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22 October 2013

Blog posts piracy




Recently, many of my friends have notified me about a particular blog. Upon visiting the blog, I have noticed my old posts being snatched and used without my permission. The blog name is called "Passive Cashflow Seeker"  I kindly tried to tell the owner of the blog to take my posts down, but there was no reply and the comment section was disabled.

Here are just a few posts that were copied directly from my blog:

http://passivecashflowseeker.blogspot.sg/2013/10/curiousity-and-fibonacci-sequences.html
http://passivecashflowseeker.blogspot.sg/2013/10/trader-vs-investor.html
http://passivecashflowseeker.blogspot.sg/2013/10/my-take-on-passive-income.html

I wonder why would anyone do such a thing.

13 comments:

  1. SGYI22 October 2013 at 18:28

    My blog posts are there too :(

    He has almost every financial bloggers articles. What can we do?

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    1. SCG8866T22 October 2013 at 18:36

      Hi SGYI,

      I am also helpless, can only blog about it to warn other bloggers :(

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    2. AK7122 October 2013 at 19:21

      Hi SGYI,

      We should not accept such behaviour. On my wall in FB, we are having a discussion on this, asking The Finance to lead the way. Perhaps, you could help spread the word too.

      We spend a lot of time and effort blogging and some freeloader comes along. It is simply unacceptable.

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    3. SGYI22 October 2013 at 20:11

      Hi AK,

      Sure, i'll help to spread the word around too. This is indeed unacceptable.

      Delete
  2. Wilfred Ling23 October 2013 at 08:48

    My articles were also pirated. Seems this guy is copying directly from thefinance.sg including errors made by thefinance.sg 's automated aggregator.

    This guy is trying to get advertisement revenue. He is using Google Ads. Is there a way to complain to google to take down this entire Blogspot and google ad?

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    1. SCG8866T23 October 2013 at 08:56

      Hi Wilfred Ling

      I tried to but, I don't think there is a proper feedback avenue in google. One can file a DMCA complaint if we think our copyright is being abused.

      https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?rd=2

      But that is for contents that are copyrighted :(

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    2. Wilfred Ling23 October 2013 at 09:16

      From my understanding, the original creator of the works is the automatic copyright holder. Singapore is the treaty member of the Berne Convention which means creators do not need to register or apply for copyright.

      Source:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Obtaining_and_enforcing_copyright
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Treaties_of_Singapore

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    3. Wilfred Ling23 October 2013 at 09:29

      Hayden Huang,

      I've lodge a complain using the google link you provided.

      Everybody, please do the same to take down this blogger!

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    4. SCG8866T23 October 2013 at 12:41

      That's good news! Will also do that. Thanks and regards.

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  3. Derek24 October 2013 at 22:55

    Wilfred,

    Really? But I only aggregate an excerpt and I thought the site copied the entire article.

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  4. Wilfred Ling25 October 2013 at 08:24

    Derek,

    Some of his articles contain the errors that appeared on your site. Those errors are those which your aggregator couldn't handle. Example:

    http://passivecashflowseeker.blogspot.sg/2013/06/question-on-intestate-succession-act.html

    Compare with:

    http://thefinance.sg/2013/06/04/question-on-intestate-succession-act/

    Original source:

    http://www.wilfredling.com/content/view/1721/96/

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  5. Wilfred Ling7 November 2013 at 11:44

    My articles have been removed by Google from the pirating blog already. Reporting to google really works! But the pirating blog is still there. I guess it is up to the individual copyright owner to make their own complain.

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    1. SCG8866T7 November 2013 at 13:00

      Hi Wilfred,

      I have just received an email from google too. Mine is removed too!! Justice is served at last!

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