Some guy is stealing my content how can I apply copyright strike on website please help!!!!

[Akwebguide]

So they’re a new competitor website that just pop up. He’s using Adsense to monetize his traffic and then he’s stealing the scripts I share on my website.
a little about my website
I create template and scripts and share them for free on my website with ads of course to earn revenue. My website became a little bit popular with over 100k monthly page and now people are stealing my scripts and posting them as their own.

I am 100% owner of my scripts and I have like coded them all myself. Also they have my website url hidden in its code
The other website is pretty much Doing copy paste of entire thing without even removing my website url

can someone please guide me from where I can apply for copyright strike

 

[Madoxx]

I believe that once you publish code, it's opensource - I don't think you can 'copyright' it.
If they use the whole articles you wrote around the code, then it is another story.

One method would be to share code snippets and, in the end provide a way for the reader to receive full code via email. This way, you can also build a mailing list. Another thing is to include comments containing links to your website, so you still get some credit when lazy stealers don't remove it.

p.s. I have no experience in this, it's just my thoughts.

 

[IWannaTaco]

I believe that once you publish code, it's opensource - I don't think you can 'copyright' it.
If they use the whole articles you wrote around the code, then it is another story.

One method would be to share code snippets and, in the end provide a way for the reader to receive full code via email. This way, you can also build a mailing list. Another thing is to include comments containing links to your website, so you still get some credit when lazy stealers don't remove it.

p.s. I have no experience in this, it's just my thoughts.

I also believe this is the case. You can't really copyright public code.

You could be blackhat about it tho... Maybe spam click his Google Adsense to get him banned.

 

[Akwebguide]

I believe that once you publish code, it's opensource - I don't think you can 'copyright' it.
If they use the whole articles you wrote around the code, then it is another story.

One method would be to share code snippets and, in the end provide a way for the reader to receive full code via email. This way, you can also build a mailing list. Another thing is to include comments containing links to your website, so you still get some credit when lazy stealers don't remove it.

p.s. I have no experience in this, it's just my thoughts.

I understand thx

 

[Akwebguide]

I also believe this is the case. You can't really copyright public code.

You could be blackhat about it tho... Maybe spam click his Google Adsense to get him banned.

That’s actually what even I though will search for Adsense auto clicker or something

 

[IWannaTaco]

That’s actually what even I though will search for Adsense auto clicker or something

Not really ethical, but neither is stealing other peoples work for profit.

 

[randomstrings]

Open source, as others said. May be change your code and make it hard for him to steal. If you are pro coder, just add a call back function to your site within code so your script will redirect visitors to your site if viewing script on some other site then yours.

 

[Akwebguide]

Open source, as others said. May be change your code and make it hard for him to steal. If you are pro coder, just add a call back function to your site within code so your script will redirect visitors to your site if viewing script on some other site then yours.

I see thanks

 

[Lipstick Spoiler]

Why don't you use a plugin that avoids copying from the site? I mean if someone were to steal he would def steal, but still, if someone is lazy enough, he'll have a hard time figuring it our. Use a good plugin that protects the content.
Some big news sites use this, and it's kind of hard to bypass if not impossible.

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

Ruin their site by sending junk backlinks (might cost you some money).
That's what leechers get.

 

[AmberJones]

put virus on that script and actives only if its uploaded to a particular url which is his domain

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

put virus on that script and actives only if its uploaded to a particular url which is his domain

Fastest way to get blacklisted by Google.

 

[AmberJones]

Fastest way to get blacklisted by Google.

I know so many famous websites that puts malicious scripts to the nulled apps or themes etc. Just thinking if you could do it too like they can

 

[StickySpray]

Source code is intellectual property. Copywrite law does apply similar to other written work. You should file a DMCA complaint with his host provider.

 

[Setox]

It's not open source as others stated, unless you mentioned that on your website, you should make and include a license with your script that gives guidelines on what's allowed and what's not, however, even with that, If you are sharing something for free and someone else is sharing it for free as well, there isn't much you can do, but if he's selling it or making money from it somehow (including ads) you can still sue them.

 

[CyberCommander]

https://getshieldsecurity.com/ have a function which you can activate that content copy is more difficult to copy (maybe you find also another way like block right click or make source code more harder to read).

you can report it to Google https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard?pli=1

You can implement a canary token if someone clone your website https://canarytokens.org/generate#
If you have his clean IP (no VPN/Proxy), you can block him

 

[Mrkoco]

I checked your website I don't see no scripts

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

I know so many famous websites that puts malicious scripts to the nulled apps or themes etc. Just thinking if you could do it too like they can

That's different. This guy says he uploads opensource code for scripts.
Google scam detectors can parse codes.

 

[paisawaisa]

There are tools which you can use to prevent copy paste of content on the website. It will reduce stealing of content.

 

[liquardo]

There are tools which you can use to prevent copy paste of content on the website. It will reduce stealing of content.

I don't think this is a good idea, as your visitors will want to copy that code for their projects and you don't want to make it extra difficult for them.

If you're teaching how code works, you could split the code into smaller pieces, explaining how it works and that would require your competitor to combine it themseleves or straight up copy your explanations which could be better grounds for a DMCA.