Plagiarized Posts

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03-08-2009, 08:09 AM
Zalensia

Plagiarized Posts

First off I should say hello.

I am mainly here to share information of what seem to be posts from your forum which have been copied onto another website and passed off as their own info.

I am a mod on a catforum and we recently discovered large numbers of our members threads and posts had been copied & pasted onto this advice website with no credit or info about the original posters.

Some members were obviously upset, some wern't so bothered.

Today I came across a number of posts, and having searched the usernames they all led me back to here. So I thought I would let you guys know about it and ultimately it is up to you if want to try and contact them / do anything. Some of our threads which were copied were about pets which had passed away so it was quite sad to see such posts "stolen". I know ultimately once you put something on the internet you have lost control over it etc etc, we went through all of that but I felt it fair to let you guys know it also seems to have happened to you.

To website is http://www.tendlife.com

Some of the topics I found which seem to relate to here are
http://www.tendlife.com/other/pet-talk-0726.html
http://www.tendlife.com/other/pet-talk-1021.html
http://www.tendlife.com/other/pet-talk-1064.html
http://www.tendlife.com/other.html

I can see some are old threads (xmas 2007) but I'm not so sure how recently your threads have been taken from. (We first discovered it on our website in September).

Having done the whois etc etc there isn't much info. The owner of the domain has hidden their identity, all I've really found is the site is hosted by dreamhost and the domain is through a reseller account.

Obviously if you guys aren't bothered then just ignore this, but I thought I would share this info so people can see what a jerk this person is.
03-08-2009, 08:20 AM
Karen

Yes, we have known about this for quite some time. There are two previous threads about this, they are located here and here with more information. Despite numerous attempts we were unable to get the content removed.
03-08-2009, 08:52 AM
Zalensia

Ahh ok. Sorry for making another thread about it!
03-08-2009, 09:11 AM
Hellow

Yeah, we have known about this for a while.

Karen, have you tried contacting who the person registered the domain through?
03-08-2009, 09:43 AM
Zalensia

The person who has registered the domain has hidden their information (based on the whois I did today).
The best I've been able to do is find that it seems to be a reseller, originally by eNom via namecheap.com. Other than that the user is using whoisGuard to hide their identity and there seems to be no way around that.
03-08-2009, 01:59 PM
Hellow

I ran a whois (the linux command, more info than whois.com but the same service) on tendlife.com, the useful part of the output is below (there are no IPs in it, dont worry).

Code:

Domain Name: TENDLIFE.COM Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 23-jan-2009 Creation Date: 05-nov-2006 Expiration Date: 05-nov-2009

Farther down the output, I see that they use WhoisGuard, as you said. Perhaps you could contact Dreamhost, which is, pretty apparently, from a traceroute on them and a whois on their actual IP address, their hosting provider. Try contacting them through one of the following (still output from a whois on their IP address, i'm in love with that command):

Code:

OrgAbuseHandle: DAT5-ARIN OrgAbuseName: DreamHost Abuse Team OrgAbusePhone: +1-714-706-4182 OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected] OrgNOCHandle: ZD69-ARIN OrgNOCName: Network Operations OrgNOCPhone: +1-714-706-4182 OrgNOCEmail: [email protected] OrgTechHandle: MNA53-ARIN OrgTechName: Nagel, Mark OrgTechPhone: +1-714-706-4182 OrgTechEmail: [email protected]