EzineArticle Author Pankaj Saini was infringing upon the copyright of several authors by scraping their content for his teen porn website.
Jonathan Bailey, who runs Plagiarism Today knows all about splogging. He wrote an article on this entitled ‘An Even Darker Side of Scraping.’ Jonathon looked into this for me, but had little luck in tracking down the actual host.
My husband Shawn however was able to get in touch with someone who could take action in getting my content removed from these teen porn sites. Shawn spoke to Dan Depina, the admin of a site that manages adult sites. Shawn spoke to Mr. Depina via telephone. Dan was very helpful. He even called Shawn back.
Dan Depina contacted an administrator of one of the porn affiliate programs who contacted Mr. Pankaj Saini on our behalf.
Mr. Pankaj Saini is a sponsor of a porn affiliate program. He earns revenue by driving traffic to their domains. Jay informed me that if Mr. Pankaj Saini does not comply with the legal request by us, that they will ban him from using any of their services in the future.
Jonathon too was very helpful by providing me with a Sample DMCA Notification of Infringement Letter to send to the domain registrar.
Pankaj Saini has sent me by email a formal apology. He has removed all the content he scraped from the websites.
This is a reply he sent to an email that was sent by one of the porn affiliate programs.
Pankaj Saini says, “The fault is entirely mine and I take the full responsibility. For an excuse, let me explain what caused this fault. I put some blogs on automation using blog automation softwares some weeks ago as a tryout. And then forgot all about them until I received this email.
I don’t believe Pankaj Saini . I had sent several cease and desist to Panka Saini in which he just ignored. It was not until the affiliate program contacted him on our behalf, did he reply.
In my opinion Pankaj Saini found the porn industry to be an easy way to make money. I believe that he knew all along what he was doing. After all he is an SEO guru who was using black-hat SEO tactics to get search engine traffic and at the same time he was infringing upon the rights of many authors.
If Pankaj Saini has infringed upon your copyright then I want to hear about it. Please contact me via email and I will provide you with the information you’ll need to get your infringed upon work removed.
Rose DesRochers
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9 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 7:08 am
He may be somewhat repentive but his use of Chris’ info still displays.
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 11:45 am
Don, Chris said that he was speaking to Pankaj Saini. He told me that he takes Pankaj Saini apology as sincere until proven guilty. He also thanked me for my work I did to track down the guy. Your saying Chris’ info still displays. Pankaj Saini said he deleted all content and three of the sites I went to have no content. Feel free to email what page displays Chris’ content and I’ll contact Pankaj Saini.
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Rose,
The only one that still displays when I type kidsearch into Google blog search is the one that started these blogs. On page two..same as what was in the original blog.
Is Myspace.com still a ‘predator’s dream’
2 Jul 2006
Typical that the National Center for Made up and Exaggerated Statistics (NCMEC)
is … Click here to learn how you can monitor your child or teen’s computer …
Kidsearch Network Website Runaway Teens Make a Donation to Kidsearch … …
Teen make up – (link removed)
The issue appears resolved for ya’ll, my concern is for the typical surfer who may have no idea even where to begin so at least maybe something positive came out of it.
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Don, if you click on the link, the content is gone. It’s just not out of the search yet. I imagine that will take a few days.
Jonathan Bailey from plagiarismtoday.com wrote an article on this. You may wish to reprint the article on your blog.
It can be read here http://www.todays-woman.net/article1346.html
I plan on writing one myself. Hopefully through education the typical surfer will learn where to start.
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 12:29 pm
When I clicked on the link the site is active so as the pictures started to display I closed the site. As long as it deletes from Google blog search, then it would mean someone would have to want to go there.
All the other searches seemed to have been deleted. I will check out the articles you mentioned.
Thanks
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 12:50 pm
The site is active as there is nothing illegal about the site. While like you, I don’t agree with the content there isn’t much we can do about that. When you search my name in Blogger search, it still returns Pankaj Saini websites.
I have emailed blogger and requested that they remove the pages from their search. However, I don’t think they will.
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Well, I believe at the very least he knows that he will lose money using these tactics. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he is sincere in his apology.
I was pretty harsh because I consider the matter serious. He responded that in my shoes he would have done the same thing and that as soon as he saw the content was from a missing child website he knew he deserved the backlash.
I’m moving on. As far as I’m concerned the incident is over.
I appreciate everything that you Rose, and you Don, have done on this. It goes to show that when bloggers stick together and look out for each other it is very powerful stuff.
I am happy to be associated with such great people. Thank you both.
Chris McElroy
Missing Children Blog
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Understood…this is from a search of his name two minutes ago.
Pankaj Saini: Black-Hat SEO: Keyword Splogging2 hours ago
… who could take action in getting my content removed from these teen pornsites.
… Dan Depina contacted an administrator of one of the porn affiliate …
After all he is an SEO guru who was using black-hat SEO tactics to get search …
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Blog Content Theft by Pankaj Saini14 hours ago by Sarah Smith
Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Chris, Don sent me a screen capture of my latest content on another one of Pankaj Saini’ website.
I emailed Pankaj Saini and his reply was ” Damn sorry once more Rose. I completely forgot about the darned cron job. It’s removed now. I have removed all scraped content from all the sites I could find, but I do have a lot of them. In case I missed something, please let me know.
Regards, Pankaj Saini”
I too consider the matter serious. More serious is that Pankaj Saini is using sub domain names to lure children and teens to material that is obscene.
I think that there is more here to look at and I respect that you just want to move on. Hopefully your content will stay off Pankaj Saini” websites and he will prove to be sincere.
Don, thank you for imforming me. I’ll continue to keep my eyes open to my content showing up on those sites.