Thank you Jamilla and British Beauty Blogger. Identity theft is rampant everywhere and it's sad to see it move onto the beauty world/blogging. I've been the victim of content theft, and identity theft is one step beyond. It's frightening. It's scary.
Sometimes I feel it's so overwhelming I'm helpless. Thanks to a few posts, much like this one, I feel better and a bit empowered to take steps to at least try and stop it. So far I've had no luck with removals - but I have had luck with it stopping in some instances.
I'm sorry this happened to you Jamilla! Good for you in being persistent. I hope they take all your stolen content down! Thank you for sharing this.
Bloggers, beauty and otherwise, are creative, plucky people who place their intellectual content on the Internet for the best of reasons, and then they got ripped off by the newest form of pond scum. I think that you are on the cutting edge of a form of communication and information, and that the legal protections/laws to cover your work are basically non-existent or very nascent.
Posting about these ripoffs is helpful to get the word out (Polish Police did a thrilling job), but the onus is always on the owner of the content to prove theft and go after the crook. I know from experience, and a hideous one, what it was like for my publisher to take off with $15 million of his company's assets. Very long story, short, I was part of a federal case (literally a U.S. federal lawsuit) against this guy and his son (crime was a family business). The outcome was that I got my copyright back because of contract violation, and I learned that this publishing house was part of a 1990's scam along with literary agents (ha) to lure in novice writers and then take their money and run.
That kind of white-collar crime still exists, but some of it has evolved into online content theft. If you gals banded together to pool ideas and information, you could stop a percentage of the theft. The "allglam" crooks will just set shop elsewhere, with a new name, on a new site, but making it harder to commit the crime of intellectual property theft is the only way for this activity NOT to escalate.
Well this is absolutely terrifying! I have always been careful to shred important documents but it never dawned on me that identity theft could have via the internet. How silly of me.
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Thank you Jamilla and British Beauty Blogger. Identity theft is rampant everywhere and it's sad to see it move onto the beauty world/blogging. I've been the victim of content theft, and identity theft is one step beyond. It's frightening. It's scary.
Sometimes I feel it's so overwhelming I'm helpless. Thanks to a few posts, much like this one, I feel better and a bit empowered to take steps to at least try and stop it. So far I've had no luck with removals - but I have had luck with it stopping in some instances.
I'm sorry this happened to you Jamilla! Good for you in being persistent. I hope they take all your stolen content down! Thank you for sharing this.
If I can help anyone with my bad experience, then I am very happy. Thanks for posting this.
omg what a psycho!!
Thank you for the tips, the post is very helpful. x
Bloggers, beauty and otherwise, are creative, plucky people who place their intellectual content on the Internet for the best of reasons, and then they got ripped off by the newest form of pond scum. I think that you are on the cutting edge of a form of communication and information, and that the legal protections/laws to cover your work are basically non-existent or very nascent.
Posting about these ripoffs is helpful to get the word out (Polish Police did a thrilling job), but the onus is always on the owner of the content to prove theft and go after the crook. I know from experience, and a hideous one, what it was like for my publisher to take off with $15 million of his company's assets. Very long story, short, I was part of a federal case (literally a U.S. federal lawsuit) against this guy and his son (crime was a family business). The outcome was that I got my copyright back because of contract violation, and I learned that this publishing house was part of a 1990's scam along with literary agents (ha) to lure in novice writers and then take their money and run.
That kind of white-collar crime still exists, but some of it has evolved into online content theft. If you gals banded together to pool ideas and information, you could stop a percentage of the theft. The "allglam" crooks will just set shop elsewhere, with a new name, on a new site, but making it harder to commit the crime of intellectual property theft is the only way for this activity NOT to escalate.
Update! Oxygen.com has removed ALL the offending posts, removed the bogus user profile, and banned the identity thief from any of the Oxygen Forums.
However, there are still Asian Makeup Lady fan postings out there...go figure!
Well this is absolutely terrifying! I have always been careful to shred important documents but it never dawned on me that identity theft could have via the internet. How silly of me.
Thanks so much for sharing this.
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