Someone Stole My Feed- Please help me

[lyon2007]

Hi,

I have been using feedburner from day one and never had any issue but recently I saw someone redirect my Blog Feed to his Blog. Yes, whatever I post will be displayed on his blog immediately. Initially I thought its some RSS directory but when I clicked on the link it din take me to my blog. Rather they have published it saying its their Admin posts. Its really frustrating. Is there any way to disable feed redirection?

I couldn't find a better place to post so I apologize if I am posting on the wrong thread.

Please help.

[Twey]

Crikey. That's low. You can disable feed requests from their host:
<?php
$blocked_hosts = array(
'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' // their IP address
=> 'Go away, ya damn feed stealers!'
);

if($block_msg = @$blocked_hosts[$_SERVER['HTTP_REMOTE_ADDR']])
die($block_msg);
?>

[lyon2007]

He! Thanks a lot!

But where exactly do I paste it? I use Blogger XML. I am not good at HTML. Do I need to parse the code before pasting? And will my feed readers be able to receive the feed or thats alos gonna be blocked?

[tech_support]

He! Thanks a lot!

But where exactly do I paste it? I use Blogger XML. I am not good at HTML. Do I need to parse the code before pasting? And will my feed readers be able to receive the feed or thats alos gonna be blocked?

Oh... you need to have a PHP enabled server for this.
I don't think Blogger has that. Er... Just report 'em.

[lyon2007]

Oh! How do I report it to them?

[tech_support]

Who's doing it to you? Post all the details here! :D

[lyon2007]

He has redirected 2 RSS feeds. One is mine and one is some fashion blogger's. I informed her yesterday, I am yet to hear from her.

http://blog.watchnshare.in/category/beauty-fashion/page/2/

Here's my blog link in case u want to compare-
http://mynaturalbeautytips.blogspot.com/

Thanks a lot for ur support. I really appreciate it.

[insanemonkey]

sicne they own a website and you dont know if they are hosted with bogspot do a whois look up, i believe it will tell you who they are hosted and then report them to there company...

grrr beat em down and whip em..

[lyon2007]

Hey! Thanks a lot for ur suggestion. I'll do that right away.

[jscheuer1]

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out yet or not. Even if the offending party's host is not Blogger XML, Blogger XML may still be very interested in finding out about the theft of content and in helping to stop it.

[lyon2007]

But how do I contact google?

[insanemonkey]

is he hosted wih google????

[lyon2007]

This is his blog link-

http://blog.watchnshare.in/category/beauty-fashion/

Its a wordpress blog but I am not able to find out the hosting server.

[insanemonkey]

ok, here you got,

They are hosted with Verio, never heard of them but here is information..
their #: 1-800-GET-VERIO (1-800-438-8374)
Email: abuse@verio.net

this is for copyright infringment, so I think you should do this one..
copyright@verio.net
303-708-2445


http://www.verio.com/contact/
any info just let me know...
just call them and tell them your blogspot and tell them whitch domain is using it and blahblah they should figure it out...

[BLiZZaRD]

Open notepad and type this:



order deny,allow
deny from 72.9.145.148
deny from blog.watchnshare.in
deny from watchnshare.in


save file as .htaccess (note it should NOT be .htacess.txt - if it saves that way, rename and remove the .txt - and don't forget the "." at the front.)

Upload .htaccess as is to the root of your server. If your server already has a .htaccess edit it and add the code above.

This will block that site, subdomain (just in case) and the site by IP from accessing your site.

I don't know how it would work with RSS feeds, but it's better than nothing. :)

[Twey]

It's not just you, he's taking articles from all over the Web.

http://blog.watchnshare.in/technology-news/google-pagerank-update-terrorizes-the-blogosphere/
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/10/27/google-pagerank-update-terrorizes-the-blogosphere/

http://blog.watchnshare.in/technology-news/talking-about-facebook-with-facebook-at-the-snap-summit/
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9805410-2.html

http://blog.watchnshare.in/bollywood-news/dont-smoke-in-public-shahrukh/
http://www.pratikg.com/2007/10/27/dont-smoke-in-public-shahrukh/

http://blog.watchnshare.in/celebrity-pics/nisha-kothari-hot-sexy-girl-from-bollywood/
http://puremasalablog.blogspot.com/2007/10/nisha-kothari-hot-sexy-girl-from.html


I don't know how it would work with RSS feeds, but it's better than nothing.An RSS feed is just an XML "file" sent in response to a normal HTTP request. It should suffice nicely.

[insanemonkey]

he cant make a .htaccess file. he is using blogspot...


ooh what you need to do is just report the site.. and they will shut him down.. also will you please let us know what happens..

[BLiZZaRD]

I was always curious about that... So basically RSS feeds (I know 'what' they are) are stored locally to the server and a feed reader will scour and get those XML files and display them?

Doesn't that count against your storage/bandwidth?

[Twey]

Yep. You just link to it like any other file:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="somefeed.rss" title="My RSS Feed">

[BLiZZaRD]

Hmm... interesting. Perhaps I should play around with it some... Not that I have much interest in reading XML output, but hey... whatever.

[masti4fun]

Hey Guys,

I was reading through your discussion and checked his site. All the posts were now redirecting to the original website.

I think your efforts worked!
Congratulations Guys!