There is smart and then there is utter stupidity, sadly this is a story of the latter.
NOTE: IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST ON ANY OTHER BLOG OTHER THEN WWW.ATARUMOROBOSHI.COM IT IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY ME (ATARU) THE CONTENT CREATOR.
The other day I was looking at my site stats and I noticed a ridiculous amount of traffic coming from one domain. At first, I thought “great, someone must be really promoting the podcast.”How naive of me.
When I went to the site, what I found was a bit of a surprise - someone had posted all my blog content as their own! Copy and pasted every-single-mutha-fucking-post from atarumoroboshi.com and posted it. And leeching all my images to boot! What nerve, and talk about lazy, they kept my in line signature on all my posts.
Being the savvy individual I am, I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt. A quick whois turns up a newly registered domain this month to with the not-so-awesome GoDaddy and with hosting from a company called asmallorange (yeah, I haven’t heard of them either).
I sent him a nice email, asking him to remove the posts, and kindly asked him to not leech my images. I even politely suggested that maybe he was testing out his new blog and somehow “mistakenly” stole my posts and images. A week passed, and with no response, my patience wore thin.
Sadly, I had to modify my .htaccess file to prevent image leeching. (Sorry guys! I didn’t really want to.) Many thanks to Attack of the Gamer who had a quick and concise write up on how to modify the .htaccess file. I tried to re-direct the leechers to an image, but it seems I’m doing something wrong. Here it for giggles, maybe I’ll get it working later.
Anyway, while I can prevent him from stealing my bandwidth, this guy has also ripped of posts from Ani-One.com and the Hardcore Anime Podcast, and to date my content disingenuously sits on his site, sans my images.
NOTE: IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST ON ANY OTHER BLOG OTHER THEN WWW.ATARUMOROBOSHI.COM IT IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY ME (ATARU) THE CONTENT CREATOR
UPDATE: THIS POST HAS NOW BEEN SHAMELESSLY STOLEN AND POSTED.
UPDATE 2: AFTER THIS POST WAS SHAMELESSLY STOLEN AND POSTED, IT WAS THEN REMOVED - MY OTHER POSTS STILL REMAIN.
- Ataru
Hey this is Ian from Ani-One, here is the email I sent to the blog owner:
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Sir or Ma’am,
I noticed your website, (http://anime-2000.com/) is syndicating
content from mine (http://ani-one.com). Normally I would not have a
problem with this, but you provide neither a link back to our site,
nor even the mp3 file that would make copying such a post worthwhile.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve, but it seems pretty
ineffective at this time. Please provide either a link back to my site
with each article you syndicate, which you can find under the
tag in the RSS, or remove my content from your site. If you do not
comply within 15 days I will contact your ISP and request that they
remove the content. Thank you for your time.
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This was sent on 25 March, so I’ll be emailing his provider on 9 April. We’ll see what comes of that.
Comment by Ian — March 28, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
I’ve emailed the hosting company, with a list of TOS violations the site was incurring. I can email you a copy if you’d like.
-Ataru
Comment by Ataru — March 28, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
It appears he’s removed 2 most recently stolen posts of mine.
Comment by Ataru — March 29, 2008 @ 9:05 am
Most recent email to website owner
“Good morning -
I’m still hoping to get some sort of response from you regarding your usage of my website materials.
I do notice you’ve removed my two most recent posts, which appeared on your site briefly.
Look, I’m not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but I’m hoping you can respond so we can discuss.
By the way, don’t watch paranoia agent, that show makes no sense. Satoshi Kon needs to stick to movies.
-Ataru”
Comment by Ataru — March 29, 2008 @ 10:03 am