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Tutorial: How To Have Fun With Lazy Content Stealers

I have Google Alerts set up so anytime my name is mentioned it will email me with a link to where it's located. This morning I got a message saying my name was listed here. (Update, as soon as I was about done with this post they deleted their post - screen capture below). It's a complete copy of my previous post. This isn't that big of a deal and the tutorial is everywhere across the web now. I realized the person was so lazy that he/she didn't even bother to host their own images. Instead they were linking to my images. This is just pure laziness. If you're going to steal content, at least save the images to your own hosting, and take the person's name off your post. Or you can do the correct thing and email the original writer for permission, or do a partial bit about the post and then link to the original post (be the middle-man).

The end result is that I got to have a little fun. :)
I changed each image so that when read vertically it says the following:

"It's Not Cool
at all
to steal content
from other people.
If you're going to
steal content
at least host your own images.
P.S. - This could say worse things
thanks :)"

The lesson here is to create your own content and then share links to the content that is already created.

Below is the before and after.
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After:

click on

And another part of their website:
click on


Comments (21)

Apr 26, 2010
Stephanie M. Cockerl liked this post.
Apr 27, 2010
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Apr 27, 2010
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Apr 27, 2010
Natalie said...
Brilliant!
Apr 27, 2010
Eddy Fahmi liked this post.
Apr 27, 2010
Scott Cooper said...
Wow. They removed it now, but your handiwork lives on in cached results: http://j.mp/SiteCached
Apr 27, 2010
Lalla (Laurel H) Porter liked this post.
Apr 27, 2010
Chris Suspect said...
In addition to the cache issues, the only other problem I see with this is that after you alter the images you have to reload new ones to your own site - meaning the originals with new URLs. This could become a pain if you have a lot of content thieves to deal with.

This is amusing nonetheless and should work fine with persistent thieves.

Now I am off to go post some original content :)

Apr 27, 2010
Pocholo Peralta said...
Bravo Nick. That was a great rant lol.
I've also experienced this one time and I'm not sure
if it's going on.
Apr 28, 2010
Su Butcher said...
Congratulations Nick on an excellent post - imitation etc...
Apr 28, 2010
Excellent!!! Thanks Nick! =D
Apr 29, 2010
Ben Menson liked this post.
May 01, 2010
baggz yue said...
w0w niiiice...... good article
May 03, 2010
Nicholas Patten said...
Thanks :)
May 03, 2010
Stephen Scott said...
someone aint happy you used their images if you check your post...
May 04, 2010
Nicholas Patten said...
Stephen,
You might be confused. Someone used my images on their site so I changed my images to something else to make the post they copied pointless. This post was to show how to get rid of content stealers who are too lazy to host their own images.
May 06, 2010
Whyte23 said...
Nicholas...too funny i had someone use my title content ..to say the least I was too happy at first. But, then I got over it due to so many people are not creative to come up with there own idea's, art work concepts, impression of own thoughts. Love your piece!

Thank you for sharing

May 15, 2010
Horia Dragomir liked this post.
May 17, 2010
flippinsg said...
Ha, way to get those scrapers!
May 29, 2010
paul bunk said...
Hahaaaa, thank you ;-) I've had this problem on a site of a friend of mine for years and i'm going to send him your solution.

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