Internet Marketing – Copyright Thief Exposed!

Hello,

Well today I have something very different to the positive information and encouragement that I normally post for you. Today I am going to expose copyright theft and NAME a copyright thief. Yep. This person has really PISSED me off!

This is not just an infringement against me. It’s an infringement against EVERY author who posts their articles and e-books and other written material on the Internet. It should be a BIG CONCERN for every author of unique material.

But first, the proof…

A lady (Anna) emailed me overnight telling me this…

“Dear Sir

I believe that your article The Benefit of Having a Goal Worth Failing For has been stolen by author LeeDavidhcz. Perhaps others have been stolen by this person as well.

So far, every single article I have checked out by LeeDavidhcz has been stolen.

To check these, I put quotation marks around the title of the article and then typed in LeeDavidhcz and that is how I see many hundreds of articles come up that were stolen.”

Just ONE of LeeDavidhcz’s copyright thefts concerns this article http://ezinearticles.com/?id=72770 which I wrote on September 19, 2005. It’s called “The Benefit of Having a Goal Worth Failing For.” If you click that link and scan down the page you will see that it has been viewed 977 times and it has a 5/5 star rating. So, it’s a fairly popular article.

Now look at this: http://www.articlesjust4you.com/Article/The-Benefit-of-Having-a-Goal-Worth-Failing-For/108507 – it is an EXACT duplicate of MY article with two important exceptions:

1 – My name has been removed and the name LeeDavidhcz has been added as the author (He is NOT the author. I am and I can prove it).
2 – The “Resource Box” that every author uses to link back to their site or blog has been removed.

So… LeeDavidhcz (or the person who this represents – ie the person who actually did this) is a COPYRIGHT THIEF!

Now, before I go on, I’m just going to take a screenshot of LeeDavidhcz’s “handiwork” – just in case it is mysteriously moved or removed and the link goes dead before I can act against LeeDavidhcz. I have also taken a print of this and I have asked several other independent people to do the same.

I’m quite sure that when Christopher Knight created www.ezinearticles.com that he did not intend for his wonderful article site to become a repository to be plundered by thieves. It is from Ezine Articles that this fraudster has taken the articles. Article theft is rampant and has been for a long time.

Why do copyright thieves like LeeDavidhcz do this? Simple. They do it for money. They surround high traffic articles with Google Adsense ads in the hope that some of the traffic will bleed off to them (thereby diluting the author’s organic traffic). Anyone clicking on one of those Adsense Ads then puts a few cents into the accounts of the LeeDavidhcz’s of this world. Essentially, they are making money through fraud.

Now, here is what I am gonna do:

1 – Inform Google about what LeeDavidhcz is doing and get his dirty little Adsense account closed. I will also follow this up with Google’s Digital Millenium Copyrighting Act litigation team. [NOTE: This has now been done - see reply below:]

2 – Inform the www.articles4you.com site owner (whoever that is) that LeeDavidhcz has breached their copyright TOS and the International Copyright Convention of Berne as set down in 1886 and accepted as the worldwide standard and the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty.

3 – Pursue the identity behind the pseudonym LeeDavidhcz for copyright theft.

Last time I looked, copyright theft was a serious crime. LeeDavidhcz is only doing it to make money by defrauding me and, no doubt, many others.

Now, if www.articles4you.com do not ban LeeDavidhcz’s account and remove all his copyright theft then I will just move up the ISP chain to the host of www.articles4you.com. It’s easy enough to find out. And I will keep moving up the hosting chain until I get to a BIG player in the game.

So, I invite the OWNER of www.articles4you.com to come here and make a statement that he or she will act upon the “account” of LeeDavidhcz and close this thief’s account and remove all his theft from their site.

Here’s another big piece of PROOF against you LeeDavidhcz… you see, you are such a LAZY copyright thief that you didn’t even notice that the article that I wrote stated:

One of my short stories “The Power of Choice” is now in e-book format. This story has been sent from my various websites to thousands of people in dozens and dozens of countries all over the world. It has received remarkable accolades from so many people from as far as the UK to Iceland to Canada to the USA. I have pages and pages of emails from people telling me how the story affected them in such a positive manner.

Did YOU write Power of Choice too did you LeeDavidhcz? I suppose that’s why it has MY name on it and is sitting right here on MY blog.

Watch out LeeDavidhcz – YOU have committed an international crime here and I am on your case!

PS: If you manage to find your way here LeeDavidhcz then read this – http://www.google.com/dmca.html You are in BIG trouble now. Have fun spending the last of your ill-gotten Google Adsense money you FRAUD!

PS2: I have tried to find a decent contact for www.articles4you.com but so far every link I have found is dead. Maybe a PING from this blog will alert whoever owns it to come here and tell me what they intend to do about this. I have FAR better things to do with my time but I am SAVAGE about this.

Filed under: Gary Simpson • Google Adsense • copyright • copyright crime • copyright theft • copyright thief • internet marketing • plagiarism

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