Yesterday I was informed about someone stealing my content again. I take a pretty hard line to this these days. I used to be a little unsure about how to approach it, but now I just hit them with a DMCA take-down notice straight away. I’ve not got time to explain to everyone and their dog about copyright law…
So the current thief has nicked 35+ of my articles. I went to the WordPress.com DMCA Notice page and they say the usual stuff, except that you have to file a separate notice per blog post. All other services I’ve encountered allow you to post a single notice, listing all the offending posts. Not WordPress.com! (see update below)
So now I’m faced with posting 35+ notices, or not bothering. I’m posting the notices and a shitty email to WordPress.com. By making this process significantly more clumsy than other service providers, they are playing into the hands of the thieves. I think this is an almighty fail on their part!
Cheers
Tim…
Update: WordPress.com have got back to me saying they have removed the offending content. They also said I should have posted a single DMCA notice for all the URLs on this blog. Easier said than done when the form prevents this! I think someone at WordPress.com needs to do some proper testing of their form.
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RT @oraclebase: Copyright Theft: http://t.co/HXEe5hkFXX not making my life easy! | The ORACLE-BASE Blog http://t.co/CATex3u9aB
So tempted to put the following on my blog:
“Copyright Theft: WordPress.com not making my life easy!
Yesterday I was informed about someone stealing my content again. I take a pretty hard line to this these days. I used to be a little unsure about how to approach it, but now I just hit them with a DMCA take-down notice straight away. I’ve not got time to explain to everyone and their dog about copyright law…
So the current thief has nicked 35+ of my articles. I went to the WordPress.com DMCA Notice page and they say the usual stuff, except that you have to file a separate notice per blog post. All other services I’ve encountered allow you to post a single notice, listing all the offending posts. Not WordPress.com!
So now I’m faced with posting 35+ notices, or not bothering. I’m posting the notices and a shitty email to WordPress.com. By making this process significantly more clumsy than other service providers, they are playing into the hands of the thieves. I think this is an almighty fail on their part!”
🙂
Connor: Love it!
Tim:
I have links *pointing* to a bunch of your articles as part of the exam-specific preparation suggestions on my OCPrep website. I can’t imagine you objecting to this. However, this post made me realize that I have never really asked (and I just added another dozen or so a couple of nights ago for the 1Z0-062 exam).