" to intercept search engine hits ...

... and thereby harvest sidebar advertisement display and click-thru co-payments

the one that posted my content did it because apparently they can't write a how to on role play..but they just copied and pasted and didn't

(moot point from the victim's perspective, I know, but in the latter case, poisoning the site with the advert merchants would be nicer yet)

even acknowledge or link back to me...even my name shows up in that piece they stole

Coyote... they copied everything, photos, links, content, *except* the two lines of copyright text I had.

They even copied the little kitteh icon I put at the bottom, *after* the copyright text. Pretty obvious omission.