Hands off our content, Tygpress!
With all of the unauthorized harvesting of our posts that is going on at tygpress.com and seemingly not much that can be done to stop it, I created this badge that I will attach to all of my blog posts going forward.
Please feel free to grab this image and post it on your blog. By doing so, this image should show up on your posts that have been stolen by tygpress.
You’re welcome.
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Marvelous!!!!
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Some quick research about what tygpress is and a search of their website revealed that my posts are being taken.
But I am confused as to why they would take WordPress posts? Mine in particular do not receive much attention, and in general, tygpress do not appear to have anything to gain by stealing these?
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I can only assume they’re doing it to boost their content and attract more readers…because they can. We work hard to produce our content, why should they get to use it for no effort and more importantly, without permission.
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Thanks, I had no idea they were doing this and I definitely found they have scooped all my blog posts. Is there any way to actually stop them?
Why do they do this?
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Hi Neil,
Wordpress suggest various things to discourage content theft. This was their response to me when I contacted them, like many others have already done.
– Here are some things you can do to prevent content theft:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/
– If you’ve already experienced content theft, here are some things you can do: http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
You’ll see I’ve added a copyright notice at the top of my blog. I’ve also contacted WP (see above) and Digital Oceans who host the tygpress.com site. No response from DO so far.
I reblogged Fandango’s post with the badge he created in response to this problem and I intend to add this at the foot of future posts.
Why they do it? My thoughts in reply to the previous comment.
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Thank you for helping to get the word out about this unscrupulous site.
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I have added my voice to others. Let’s hope we get a positive outcome.
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Wow that’s wild! I never even knew this was possible, much less worried about it happening to my posts. Thanks for the info. Guess I will try to find out if any of them have been copied. 😬
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I know. I had no clue about it until it popped up last week. It’s not so much that I’m concerned about my posts being copied, it’s more the principle of people taking something without asking. Maybe they’ll stop now that our corner of the blogging community has made a fuss about it.
I haven’t come across any of yours, but it doesn’t mean they’re not there. They appear on the date that they were posted.
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Oh ok. I looked on their site and I noticed there is a comment saying something to the effect of “we now only show an excerpt from each article and all the content is the property of the authors, etc” so I wonder if that’s new?🤔
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I think all of our complaints have had an effect 🙂
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Must have…
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Power to the people, eh? 🙂
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🙂 Chris, you would be pleased to know, that Tygpress is down temporarily.
Do enjoy the rest of your day.
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So I see. It looks as if we’ve made progress 🙂
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Chris. I’d no idea this could happen.
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Nor I until the past few days. It looks as if they’ve been halted for now. Worth keeping an eye on though 🙂
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Well done Chris. Searched the site before it was taken down and there was a load of my stuff up there. Never a nice feeling!
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I know, the whole episode has been quite disturbing. However, it showed that by all getting together we could make our voice heard, which IS a nice feeling 🙂
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