Constant Content

Hi,

I purchased full right for "Recovering From a Bad Trade" article on September 9 but the article carrying a different title was published on August 10.

http://bigblow.net/everybody-makes-mist ... o-recover/

I was wondering if you could help explain how ithenticate did not pick this up and how my purchase is not Unique.

I emailed this same message to CC and my account manager but received no response.

Thank you for your time.

Anthony

I created that article and sold it on September 9 to a buyer named "Anthony." I did not create an article with the title "Everyone Makes Mistakes" as shown in the link. Normally I would say this is another theft. I don't know why iauthenticate didn't catch it. What is strange is that the August title also bears the name "Anthony." Morevover, this poster's username does not match the username of the purchaser who bought the article from me. If I can get clear evidence that the August post is not from the same Anthony who bought the article, I will start proceedings to have the apparently plagiarized article taken down.

What is frightening about this is that the entire article appears. I did not post the entire article on cc, but somehow the thieves are getting the entire article. Several people have reported this on this forum. I write on a wired computer, so it is apparent that these articles are being hacked somehow. I will no longer post articles to my public site until someone at cc does something about this. In the meantime, I will write to private requests to writer J.E. Carpenter. I will lose money by not posting public articles, but I cannot in good conscience continue to offer public articles when it is clear that cc's security is being breached.

The articles may have been stolen afterward and backdated when posted to a blog. I've backdated blog posts before. Of course, I didn't steal the writing that I posted...

I think it's pretty obvious. Agree with what Stephanie said. The article wasn't stolen from CC, but from the new owner of the work. This is so sneaky. The thief thinks he'll be safe by showing he published it first and assumes the article will get better Google-juice than the article dated later, but it doesn't work that way. I think the new owner may have a tough time trying to get this guy to remove his article. So dirty.

As it turns out, my customer is the one who made the forum post, but he used a different username for some reason. He did not, however, make the blog post--he says if you scroll over his name, you see a different name associated with the post. So I agree--I think this is a clear case of theft from the customer and not cc, which is why I'm not pursuing it. But this makes it difficult fot cc, because they might spend a lot of time pursuing things that look like thefts from them, when they're really thefts after sale that are backdated.

I've never heard of this happening before, but if hoodlums can find a way, they will. It's the world we live in now and it's certainly the world of the Interwebs. Sadly, new "ideas' like this catch on.