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How to stop competitor from stealing my content?

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jamesedwards399

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Oct 8, 2013
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I noticed that my website has been scraped by someone and there is showing some spam bots. Can anyone suggest me how to get over from this situation?
 
First hi and welcome to the family.

Can you give some more details?

What are the kind of bots you notice? Perhaps you can post some examples of your web logs.

It might help to know what the site is running on (i mean is it a wordpress, phpbb based site etc).
 
How to stop competitor from stealing my content?

I want a hard proof protection for my business website because I noticed one of my competitor tried to steal my website content.
 
If someone can see it on their computer screen, they can download it and use it - the root of the problem is that your competitor is dishonest. I'd tackle that first.

If it's a business expense, you can write off any legal fees.
 
mwa said:
If someone can see it on their computer screen, they can download it and use it - the root of the problem is that your competitor is dishonest. I'd tackle that first.

If it's a business expense, you can write off any legal fees.
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Agreed. Legal action seems like your best bet.
 
Unclear what the OP is getting at.

What I mean is that "a competitor" "trying to steal content" doesn't mean much.

Specifically, what happened?

* How did you know it was a competitor?
* What content was "stolen?"
* How do you differentiate between content being viewed and content being stolen?

If the OP thinks the competition won't look at his website... I have news for him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence
 
jamesedwards399 said:
I want a hard proof protection for my business website because I noticed one of my competitor tried to steal my website content.
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You can't stop a competition from 'stealing' your content, look and feel, branding, etc. However, in some cases, you may be able to sue them for damages after the fact. However, in order to sue you will need to have taken some steps first. Did you register your name? Did you trademark those aspects of your branding that can be trademarked? etc etc

Then again... what you may consider "stealing" may not be seen as such under the law. This all assumes you are both in the same jurisdiction. If your competition is in another jurisdiction it may be nearly impossible to do anything, in a practical sense.

Welcome to the wild west of the internet. I say that with sympathy, not sarcasm... Hard to convey in text...
 
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