EasyOnlineConference are bastards and thieves

These bastards at EasyOnlineConference have added my RSS feed to their system, and for the past weeks all my content is redistributed on their site. My Creative Commons license clearly says NON COMMERCIAL. Their site is heavily subsidized with advertising which violates this licence. This is NO WAY on their site to contact them as their site has comments blocked, no email for contact etc.

Why am I pissed ? I spend a LOT of time writing up my content. It is not meant for other people to make money off it. Some sites such as neteco.com or memeorandum.tech also redistribute my content, but they have asked for permission.

I remember a discussion on Jason Calacanis’ blog recently who had the same issue. Mike Arrington on Techcrunch (can’t find the link) had the same issue of people stealing content. I remember vaguely someone recommending writing to abuse@[theirISP] which I’m doing right now.

Stuff like this is bound to happen to all of us. It’s going to be as bad as spam. And worse of all, whenever I do an ego search (looking for links to my posts), I get THEM for a few pages before any relevant link.

And of course they use a number of domains, including for instance www.onlinemeetingsolutions.com.

Guys, I’m not kidding, this is a cease-and-desist post. You are bastards and thieves. The funny thing is that this post will show up automatically on their sites… with this title. I’ve already mentionned the problem here.

A WHOIS gives:

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: EASYONLINECONFERENCE.COM
   Created on: 09-Aug-05
   Expires on: 09-Aug-06
   Last Updated on: 09-Aug-05

Administrative Contact:
   Private, Registration  [email protected]
   Domains by Proxy, Inc.
   DomainsByProxy.com
   15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
   Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
   United States
   (480) 624-2599

and also:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
   Domain Name: ONLINEMEETINGSOLUTIONS.COM
      Created on: 09-Aug-05
      Expires on: 09-Aug-06
      Last Updated on: 09-Aug-05

This is the message I just left on godaddy.com’s site on their contact forum. I hope they are serious people and contact them to stop this abuse, or just shut them down.

 

Hello, the sites easyonlineconference.com and onlinemeetingsolutions.com are redistributing my content (posts from my blog) without my permission on their sites that are clearly commercial sporting both sponsoring and googleads. This is agains my creative commons license of NON Commercial.
There is NO way to contact them on their site. Both sites were registered through godaddy.com. Can you please contact them and tell them to stop this, or take any adequate measure ? Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Rodrigo Sepulveda.