Comments on: Bitacle’s Excuses

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:01:04 +0000

I don’t care what they call it, they are stealing from me. I hope Google takes action, they are violating several of their guidelines.

By: PlagiarismToday » Bitacle Debacle

PlagiarismToday » Bitacle Debacle — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:36:04 +0000

[...] Furthermore, all of those services obey the standards of the robots.txt file, something that Bitacle reportedly does not. [...]

By: Fake Rake

Fake Rake — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:14:09 +0000

Ah, thanks. I’ve reported sites with the “Ads by Google” link in the past and they were banned afterwards, but they were all obviously violating the Adsense TOS in various ways, it wasn’t about a copyright violation.

I’ll do the DMCA complant route if I need to in the future, thanks.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:27:56 +0000

I hate to correct you, but doing what you described doesn’t work for reporting copyright infringement. To get a site banned from Adsense for a copyright violation, you have to file a DMCA notice to the Adsense team. You can find information on how to do that here:

http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html

My advice is to not click that ads by Google link, I have reported at least one dozen sites that way, none have been banned. That link works, it’s more of a hassle since it has to be faxed or snail mailed, but it works.

Hope that helps!