DC Cookie: I Know You Want To Be Me, Verbatim

Monday, August 15, 2005

I Know You Want To Be Me, Verbatim

DC Blogs pointed me to a very interesting site. Someone has basically ripped off my entire blog, verbatim, pictures and all, and is posing as me from another location (KOB mentioned Antigua?). Perhaps to try to generate ad revenue through google adsense?

Spam comments are bad enough, but a complete and total copyright infringement on another site? I probably shouldn't even link to the bastard at txthub.com who has stolen my identity and my words, but I wanted to make sure this doesn't happen to everyone else.

Thoughts?

11 Comments:

At August 15, 2005 10:51 AM, DC Cookie said…

Hmmmm - KOB was doing some research after finding the copy of my site, and it seems the site no longer exists. That quickly. Nice job KOB.
At August 15, 2005 10:57 AM, Miss Penny Lane said…

Phew!! I was going to have to bitch slap that jerk!
At August 15, 2005 11:11 AM, I-66 said…

as if it weren't official, Cookie dear, you have arrived when someone copies your blog.
At August 15, 2005 11:11 AM, Kathryn Is So Over said…

ANTIGUA??? Cookie, maybe I should ask somebody I know something... I will report back.
At August 15, 2005 11:25 AM, The Boy said…

KOB also let the Urban Family let us know this is happening.

So basically this person is living a way more fabulous life than me. They make cash off of my blog, live in the Carribean, and do no work.

How do you stop it?
At August 15, 2005 11:34 AM, Anonymous said…

Hi,
K's Antiguan freind here. It wasn't me honest!
next time try to do a IP trace or contact blogger.com immediately.
there is also an Antigua in Guatemala.
But alot of shady stuff does go down here..hence all the online casinos etc. based here.

N
At August 15, 2005 12:25 PM, Crazy Girl City said…

Wow. What a dick thing.
At August 15, 2005 12:47 PM, A Unique Alias said…

Crazy! I guess now you have an excuse to google yourself, though :-)
At August 15, 2005 1:30 PM, Phil said…

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess.

Strange, though. I've never heard of this...they make money somehow I guess, or why do it....??
At August 15, 2005 11:20 PM, kob said…

Thanks Cookie ... I didn't see anymore tonight, although who knows. ... I doubt there's any kind of connection between the hosting company and the person behind this. It's a free blog hosting service, so anyone can use it. It may well be someone living in a Red State behind this. I do wish, however, that Google Adsense would do a better job monitoring just who is placing their advertising. That would nip this kind of thing quick.
At August 19, 2005 3:25 AM, Mark said…

hi, I suggest you complain to blogger.com support, because its being copied by bots. The same thing happen to my site!