GET THIS PERSON OFF THE INTERNET!

Someone called Susan Welch has posted MY post from last night. And it said “By Susan Welch.” Oh hell, no. Get the eff off my Creative Commons Copyright, you stupid cow. Timestamps on my server AND my Wordpress copyright plugin will prove in any court of law who published this first.

This page apparently lifts posts from all sorts of blogs and sometimes does and sometimes does not give attribution or trackback links to the REAL authors.

If you want to fight for bloggers’ rights and protection of the work we do and share, watch out for yourself and for people like this. Watch for IPs and find the emails of people copying you. Email them. Email their servers. The server that supports this stealing person’s site has an Acceptable Use Policy and it prohibits stuff like this. Bitch about it. Get Creative Commons licensing. Use those copy hunting things to search the internet for people lifting your stuff. Get the Wordpress plugins that make copyright stamps on your published posts. I’m sending a professional but nasty email to these bitches right now, demanding that they either take the post down or add attribution as dictated by the terms of the CC license.

If you’re working on Wordpress.org, get the plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ban/ and it will allow you to block the IP addresses of spammers AND of people who do things like this. They won’t be able to come onto your page, let alone leave comments. A little research has shown me that this particular bot shows up a LOT and steals a lot from others as well. Go ahead and block IP 38<dot>99<dot>248<dot>249 right away.

Maybe they won’t do anything to fix this situation, but really? This is just wrong. I’m not putting this stuff in a book or anything (yet, hah!), but come on, people. This is mine. Yours is yours.

If they won’t share properly as we were all taught in preschool, then maybe they need a playground smackdown.

Fight!

UPDATED 5:30pm CST:

My post and others were lifted from BlogHer. Community Manager Denise Tanton said that this person has been a problem for them for some time now and they are working on the spidering issue. I removed the link here that I had placed to show you where my reprint was because it will link back to her and the spidering continues.

But to protect your own blog content – even though you can’t do this on BlogHer – put cupcakes<dot>pandadynasty<dot>com in whatever blocker or filter you use. That’s right. She’s giving cupcakes a bad name.