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Backupanytime content being stolen.

I have “Backupanytime” set up as a Google alert term so I receive notifications about mention of Backupanytime on the web. Being a small business, many of these relate to content on our own site and I am familiar with them before Google alerts me. Some of them relate to our blog being added to someones blogroll (and this is appreciated) while others are as a consequence of a blog post somewhere by us or about us.

I received one today of a totally different type. I recognised the content. Indeed I wrote it. The location was not known to me. The location was http://onlinebackupsolutions.blogspot.com
I had a look at it. Realising that there were other incidents of our content on the site and that they in the main linked back to a competing online backup company I had a very close look indeed.
Here are some examples of what I found.
http://onlinebackupsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/12/features-and-limitations-of-backup.html
Supposedly Posted by Rachel Joseph at 3:24 PM

The above is not just like original content from our site but even has “Backupanytime” in the content! It comes from http://www.backupanytime.com/blog/2008/07/16/50-things-you-should-know-about-online-backup/

Here is another example.

http://onlinebackupsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/11/compression.html
Posted by Rachel Joseph on 21 November
This originally comes from http://www.backupanytime.com/blog/2008/07/16/50-things-you-should-know-about-online-backup/
They must like that post.
And here is another one
http://onlinebackupsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/11/encryption-and-its-importance_17.html
is also taken from our original content on
http://www.backupanytime.com/blog/2008/07/16/50-things-you-should-know-about-online-backup/
and again Posted by Rachel Joseph, this time November 17th.  She must know this original Backupanytime blog post off by heart. It is indeed a long but apt and interesting post which took considerable time to complete. Rachel has a much more efficient approach. She just steals my content and splits it up to make multiple posts. Content theft is despicable. It is so mean.
They all in the main lead back to http://sosonlinebackup.com/

I called that company and got an answering machine. I left a detailed message.
I will follow this up no matter what it takes.

I am also reporting this to blogger and I am reporting the adsense account. These reports involve snail mail. I assume this is to avoid misreporting. I expect therefore that these reports (especially since mine is detailed and undeniable) will be taken very seriously. Data protection is difficult to apply to data you want to make public througha website but which you want to be attributable to the correct  source. They are real costs in producing content. Why should someone else have reduced I.T. costs through plagiarism? There are no acceptable circumstances I am aware of. If someone wants to enlighten me, feel free.

I would appreciate any assistance on this.

In addition I want to track Rachel Joseph. Firstly to see if she actually exists and secondly to see if she has posted our content anywhere else.

Any comments, advice or opinions welcome.

John