Update: Bitacle Removes All Ads

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 17th, 2006 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News

I just visited Bitacle’s Web site and checked entries both as a guest and with my test account. No Adsense ads appear on any of Bitacle’s pages that I could see.

In short, Bitacle, right now, is no longer earning any money directly from the content they scrape. At the moment, it appears likely that this is a direct result of my Adsense DMCA notice.

I will post more information once I hear back from Google.

 

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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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6 Responses to “Update: Bitacle Removes All Ads”

  1. Jacques says:
    November 22, 2006 at 3:07 am

    Great work Jonathan!

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  2. Jacques says:
    November 22, 2006 at 4:07 am

    Great work Jonathan!

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