Gaming-awards.com Plagiarism

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My friends at Pokerfuse discovered that their article had been copied.

Pokerfuse article:

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Gaming-awards article:

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Other examples:

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Gaming-awards just switched the article around in an article the next day:

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I searched the author's work in Copyscape and he is also copy/pasting paragraphs from Gambling 911 and AP articles but I do not have the full subscription so I only get limited results. If you are a writer then you may want to go to Copyscape with some of that site's articles. It looks like a widespread problem.

They have been contacted several times but have done nothing about it. From searching around I noticed that their awards show is promoted here so I thought I would share this.
 
The easiest way to punish them is to write to their histing company, and to Google.

And they will disappear shortly :)
 
It's funny about the LVRJ stealing your article since they were so big about having Righthaven file so many suits against affiliates for using stories they had previously published a year or so ago.
 
It's funny about the LVRJ stealing your article since they were so big about having Righthaven file so many suits against affiliates for using stories they had previously published a year or so ago.

LVRJ was the victim here, not me. The group I mention in the OP is still ripping off other people's content.

Here is the latest example:

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Notice the Pokerfuse article was published on Sept 21, 2012.

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The above post was copied word for word five months later without permission.

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This above article was taken from an AP report that was distributed through their network. Part of the T&Cs of publishing AP content is that you give them credit for the article, and still you must be a subscriber. I see no proof that they are a subscriber and they for sure do not credit AP.
 
Instead of chasing them via their host with DMCA's you can just cut them off the source Google! Use this www.google.com/dmca.html and report the URLs you want taken down. In addition, once Googles sees they have taken copyright actions against a domain, they will slap it severely with penalties. The more they continue to do this, the more links you can request to be taken down, the harsher Google will be.

At the end of the day, who's site isn't copied, scraped or plagiarized? I would worry only, if they outrank you or the original writer of the article. Otherwise I wouldn't bother, unless I really want to hurt them.

Hosts get paid (by their clients) therefore they will keep on asking the site owner to remove such problematic materials, but they won't shutdown the account (or at least most). God, I mean Google, doesn't care about that stuff and gives justice to all :). And without Google they are good as dead.
 
Instead of chasing them via their host with DMCA's you can just cut them off the source Google! Use this www.google.com/dmca.html and report the URLs you want taken down. In addition, once Googles sees they have taken copyright actions against a domain, they will slap it severely with penalties. The more they continue to do this, the more links you can request to be taken down, the harsher Google will be.

At the end of the day, who's site isn't copied, scraped or plagiarized? I would worry only, if they outrank you or the original writer of the article. Otherwise I wouldn't bother, unless I really want to hurt them.

Hosts get paid (by their clients) therefore they will keep on asking the site owner to remove such problematic materials, but they won't shutdown the account (or at least most). God, I mean Google, doesn't care about that stuff and gives justice to all :). And without Google they are good as dead.

Good advice, but by doing this Google will respond asking for evidence of the DMCA and legal paperwork in progress of your action. I know this from when I got a big adsense affiliate shutdown by Adsense after using the Google DMCA page. ( He was scraping the content from my football site ). Failing to provide this if and when requested, will mean any action taken by google will then be reversed.
 
Hmm things could have changed. When I submit a few websites copying, they replied that actions were taken and that the sites in question were removed from the listings.
 
My experience is that Google will not get involved in these types of disputes. I eventually discovered this group took one of my articles and published it in their Infinity Magazine as well as their website without permission. I discovered over 100 stolen articles. Casinomeister.com among the victims too.

I sent a DMCA to their host and my article was deleted and their magazine's online version was updated to remove my article, granted they mailed this magazine out to thousands of people. A number of other articles they used without permission were removed but some remain. I made dozens of screenshots.

They even had fictional authors. They made up two author names and took their images off stock photo sites.

The site owners were combative when I contacted them, vaguely threatening me with legal action for exposing their behavior. They finally stopped stealing content though.
 

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