Comments on: Lord Give Me A Sign ** edited April 17

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By: Loretta Humphrey-Cruz

Loretta Humphrey-Cruz — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:36:03 +0000

I’m so new to blogging I can’t think of anything that you can do to stop a bum like that. Is there anything Word Press can do? It’s obviously and blatantly copyright infringement, it’s horrible and it seems they could close the blog down.

By: mistresscorpio

mistresscorpio — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:33:38 +0000

Bella,

My husband has had to slap down three spam bloggers stealing his content in the one year his site existed. This link provided most of what he needed in order to get them to stop: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

By: djeneen

djeneen — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:42 +0000

bella – please pursue all the options you have to make them stop. creativity is a gift…and shouldn’t be hijacked. there is a site you may know about already – http://www.copyscape.com . You can type in pages/sites you produced and it will do a preliminary check of the web to see if your content is elsewhere. you’ve officially hit the big time on the web now!

By: jerseybred

jerseybred — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:08:11 +0000

Afrobella, do what you need to do to stop this madness and do not let this get you down. You can fight this and win!

By: umich girl

umich girl — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:43:03 +0000

i am sorry to hear what has happened to you afrobella… but people out there are ridiculous… i have a friend whose entire myspace pae was copied, there is another girl out there pretending to be her… people need to learn to love themselves

By: bella

bella — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:29:20 +0000

Nina, Nova, all of you who have offered help and words of encouragement, thank you. I have sent a second cease and desist letter to these people, and am consulting with a lawyer. My next step is to contact the blog company. And now back to your regularly scheduled Afrobella!

By: Nina

Nina — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:41:13 +0000

This post made me come out of my lurk-hood. I am a ethnically diverse girl (Greek/white/Latina w/ freckles) that has a powerful, red, naturally curly afro that I love! For those that are ignorant out there…afros are not race specific. I have enough hair relaxer disasters, curly hair woes and frizzy tangles that anybody, regardless of skin color, may have. Afrobella Rocks! You have saved me from buying the wrong products over ten times!

I absolutely LOVE your blog and I’m saddened that this has happened to you. Is the offender a website or a blog?

Steps you can take (if it’s a website or a Movable Type blog set-up):
1. Go to GoDaddy.com and enter the domain name of the copyright violator. http://www…..com It will say this domain is taken – so click to find out by who.

2. Then check and see who the nameservers belong to. This will help you determine who is the webhost.

3. Then go to the web host’s website and Contact them. Let them know that your copyright is being violated.

If they are an American or EU web host (and not hosted in some kind of shady location), they will pull down the offending website within 24 hours to protect themselves from any potential lawsuits that you can bring against them.

Unfortunately, if the blog is hosted in a foreign country that has NO internet or electronic commerce laws, you’re stuck. Sad but true.

If it’s a blog company like Blogger, Typepad, etc. contact them directly and they will remove it as well.

You can also block the offending IP address from visiting your website by contacting your webhost but I don’t know if that works with blogs.

Anyway… hope I’ve been of some help. Keep posting girl!