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Wichita Kansas Man Involved in Alleged Internet Content Theft

Is this is the face of a content thief?  Structuredsettlements.gylnnsbusiness dot com, a website registered to Curtis MIller of "Internet Marketer" Gylnnns Ventures/ Miller Enterprises of 130 S. Charles St. , #2  Wichita Kansas** has, in multiple instances,  included plagiarism of virtually the entire content from several blog posts from Structured Settlements 4Real and other websites without authorization or attribution. Miller's website also includes multiple instances of unauthorized usage of animated gifs for which the owners of Structured Settlements 4Real have paid a license fee. Has Miller paid the licensing fee?

Particularly troubling about Mr. Miller's website is that the content was not simply acquired by feed, but selected posts were plagiarized , underscoring the scienter involved.

The apparent motivation for Mr. Miller is to profit from Google Adsense ads placed around the plagiarized content. It's one of the oldest Internet tricks in the book.

The problem with the actions of plagiarizers is that search engines may penalize credible content as spam when multiple instances occur of the exact same content.Unless original content owners take action against the likes of Curtis Miller the dishonest business practice will continue.

Content owners have rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to go after companies that host infringing content. A DMCA complaint has been filed with the hosting company and this author will inform the licensors of the animations of the copyright infringement.

Mr. Miller's LinkedIn profile suggests that Miller Enterprises engages in Internet marketing. "Nice example" here fella!

NOTE: This post is intended to be educational to those who write content and by the exposure, both a warning and deterrent to those who are intellectually dishonest, or too lazy to write their own material.

** according to public records Curtis Miller, with the same cell number, 316-833-4819, is also the registrant of other websites with a listed address of 425 Delaware Edna, Kansas

Postscript May 2, 2010. The hosting company has notified this author that it has removed the infringing website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Settledmoney.com Scraper Site Is NOT Affiliated With Structured Settlements 4Real

Over the past few weeks we have noticed that our copyrighted content was regularly appearing on a site called settledmoney.com. Settledmoney.com also used our category headings and the confusion was such that I heard from several friends who questioned me about it  because the site claims to be about money now-one of my favorite targets of late.

The settledmoney.com site is owned by someone whose name, or pseudonym is Jesse James of Austin Texas. The site is registered through Godaddy.com and hosted on servers at dimesnionsystem.com in a Pennsylvania location eerily close to the folks from Bryn Mawr although no connection has been made at this time.

This author sent a cease and desist notice to Mr. James and also informed Godaddy's copyright complaint area as well as a similar department at Google. The owner of Settledmoney.com had positioned himself to profit off my content through the placement of Google Adsense ads on pages featuring my content, which again was not authorized.

This evening I received the following email from Mr. James.

From: "Jesse James"
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:29:44 -0500
To: 'structures'<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Attention "Jesse James"

John -

 

I was not aware that this site was using your content. I acquired it some time ago 'as is' and was told that all the content was source. Upon further investigation, I learned that there is some plugin that essentially 'scrapes' content from various sites. Yours was on the list among others. I have personally gone in and deleted all content (I believe) that was created from that plugin.

 

I apologize for the hassle.

 

Jesse

With the cooperation of Mr.James an investigation is ongoing as to who told Mr. James that the content was "source".

This author takes plagiarism of his or his company's content very seriously. Those who do not have the time, skill or intellectual capacity to produce original written content  (or who are just too frickin' lazy) will not be permitted to benefit financially from stealing the content from those that do.

My experience should be a lesson to others. You have to pay attention to your content to be able to tackle these pests! Scraped content could affect your search engine rankings so again pay attention.

No Link, No Attribution Equals Retribution for Internet Content Scrapers

To be sure, chiropractor turned search engine optimizer, turned "cash now for legal advance" hustler Jason Argall of Clearwater Florida  has a few good qualities. What a sweet son he is- he attests to his Mommy's chiropractic excellence on Linked In.

Jason Argall is also an Internet content scraper. Internet content scrapers are, in my opinion, the lowest of the low in that they take other people's original content and claim it as their own, without attribution and without a link to the original content. Some do it out of laziness or inability to articulate, while others do it for a profit motive. Either way it's dishonest.

To all you SEO punks like Jason Argall out there, you may want to heed the following mantra:

No Link,No Attribition= Retribution

Link to the scaped content
Download Structured-Settlements-Annuity.com.pdf scraped from our 10/2/2008 posts

Whois record for Structured-Settlements-Annuity.com
Download coolwhois.com - WHOIS searc.. Structured-Settlements-Annuity.pdf

Before writing this post I attempted to call Argall, but an attempt to call the number listed in his Whois record resulted in a recording that the number does not accept incoming calls.