I have recently changed my RSS feed to publish only part of the blog post, and this has drastically reduced the amount of splogs stealing my content. The downside is that syndicates who I have given permission to do not want to publish my content, unless it is published in it’s entirety.

I could and probably should fight these sploggers head on and publish my content in full, but as a blogger who writes in his spare time, it simply is not time effective for me to spend all my time contacting web hosts etc asking them to take the content down.

I’m sure there must be a solution, where I can stop them stealing the content – does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this?

Performancing is happy to announce a forum dedicated to legal issues that bloggers face. In addition to stock DMCA notices and cease and desist letters, Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today will be offering advice and conducting research into specific issues.

The forum will focus primarily on content theft, but also other issues that a blogger may face including, defamation, trademark, free speech issues, privacy and more. If Jonathan does not know the answer he will research it for you and provide an opinion.

We hope that this resource proves to be helpful to the blogging community, especially as many of us are "on our own" so to speak without the standard legal resources that an incorporated business might have.

Jonathan has written an introductory post to get things started and we hope that you'll all welcome him to the Performancing community.

I was away all day, 8 hours, sitting at the car shop as they kept giving me false promises about when my windshield would be replaced from another windshield crack (3 in the last 6 months) caused by daily driving on I-95 in Pennsylvania alongside tractor trailers. To put it bluntly, I'm a bit P.O.ed at the moment, and things got compounded when I discovered that one of my best sites is currently being uniquely aggregated into a perfect duplicate splog that's trying to pass itself off as legit.

My question to you. What's the best way to get back at this jerk? Can I direct unique feed content specifically to an IP or domain name? Any suggestions are appreciated.