Blog Piracy

and not of the cute and sexy kind

I've been robbed.

The other night I accidently discovered another blog using ALL my posts.

They go back to the very beginning when I started this blog in January 2010.
Almost 400 posts.

Someone copied every single one of my posts and also posts of Steve's of

An Urban Cottage.

I emailed Steve as soon as I discovered. This creep of the internet has copied other

bloggers' posts all the way back to 2008.

Steve recognized the blog content of two other bloggers he knew and contacted them

I just spent about four hours last night reporting each individual post to 

Blogger. 

I reported that my whole entire blog was stolen in one submission form and they 

wrote me back and said that I must report the url of each of my posts and each of

the url's of the posts on the offending blog.

Well, I got a system going where I could cut and paste and managed to get my time

of reporting each stolen post down to taking me two minutes each.

At that rate, it will still take me about 12 hours to report them all and that 

is with no time taken between reports. 

So it's really going to take me more like 14 or 15 hours.

I am beyond livid about this. 

You can't imagine how much it hurts to find my very personal stuff there.

I know I share all with my fellow bloggers....but as soon

as I saw all my posts exploited to just earn money for this person that is copying and pasting

just to earn ad dollars...well it makes me sick. 

This is the last thing I need to be working on...right now.

So I'm reporting my stolen posts to blogger instead of writing new content.

I so appreciate all of you who have emailed me, checking on how I am doing.

I am doing a little better. I am learning to live with the pain of losing Newman.

It almost seems like he was a dream and that he never existed.

So painful to think about him.

My sister is doing MUCH better. I'm hoping she might be out of the care center by end of the month.

And hopefully, she'll never get in that kind of condition again.

She is feeling pretty good and just needs to work on rehab to be able to get out. 

I had lunch yesterday for the first time in a very long time with Shelly.

I had not seen her in almost three weeks. 

Her immune system was almost non existent because of her blood count being destroyed by the chemo.
So she has not had visitors during this time.
I didn't want to take the chance of bringing in any germs plus she has been extremely tired
and very very sick. 

But by yesterday she was feeling better and wanted to go eat at our favorite Thai food buffet. 

She is breathing better and in less pain.

This could mean the chemo is working. We won't know for sure for several more weeks.

She has another chemo treatment on Monday.

And she'll be very very sick for a couple of weeks after that.

She just gets to feeling better and then its time for chemo again.

Anyway...for now things are going about as good as we could hope.

We do have hope.

Have any of you had your posts hijacked? 

I would tell you the address of this criminal but I don't want him to get any traffic he doesn't deserve.

I have to say it's been very upsetting to me.

The hardest part is seeing my little Newman on this stranger's site.

So far I've had about 10 posts taken off that I reported the other night.

Last night I reported about 90 more.... and I have so many more to do.

**Update**
After reading your comments today...I tried to answer most questions with a comment of my own.
So please go to my comments to read a little more.


**New Update**
The criminal blog has been taken down! 
I'm not sure if Blogger did this or if the blogger himself gave up.
This does not mean that it won't happen again.
But at least for now...I know my posts are still my own.


Now... I'm going to really try to get back to business as usual.