I often do keyword searches on the major search engines to determine my current position within them. I noticed that docstoc was embedding .pdf files I had created. Not only were they using my bandwidth, they were redirecting the internal links within the .pdf file to their own site.
How is this anything other than…
A.) BANDWIDTH THEFT
B.) COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
C.) OUTRIGHT LINK THEFT
Outrageous!
I sent them an email, and they removed the content, but what balls! Now I often use the meta information from websites to display information regarding websites I may or may not be linking to.
The difference is, META information is intended for use by bots. PDF files that authors create were never intended to be embedded and have their links redirected to another website. I would imagine someone will be suing the hell out of docstoc fairly quickly.
Anyone else have experience with the same problem from this website???
***Update***
As it turns out, they have a ton of additional files from my website embedded in their website. What’s the difference in my putting an Iframe in my website and redirecting their links with JavaScript? Not freakin’ much I can tell you, and anyone with any REASONABILITY will easily see it.
I’ve had to make an additional requests to them, and will let you know how it turns out.
They took some of my copyrighted material, too. Selling ads against it so they’re making money off of my work.
When I filled in their response form the first time, it gave me an error message.
I searched around the site, found their e-mail address to complain, and got a bizarre reply, saying I not only needed to fill out a DMCA notice, I should track down their user for them, join their community, engage their readers, blah blah — they sent me a marketing pitch instead of doing the right thing!
A quick look around the Web shows they’re attracting a lot of copyright infringement complaints.
I would twitter about it if I was you, I did, and didn’t get any answer from the cowards.
I have a question here. is there anyone here who can tell me how many back link should i have every day without being banned by google?
I would think that you can get as many as you want. However, you want to try to get them with sites that are (similar subjects) to your own. But I’ve read, 10 – 15 by “EXPERTS” but it’s hard to get that many to begin with, so that’s why I SAY AS MANY AS YOU CAN.