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July 9, 2008 No comment

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge expands when it is shared.

The world goes ahead when knowledge is shared.

These are very popular sayings, to which we all unanimously agree. How do you feel, when you spend long back breaking hours into creating new knowledge or a content about something, and then you find it has been stolen? Can you forgive the thieves then, thinking “knowledge expands…?’ You simply cannot. You just cannot accept the practice of intellectual theft. You create something original, and some thief just steals and uses your intellectual products, and reproduces them as if it was their own creation.

You put the effort, and someone reaps the benefits from it.

As an author of a piece of work, be it writing, drama, music, art, or whatever, you are entitled to the copyright of the material. This means that no one can reproduce, distribute, display or perform your works without your consent, or the consent of the person authorized by you. But due to easy accessibility of written materials through the usage of internet, a lot of literary works get stolen by immoral people who are referred to as “Internet Thieves”.

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How do the internet thieves steal?

The internet thieves steal in the following ways:

• Copying blocks of your original writing and pasting it in their own work;
• Using images, graphics, and artwork as well, without mentioning about you anywhere;
• Making anonymous queries to the original authors, to gather further information on the stolen product to establish their pool of readers ;
• Using RSS Feed converters to save your legitimate work, and selling them to interested buyers;
• Literally duplicating your site by stealing layout, design, contents, links everything. This is known as ‘hijacking’.

How can you prevent content theft?

These are some of the steps that you can take to protect your intellectual products/contents and trace the internet thieves:

• Set Google alerts related to key phrases of your contents;
• Use Copyscape to detect plagiarism, if you feel that your content has been copied. Just enter your web address for the published matter, and Copyscape will look for copies of that content throughout the web. Copyscape uses colors to highlight parts of the content that has been copied.
• Add copyright message to your RSS feeds.
• Create a thread of exclusive characters called ‘fingerprint’ for your feed, to help you identify your content through plagiarism searches like Google Alerts or Copyscape.
• Make use of AntiLeech WordPress Plugin to detect sploggers with a fake content;
• Create off-beat file names to search your stolen content.
• Use latest internet thief hunting devices like Thief finder, RSS signature, Tag Right etc.
• Implement services like Ice Rocket, RSS Footer, Copysentry, Feelimage to locate your stolen contents.

Anything you post to the web, the chances of your hard back breaking effort getting stolen always remain. To stop this, you need to learn about it. And to learn, you need to know where to look. Do not look further. Click at UniqueEbook.com to provide you with all the necessary services to help you protect your content from getting stolen.

Knowledge expands, and is good only when it is shared in a proper and moral way.

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