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I have a continuing problem with people stealing text content from my website. When I run my text through plagiarism checkers online, I usually find one or two people at a time who have blatantly stolen the text right off my site, not even bothering to change the wording or even the punctuation one little bit!
I know how to look up who owns the site, and where it's hosted. I try to take an educational tactic - I email the artist/company, explain to them that it's my content - here - here- and here...and that it hurts their page ranking on Google too...it's actually not good for them either for our text to be duplicated.
Sometimes the stolen website text gets changed right away and I even get an apology, sometimes they do the changes but grudgingly. Sometimes (from sites outside USA) I am completely ignored.
I have considered disabling the right-click/copy/paste by putting code in my site, but I don't think that works if someone is determined to cut and paste, there are ways they know to get around the right-click disabling, and a lot of site users like to use the right-click function to navigate. So that's why I haven't put in the right click disable code.
There are services like Copyscape, where you can pay $5 a month for Copyscape to monitor all the content of your site, and they'll send an email whenever it's found that someone's copying your content. I am considering this, but it would still mean contacting and following up to make sure the content has been changed.
So for now, what I do is just keep changing my content, change the wording so it won't match the text that has been stolen from my site. At least my site will get updated often with new text. It's easier and quicker for me to not try to be the internet police. I'd rather spend my time doing art. I think what's hurtful about it is that I would help any artist who wanted or asked for help.
Have you experienced a problem with plagiarism of your website, and if so, have you tried to do anything about it, and have you found any solutions that work? Have you ever had someone steal your art images? What did you do about it?
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