Monday, February 28, 2011

Thief

Fellow bloggers, you might want to look at rodmanpoker.com and see if they are stealing your posts the same way they are stealing mine. Predictably, there is no contact information, so nobody to complain to.

Thanks to HighOnPoker for alerting me to this.



Update

I wrote to the site owner and asked him what he was doing. He replied: "Sorry Ill remove it.. I was just messing around with auto blogs.. I don't even have any ads on the sites.. sorry about that." And, in fact, it does appear that the site has now removed the material.

10 comments:

Jennifer said...

Wow, these people have no shame!

Anonymous said...

You should put a 'poker grump' watermark (or some derivative) on your photos.

gadzooks64 said...

Check out the Who Is lookup:

Who Is

gadzooks64 said...

Check out the Who Is lookup.

Anonymous said...

hope it helps

Registrant:
dustin cal
BOX 248 7569 GOLDEN SPUR TRAIL
ANGLEMONT, British Columbia V0E 1A0
Canada

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: RODMANPOKER.COM
Created on: 24-Oct-09
Expires on: 24-Oct-11
Last Updated on: 04-Feb-11

Administrative Contact:
cal, dustin d_c_8@hotmail.com
BOX 248 7569 GOLDEN SPUR TRAIL
ANGLEMONT, British Columbia V0E 1A0
Canada
+1.7783883424

Technical Contact:
cal, dustin d_c_8@hotmail.com
BOX 248 7569 GOLDEN SPUR TRAIL
ANGLEMONT, British Columbia V0E 1A0
Canada
+1.7783883424

Snuffy said...

Why would anyone want to do this when they don't appear to be monetizing it through ads or poker room links?

Jennifer said...

Looks like they removed all content. Not one thing on the site was original. I have such a hard time believing that people don't understand how wrong it is to plagiarize.

gadzooks64 said...

Snuffy and I actually had somebody we know start an aggregation site not unlike that one and use our content.

Again, there was no monetization on the site that I could find but I'm sure that's where it was going.

I mentioned it up in a Skype conversation while we were playing the tour and the guy who made it was at least big enough to admit he did it. I explained to him that people don't like somebody else profiting from their writing and/or using their intellectual property without attribution. Either way it is a bad thing.

Jordan said...

I'm glad you were able to work it out.

Short-Stacked Shamus said...

Dude is at it again, it appears. I just got a note pointing me to his site, and once more he's cut/paste my content.