Fair use is encouraged. For all other use, God kills a kitten.It seems that someone just lifted an entire post of mine. It's an odd situation, as they do provide attribution, but do not link back here. But rather than pointing to here, excerpting the bit they like, and suggesting readers RTWT, they scooped up the entire post and plunked it down on their site. Not cool.
The run ads, so they are making something (if not a lot) from this post. Not cool, again.
And there's no contact info, so I can't ask them to take it down. Very, very not cool.
Has anyone else run across MoneyTalks.net? Is this their standard operating procedure?
UPDATE 20 June 2011 19:33: It's not their standard procedure. I received a very apologetic email from Rob at MoneyTalks. He's updated his post to link here, and is actually spreading the link even further. Thanks for the very quick reply, Rob.
This is the way the Internet should work, in fact, with courtesy and quick updating to change what needs changing. The blogosphere is all about calling attention to what's interesting, spreading and commenting on it.
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If you go into his store:
https://www.strategicprofitsinc.com/spistore_woutlook/Cart/index.php?mid=565435541048532019On the bottom there is a contact button that gives you four(?) e-mail addresses.
The website says it's Michael Campbell's Money Talks. It links to Michael Campbell who seems to be a radio finance guru. I've not ever listened to him.
But he ahs a Facebook link, and if you make this known to him, he probably knows who does things on his website.
Good Luck
FYH
Or contact the hosting provider... http://www.floatingworld.ca/
Doing a whois on the domain gets us this:
Administrative contact:
Pagliaro, Catherine - ur2q88qk97j@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Technical contact:
Leeson, Mike - qy3a53uj2sf@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Based on the IP, it's hosted by Rackspace. I'd suggest sending a DMCA notice to abuse@rackspace.com
Here's a sample:
http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/07/06/sample-dmca-take-down-letter/id=4501/
Pat
Pat is correct... theft is theft...
http://www.cknw.com/Contact/MoneyTalks.aspx
I left them a polite comment referring them to this post.
If nothing else contacting the advertisers often works
The site is hosted on the Rackspace network. Rackspace has a page addressing filing copyright infringement notification.
My name is Robert Zurrer and I have immediately taken down your post
In no way was, or would what I did, be endorsed by Michael Campbell.
I clearly made a mistake. I apologize greatly.
Is there anything I can do to make up for my error?
Rob
Rob, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
I actually don't mind if you excerpt from the post (fair use, after all), as long as you link back here.
I gotta say that after watching the BS and Drama on the Breda Pic issue The Moneytalks response and speed addressing this is refreshing
Absolutely, I will post a paragraph and link it back to your website. Further, I will put that paragraph in our upcoming newsletter in an attempt to drive as much traffic to your site to atone for my error. - Rob
My takeaway: Rob is a good guy and MoneyTalks is probably worth reading since they have demonstrated they have the dangerous good smarts to read Borepatch. :-)
Hey, it worked out! Glad they were so positive.
*THAT* is how it should work. Kudos to Borepatch *and* Money Talks for handling things the right way.
Very nice response, wish more responded that way!
So does this mean that God made the kitten come back to life? ;-)
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