Went online to check my Technorati stats for a bit and found that a post of mine got linked to a site I'd never heard of before – txtin.com
Curious, I clicked on the link to check it out
...and ended up getting the shock of my life.
...and ended up getting the shock of my life.
The buggers snitched my entire post!!! WORD FOR WORD, INCLUDING MY NAME! And to add insult to injury, they credited me as 'Connected Internet' (which, upon clicking, leads right to the original post that's right here on Tinki Talks). See!
'Connected Internet'?!
Like hello, I have a name, yo!
Grrrr.
Like hello, I have a name, yo!
Grrrr.
Looked through a number of txtin.com's pages and found that it was just a blog that contains a collection of posts from random people in the blogosphere who've included the words 'SMS', 'texting', etc... into their posts.
Like, hellooooooo!!! Isn't there an unspoken rule out there that says that stealing posts from all over the place ISN'T considered blogging??? Geez! Talk about post piracy, man. So salah! And their page is so full of ads it's probably raking in millions and millions of USD via Google AdSense.
And for what?
FOR STEALING POSTS!
AARRGGGHHHH! MOOGGGOOKKKK!!!
*stab stab stab*
FOR STEALING POSTS!
AARRGGGHHHH! MOOGGGOOKKKK!!!
*stab stab stab*
19 comments :
It's normal! Once my post got stolen by a blog specially for Mac stuffs!
My name was some French guys name which referred to my post. And when I checked out that name, there really was a guy with a blog in that name!
It was cool but frustrating at the same time
ATTN: David Cheong
– Issit!? Darn. Eeyer. But like so not nice. At least they put our names mah. So salah lah liddat.
But yeah. It's kinda cool. Haha. Piracy is the best form of flattery, right? =p
Lol of course! Imagine your chinese name being changed to a french name!
Awesome! hahaha
ATTN: David Cheong
– HAHA. At least you got a cool Frenchie name. I got 'Connected Internet' okay!!! So un-cool. -_-
Now that people are plagiarising you you are officially famous!
Yeah Me also had bad experience just like yours now..
feel like want to kick his/her ass and throw them to sg klang at back of my house..
But after many months I finally found one solution to reduce that punk content robber..Its a copyright signature that we insert from the very beginning of our feed.
But that is for wordpress..I'm not familiar with blogger but I think you should search that similar stuff too..
after that you can report to search engine to ban that website.
usually site like that wont last long..
SAME! and the most frustrating thing is that they named me UNKNOWN!
Fuck that! I've got my names all over my site and they call me UNKNOWN!?? Copy my post and didn't even make an effort to get my name??? Damn pissed la! I'm going to blog about it some time later.
*sorry for the vulgarities..*
HUHU..
just another splog in the making..
dats always happen, people steal other people things, somehow its ok if you blog on free platform bcoz u dun have to thing about the bandwitdth limit, but those who hosted on their own hosting, and that splog maker somehow using the image that hosted on ur hosting too. And your bandwidth will drastically increased...huhuh. that s*ck!
izzat,
another major issue with those splog thingie is your site being risk for a google slap..
Yup! google will find your duplicate content on others blog and that is a nightmare for many blogger or webmaster as your site/blog might whipped out from search engine if not drop way down is SERP.
ATTN: Melsong
– Haha. Nah, it just means I'm too free to check if people copy my stuff. HAHA.
ATTN: khairul
– Haha. Wah, so marah. I feel you. Haha.
Eh, where can I find that copyright signature thing for blogger? Any ideas? I could do with the help. A bit noob. =p
I didn't know it could affect our google searches. -_-
ATTN: yung .
– Wah. Semua also kena ah. Yeah, mine was frustrating too cos my name was IN THE POST and they can still call me 'Connected Internet'. o_O
Will wait for your post then. Haha.
ATTN: izzat
– Splog? It's called a splog? As in Spam Blog or what? Never heard of the term. Haha. Interesting.
And yes, it's sick what they do. No shame.
Posted the post.
Grrr still feel the fire in my stomach when thinking about the post-thief.
ATTN: yung .
– Haha. Read it already. Marah-nye!
Got adsense on his/her website? Complain to Google adsense lor
ATTN: Neo
– Yeah, got. But how do we report?
Hahaha..that's really very very bengang when ppl steal posts..what more if it's the ENTIRE POST..and even never credit the original writer...!!
But at least this tells u something - your post is worth stealing.
ppl only steal good posts!!!
we shud hv a blog police!
ATTN: -popjammerz-
– Hmmm. Got pros and cons lah. But the cons are definitely greater than the pros.
I'm all for the blog cop. I undi you. =)
I stole your line. Let me a thief for once ya!
i kena loads of times before too and i found it via technorati. :(
no fun but what can we do :(
on another unrelated note, i found someone using my youtube vid for their company promotion. feeling super wtf?! i left them a comment and he replied me with a lengthy official email saying sorry and what can he do in return xD best sungguh.
ATTN: 3POINT8
– Haha. Ish.
ATTN: pinksterz
– Yeah. I found mine via technorati also. So sien lah. I don't know how these people live with themselves.
Wah! So what did you get in return for that used YouTube video??
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