Youtuber caught stealing my Steemit article!
Unbelievable... I was checking out some SEO ranking on an article I wrote a while back and in one of the searches I did using part of the article title, I see a youtube video of a guy talking about a portfolio rebalancing tool.
Cool, I made one of those. Lets check yours out. Pop open the video and he starts the video with "I made this tool so I can do x,y,z...." ok, odd, that google sheet looks familiar.
I check the video description. He links the google sheet so people can make a copy. Hmm that's really odd, not only is this identical to mine (other than the cell fill color) he put his logo on the top of it and broke the CMC API lol!
So I stew for a minute think about how I want to solve this. There was obvious intent in the theft. I decide I'll just drop a comment on the youtube video.
I'm annoyed at this point because this is the first time someone has blatantly ripped off something I made, at least CoinMastery linked to my steemit when he used it, but regardless I figured I would give him time to respond before reporting the video.
At this point, I forget about the incident as I'm at work watching coinmarketcap - way to busy. A few hours later I open YouTube to check again and to my SURPRISE....
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Huh, I suppose my comment was read.
Gunna chalk this one up to a victory for myself and Steemit.
My question to you is - what would you have done in my position? or Has this already happened to you?
Hey Thor
I sucks to have your stuff stolen man.
To me it already happened a lot of times, and I own an entertainment blog so I get articles ripped from there all the time.
Once I was, like you, browsing Youtube. Then I find out a title equal to mine, go check it out and the video was just the guy READING the article to the microphone with images... that's it.
Then there was another time that it was a text to speech robot just reading as well with some clips on the background.
I lost count of how many times I got content mugged... I just shrug, feel bad and continue now, can't catch them all.
Cheers
I suppose its a form a flattery but It didnt feel like it ha! I actually see alot of those bot reading youtube videos, its one thing to talk about the article and debate it in a video but something else when you just read it line by line to generate views/ money on your channel...shady imo
Yeap, pretty much... inb4 that crap ends up in DTube :P
Ohhh! We all have to be very careful, prevention they say is better than cure.
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