Thanks to a lot of commenters and personal emails, we have been alerted to a site that has stolen content from the House of Annie blog and many others. Compare the two screenshots below:
Scraper’s site
House of Annie site
I am extremely upset to see my work posted on someone else’s site, because I have put in hundreds of hours building our site only to see someone else just come and copy our posts to their site. (Okay, they didn’t just copy — they also edited each post to take out our signatures and also changed the internal links to point to their site.)
Because this “scraper” blog is hosted on Blogspot / Blogger (Google), there are a couple of things you can do to report it. If this blog has stolen content from your site, file a DMCA report to Google. The URL for the online report is
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=blogger_dmca_infringment
For the rest of you dear readers who are just plain mad and would like to do something about it, report the blog as Spam by going to
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=spam&hl=en&blog_ID=&blog_URL=
and entering
http://hot-kitchen.blogspot.com
in the text box.
Hopefully Google will investigate and take this site down.
To the scraper who stole our content, I leave this haiku:
I wish you would get
A hundred thousand bug bites
Where the sun don’t shine
Aloha, Nate
Update Oct 6, 2009: DMCA report submitted to Google. We’ll see how long it takes to get the site taken down.
Update Oct 7, 2009: Google has taken down the site! Hot-kitchen has gone cold.
LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU BLOG THIEVES!
