Stealing my content for SEO Spam?

[Hammer]

Have you ever heard of anyone that plagiarized a famous book being accused of stealing content? If someone builds a website to promote their website design business and they plagiarize text from my site, no, I would not say they stole my content.

In the case of an erotic story site, the stories on that site were written for the express reason of making money from people that paid to read those stories, so someone could consider those stories to be "content" but an article about cigars is simply an article about cigars.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Have you ever heard of anyone that plagiarized a famous book being accused of stealing content? If someone builds a website to promote their website design business and they plagiarize text from my site, no, I would not say they stole my content.

In the case of an erotic story site, the stories on that site were written for the express reason of making money from people that paid to read those stories, so someone could consider those stories to be "content" but an article about cigars is simply an article about cigars.

Ok. Cool.

That will save me time when I do my new site to sell design and stuff. Thanks for letting me paste text from Porn Site Pros. You're a good friend.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by KevinG

Ok. Cool.

That will save me time when I do my new site to sell design and stuff. Thanks for letting me paste text from Porn Site Pros. You're a good friend.

I never said you shouldn't be angry at someone if they plagiarized your site and used text from your articles, I simply said I wouldn't consider that stealing 'content'.

What would help me understand right now would be to drop the semantics argument and see the text as it appears on your site and as it appears where they used it. I'm not saying you don't have a point, I'm just having a hard time following it. And other than venting about it, is there a solution to this kind of thing? Since Tinderbox is a U.S. company, is it worth contacting them about and pursuing if they tell you to fuck off?

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Hammer

drop the semantics argument and see the text as it appears on your site and as it appears where they used it.

Ok. Look at the text here in this screen cap:



Now look at this screen cap from my site:



That is from this page listing cigar reviews:
http://cigar-review.com/index.php?op...8&limitstart=0

... And other than venting about it, is there a solution to this kind of thing? Since Tinderbox is a U.S. company, is it worth contacting them about and pursuing if they tell you to fuck off?

I submitted a spam report to Google here:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html