Can Blogwerx Stop Splogs Stealing Your Content?
I’m amazed sometimes by how many sites are out there who have copied my content. Occasionally I even see some of my better articles re-appear on sites like digg.com. I’d love to be able to stop this and hopefully Blogwerx is a step in the right direction.
Scoble came across Blogwerx recently who are working on tools that will help track splogs and other sites that are copying your content. I’ve just registered for an account and added my feed, but no results are showing yet.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do armed with the lists of sites who are ripping off my blog. I could contact each one, which would take an eternity, and ask them to remove my content. I’ll probably be ignored so this would be a total waste of time. It’s very similar to a service I recently evaluated at work that allowed you to track who was using your identity online, but didn’t provide the tools to go after the fraudsters.
Do you have a problem with splogs, or do you have any tips for stopping content theft?
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Comment by Tony Moura on 4 February 2007:
Hello,
Tony here from Iwerx the parent company of Blogwerx and Developer of Sentinel. When first coming up with the concept and what tools we could provide that would work wasn’t easy to say the least.
When a site is added to the black list Sentinel will send out a DMCA notice along with a report to whatever information it find on who owns the domain. If it’s a free host then to abuse@ etc.
There really isnt an easy way to combat the issue of sploggers or others stealing your content. We are attempting to take a few first steps in giving the blogging community at least something they can use.
As we gain more insight as to what the community really needs and wants. We’ll work on making that happen if it makes sense for all. This is by no means the last version of Sentinel but just the first version in a long line of uses and features that the community will drive.
Comment by Everton on 4 February 2007:
Hi Tony
Have you had any sucesses yet with your DMCA notices?
Comment by Thilak on 4 February 2007:
Everyone, read this: http://forum.connectedinternet.co.uk/index.php/topic,109.0.html
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Comment by Tony Moura on 2 May 2007:
Sorry to just now get back around to this posting and your question. We had to take a step back and rebuild Sentinel from the ground up. Long story but lets just say developer issues.
This has also given us the ability to add in features that we hadn’t thought of before but were asked of us at Demo. One of those is the ability to set rules that Sentinel would follow, eliminating some of the more manual features of Sentinel.
We are looking to re-release Sentinel towards the end of this month with exact matching and then 30 days later with synonym matching.
Thank You