{"id":325,"date":"2007-01-25T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/325"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:39:07","slug":"copied-website-what-can-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/technology-articles\/copied-website-what-can-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Copied Your Website &#8211; What Can You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The copied domain is here &#8211; www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here &#8211; www.webpositionexpert.com.<\/p>\n<p>The original site is a friend with a business in Antigua, while the content and design thief is apparently named Robert Soloway, and is in my back yard, up in Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>I googled his name, and this guy has apparently ticked off a lot of people. There&#8217;s a lot of information about him on the web, and someone even registered the domain name <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solowaysucks.net\/\">Solowaysucks.net<\/a> with links to his other misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to help him remove the duplicate content from the Google index (yes, it&#8217;s in there) I sent him here, to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/contact\/spamreport.html\">report an offender to Google<\/a>. They&#8217;re usually pretty quick to react to stuff like this in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>He also had another question of legality, and while we were IM&#8217;ing each other, I ran across this excellent explanation of his options. If someone ever steals your content, this is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loriswebs.com\/stop-stolen-content.html\">great reference page<\/a> to review.  Nice Job, Lori, (and I see you&#8217;re in our backyard too, up in Spokane, Wa.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere. The copied domain is here &#8211; www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here &#8211; www.webpositionexpert.com. 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