I come across a brilliant pretty good familiar piece of writing on the Internet. But I don't recognize the site. How did my essay get transported in its entirety to a website I don't work for?
I dash off what I believe is a crisply worded e-mail demanding that they take it down. I copy it to Mr. Kamikaze, because he is a Whoop-Ass professional.
The next thing I know, Mr. K has fired off an e-mail of his own, only his is less polite and carries a rocket-launched payload.
Now I have to get him to stand down so that I can resolve this in my own well-mannered fashion. Which will take twice as long, but whatever.
"You are such a bulldog," I tell him. "It's turning me on a little. But stop."
He replies: "You can't just invite me to help and then command me to heel. Although that turns me on a little."
I am so getting that guy a leash and a collar. But just for fun.
from the suburban man archives: Sh*% your Ken doll says
This is what I did to prevent people from stealing my content....
http://amitjainonline.blogspot.com/2009/04/disable-prevent-copy-on-blog-or-site.html
Try it and see if it will work for you. It should prevent people from being able to copy anything from your pages.
Posted by: Gigi | June 20, 2012 at 04:32 PM
On one hand, how very flattering of someone to "borrow" your writing, but on the other hand, wtf? Glad your bulldog is on the case. 50 Shades of Plagiarism should be your next work.
Posted by: Dawn | June 22, 2012 at 03:50 PM
It's a for-profit site. Not a personal blog. Not sure how it got there. But yeah, 50 Shades of WTF.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | June 22, 2012 at 04:25 PM