Article Content Theft Rears IT’s Ugly Head…Again
Recently we wrote about how quickly and efficiently EzineArticles.com handled the removal of a stolen article that was posted.
Well, blatant article theft has reared it’s ugly head again, this time on ArticleDashboard.com. Another associate found a article that was stolen from his website and placed on ArticleDashboard without permission. This is even worse than having an article stolen from an article directory because his website was supposed to be the only website with that unique content.
He found an ArticleDashboard author listed as, Usman Iftikhar , claiming to be the author of the article. He decided that he needed to report the incident to ArticleDashboard so they could have the article removed ASAP.
Contacting ArticleDashboard to report the stolen was not made as simple as it was with EzineArticles. It was, however, nice to see the mention of reporting any stolen work in the Terms Of Service. ArticleDashboard does state that it will remove the article in question immediately. Unfortunately while ArticleDashboard metions to contact them there was no abuse email address or contact information listed within the terms of service. The "Contact Us" link leads to a page with a link that leads to their email address.
My associate sent an email to this link and it bounced back. He tried sending another email from a different email address and it bounced backed. Finally he looked up the Whois info and found he had to send an email to an "@domainsbyproxy.com" address as it was a private registration.
Hopefully ArticleDashboard will take care of this soon.
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