Another site copied my content word for word. Whats the best way to handle or report this?
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I work at CloudHashing and created a Bitcoin 101 and glossary for the site. - https://cloudhashing.com/bitcoin-101
The content was written by my team members and I, so it's all unique content.
This site recently popped up and scraped all of our content - http://www.pacifichashing.com/bitcoin-class-101/ (It looks like they are located in Hong Kong- I'm not positive though)
How will this affect us and will it benefit their site to copy our content?
What's the best way to handle situations like this?
Should I report this? If so, how?
It sucks to see something my team and I worked really hard on to have it scraped by a competitor. Thanks in advance for any help!
-Ryan
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Depending on how quickly you want the scraped content taken down you could file a DMCA request. (This is the FAQ's page about it. http://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown). It's not cheap, but I've heard they are as fast as they claim, though I have no personal experience with it.
I would also check out this site: http://archive.org/web/ It stores pages on the web. Assuming your pages were stored on there, you could (possibly) prove that your content was the original source.
Best,
Ruben
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pw1KVOVRyr4a7ezj_6SHghnX1Y6bp1SOVmy60QjkF0Y/viewform
This is the Google Scraper Report Form.
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