When you're searching for article thefts, don't forget to search the first few words of your summary. Some thieves lift that as well.
Great idea one of the posters here gave me: leave part of each paragraph off, using ellipses to indicate there's more. This means the thief would have to make up missing content for every paragraph, but the legitimate buyer still get a pretty good idea about what you're trying to say.
warning to authors
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Re: warning to authors
Exactly what I do - leave off a section in the middle or end of the paragraph mid sentence.The (... section removed for preview) needs to be removed by the thief and they need to make up content or the paragraph will read like it's stolen.
Re: warning to authors
Problem is, now somehow thieves seem to be stealing articles that don't even show the full article in the summary...but somehow they are still getting the full article. Not sure how this is happening, but they have obviously found a way to bypass the summary portion and get the full article.
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Re: warning to authors
Is it possible that some of you are using improperly secured laptops, and they're getting it that way? This hasn't happened to me so far, knock on wood, but I'm a dinosaur who does all my work on a wired computer.