Stealing my content for SEO Spam?

[Hammer]

So you're equating using some text from your site as content theft? Sorry but you lost me. First of all, if he did copy text from your page it would be copyright infringement and plagiarism but I wouldn't call that content theft. Second, maybe I'm dense, but I don't see where you posted the text that he copied from your site.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Hammer

So you're equating using some text from your site as content theft? Sorry but you lost me. First of all, if he did copy text from your page it would be copyright infringement and plagiarism but I wouldn't call that content theft. Second, maybe I'm dense, but I don't see where you posted the text that he copied from your site.

Uh ... text is content too homie.

I will try to get some more info to explain it better in a little bit.

Maybe it will help explain a little better by saying they are using "Cloaking" which is black hat SE spam and they stole my content to do it.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by KevinG

Uh ... text is content too homie.

I will try to get some more info to explain it better in a little bit.

Maybe it will help explain a little better by saying they are using "Cloaking" which is black hat SE spam and they stole my content to do it.

If you had an erotic story site I'd agree that the text could be considered content but if someone takes text from a cigar site to use on their own site, I don't consider that 'content'. But I'm not trying to get off on a side discussion about a word's definition, I'm just trying to understand because I'm lost so far.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Hammer

If you had an erotic story site I'd agree that the text could be considered content but if someone takes text from a cigar site to use on their own site, I don't consider that 'content'. But I'm not trying to get off on a side discussion about a word's definition, I'm just trying to understand because I'm lost so far.

You're cracking me up.

So, an erotic story is content, but an original article about cigars is not content?

How do you figure that?

Let's put it into the adult world.

What if someone copy / pasted an original review of a porn site from one of the review sites, like The Best Porn or Sir Rodney and used it for their own site's benefit?

That's not stealing content?

Everything on http://www.cigar-review.com is original content.

[Hammer]

Have you ever heard of anyone that plagiarized a famous book being accused of stealing content? If someone builds a website to promote their website design business and they plagiarize text from my site, no, I would not say they stole my content.

In the case of an erotic story site, the stories on that site were written for the express reason of making money from people that paid to read those stories, so someone could consider those stories to be "content" but an article about cigars is simply an article about cigars.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Have you ever heard of anyone that plagiarized a famous book being accused of stealing content? If someone builds a website to promote their website design business and they plagiarize text from my site, no, I would not say they stole my content.

In the case of an erotic story site, the stories on that site were written for the express reason of making money from people that paid to read those stories, so someone could consider those stories to be "content" but an article about cigars is simply an article about cigars.

Ok. Cool.

That will save me time when I do my new site to sell design and stuff. Thanks for letting me paste text from Porn Site Pros. You're a good friend.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by KevinG

Ok. Cool.

That will save me time when I do my new site to sell design and stuff. Thanks for letting me paste text from Porn Site Pros. You're a good friend.

I never said you shouldn't be angry at someone if they plagiarized your site and used text from your articles, I simply said I wouldn't consider that stealing 'content'.

What would help me understand right now would be to drop the semantics argument and see the text as it appears on your site and as it appears where they used it. I'm not saying you don't have a point, I'm just having a hard time following it. And other than venting about it, is there a solution to this kind of thing? Since Tinderbox is a U.S. company, is it worth contacting them about and pursuing if they tell you to fuck off?