The Bitacle site is stealing content from blogs, MotherPie included. It is a hassle to stop and deal with skuzzbos who take entire blog content and place it on their own site with no links back or without asking for permission. This issue is concerning bloggers and I will deal with it by placing the stop bitacle button on my posts so please bear with me and hopefully blog pressure will stop the copyright violation problem by sites that scrape blogs for content.
Too see how this site copies MotherPie's work, protected under a Creative Commons copyright license, see this MotherPie original post on The 50s and then see how Bitacle takes the entire post and photo and posts it as their own content. From what I can tell, all the content from MotherPie is posted on their site. They have recently added a fake "link" to this site that only takes one back to their own page. The Bitacle site, based in Spain, has blogging activists hounding them, especially those who see Bitacle running ads for content they have stolen.
For more information on this issue/problem: The Bitacle Battle of the Blogs by Lorelle on Wordpress, Big Splog Battle by Blogging Pro and Bitacle: A Plan for Action by Plagiarism Today. Plain Jane Mom also addresses the issue. Buttons are available from StopBitacle.org --
10/6 update: Bitacle has taken this MotherPie post written 10/5 as their own with no links back to this site (and 100 other Mother Pie posts) and has added a "digg this" button to this MotherPie content on their site.
I wasn't Bitacled, but a fellow who provides therapeutic services I don't care for was reposting my content. I can't find the emails now, but the guy thought that what he was doing was innocent--plugging the RSS feeds into his content.
Posted by: Liz | October 08, 2006 at 03:48 PM
Thank you Motherpie for bringing this to the blogsphere's attention.
Posted by: motherbumper | October 13, 2006 at 10:09 AM