I pay good money for my hosting and enjoy rock-solid service (well, semi-solid at least) from a reliable hosting company. Despite running several domains, I am nowhere near my bandwidth limit for my account and am in no danger of going over my allotted 1 TB of bandwidth. I could probably host all of my…
Category Archives: Personal Experiences
The Copyright Office’s Online Registration System
Earlier this year, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) announced that they were going to begin beta testing their new electronic copyright office (eCO) system to accept registrations over the Web. The system, in theory, is supposed to make registering your work with the USCO easier, faster and cheaper than the traditional “file by mail”…
Massive Trackback/Comment Spam Attack
Over the past 96 hours Plagiarism Today, as well as likely other sites, has been the subject of a massive spam attack across a variety of formats and domains. The attack, which appears to have begun sometime on Friday, has been persistent for the past four days. However, at this juncture, it appears that my…
Modified Scraping on the Rise
It appears that Google’s push to handle duplicate content may be having an unintended side effect. Even though a recent report by Attributor indicates that the search engine has done a terrible job separating originals from copies, the spammers don’t seem to be taking any chances. Spam bloggers are no longer content on scraping entries…
The DMCA on 7 Print-on-Demand Publishers
With modern technology, anyone can be a published author. Print on demand services enable anyone to create a book and publish it without worrying about issues of distribution, storage and what to do with thousands of unsold copies. The print on demand publishing industry has exploded in recent years, giving thousands of authors an opportunity…
iParadigms Accuses iPlagiarismCheck of Abuse
Update: See footer of article for iPlagiarismCheck’s response. When Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, set out to test and compare the top plagiarism detection tools available, she never expected to catch one of the programs in a lie. However, it appears that is exactly what she did….
The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks
Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet. However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and…
The DMCA on 7 Search Engines
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at the port of last resort for many copyright infringement cases, search engines. Ideally, one would only send a DMCA to a search engine after other steps, such as cease and desist letters and DMCAs to Web hosts, have failed. However, since…
The DMCA on 7 Domain Hosts
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts. These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers. Despite the apparent conflict…
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