If you’ve ever need to report abuse to WordPress.com admins, a new post by myself on Lorelle on WordPress will help you get the resolution that you want.

As an avid WordPress user, there are a few plugins I’d like to see developed to help people protect their content.

Once you’ve found an infringer and identified their host, the real quest often begins. Finding out who to contact can be the hardest part of all.

A new service by Lijit has raised eyebrows in the content community. Does their new aggregation service provide a new solution for content licensing or just push the boundaries of what is spam?

I’ve sent hundreds of takedown notices and seen a wide variety of replies, but Joyent has taken the cake by not just failing to act, but actively defending a potential spam blogger.

A recent study by content tracking service Attributor has found that, for many publishers, their audience off their site completely dwarfs the pageviews they can count.

Google has traditionally been one of the toughest hosts to work with, Its requirement of a scanned signature and limited contact information makes them hard to reach, unless you know where to look.

Spammers are making it harder and harder to separate their creations from those of amateur bloggers. However, by understanding various ways to spot spam blogs and how spammers try to beat those methods, you can better detect junk sites yourself.

Inspired by recent posts, I decided to take a look at Google Trends and see how search terms relative to content theft were doing.

In a 20-minute screencast, Duncan Riley adeptly explains the issues with RSS scraping, why it is not acceptable and why many so-called services are treading on very thin legal/moral ice.