It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single blogger in possession of a good website,
must be in want of a scraper.
If you write about sex or post homegrown sexytime photos, you really need to pay a visit to Sc@ndal Sha@ck .com/x1 They’re doing some large-scale scraping; in fact I think their content right now consists entirely of pieces written by others and ads, omg the ads.
Mina wrote about her delightful experiences in trying to get them to remove her content here, and Coy Pink emailed to let me know that they were scraping my content as well. I spent an enjoyable2 morning sorting through their site steaming dung heap and then reporting them to the appropriate authorities.
If you find your content used illegally on Sc@ndal Sh@ack (or any other site), you will need to contact the site owner, who has oh-so-thoughtfully provided a link at the bottom of each page for this very reason.3 You should also send along a note to the site’s hosting provider, who may, if enough such reports are made, eventually shut them down.
Any good tips on how best to deal with content scraping? Please share in the comments below.
Contacting the guy who runs the site is a waste of everyone’s time. From talking to other blogger’s he responds the very same rude way and tells them to “do the right” thing and fill out a claim on his site. Only, he turns around and slings more profanity at you when you do telling you, you are ridiculous to claim LEWD work as your own. HA! Has he not seen how LEWD his own site is?
Hostgator, the company who currently hosts his site were kind enough to remove my content for me. Also, he has stopped spamming my email account and my new posts no longer appear on his site.
I agree though… we really need to keep hitting on hostgator to take down this site! And wouldn’t you know, I saw you wrote this post linking to me because I got the pingback from Scandal Shack because they stole this post from you!
Reeeeeally now. Off to investigate!
I call it random annoying fuckery.
put this in your deny from section of your .htaccess file:
deny from 174.132.78.253