Jenkins relegates Bitacle to Hell
Allan Jenkins has also been bitten by the Bitacle [no link intended] by Jesus Angelo Gletz, the Bitacle thief and has relegated him to Dante's 8th circle of Hell along with spammers and scrapers and I assume pickpockets. Thanks, Allan. I liked your piece and it's simultaneously nice to know I'm not alone and disturbing.
Pat Phelan found Jesus Angelo Glez in Spain +34628644317 I just phoned Jesus. I wanted to engage him in a naked conversation, but there was no answer. If, Jesus had answered, I don't think he'd be transparent with me anyway. He just does not seem to me to be a very transparent, bloggy kind of guy.
Maybe you could call him and try. Call day or night from any time zone. Use either the new Rebtel or Jajah services, to make your call nearly free.
Sometimes, the blogosphere reminds me of the Cold War days. The bad guys keep coming up with new ways to be bad. The good guys keep finding tools to beat them, blog them and discourage them. each side is always escalating all the time.
I would hate to know how much time I have spent weeding spam from my comments, blocking trackbacks, telling Typepad which URLs to block since I started blogging. Then add that up for all the bloggers everywhere. This is not small potatoes.
What must be small potatoes is how much money Jesus and his slimeball cohorts is making off of me, and Aan and all the other people from whom Binacle is stealing. I guess sooner or later it adds up.
I'm not the guy whose going to haul in the lawyers. It's just not my style. But when it does happen, I will shed no tears for the Binacle pirates of Spain.
I know how you feel. I remember how angry I was when someone hijacked one of my posts. MINE. And I'm not even a big blogger. Not by any estimate.
I could tell you were just spitting mad. But your post could do with a little editing. You spelled Allan's name wrong (unintentionally I'm sure) toward the bottom there.
I left a comment for Bitacle on a post he copied from you. I doubt he'll ever read it.
Posted by: Owen Lystrup | September 22, 2006 at 11:10 AM
Shel,
May I suggest that you consider switching to WordPress? Spam Karma does an amazing job of keeping spam off of my blog.
By the way, have you heard the new Diana Krall yet?
Posted by: Heather Ross | September 22, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Hi, Shel
If the phone number you had for "Jesus Angelo Gletz" is what I found on the domain registration for Bitacle.com via a whois search, keep in mind that all the information in that record can easily be faked.
What might be more helpful might be to track down the site host, demonstrate the theft, and tell them to take the site offline.
Sploggers generally don't advertise who they are in any way, and it's more useful to go to host, from what I've seen.
Of course, if this splogger was stupid enough to put his real contact info in the domain record, then give him hell! 8th circle included :D
Just a suggestion,
- Amy Gahran
Posted by: Amy Gahran | September 22, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Heather,
How did you know I was big Diana Krall fan?
Posted by: shel israel | September 22, 2006 at 01:15 PM
If you switch to wordpress or any of you reading this on wordpress, Owen wrote a script called anti-leech that strips out your content and just puts a link back to your blog. Example here.
I'll let you know how it goes...
Posted by: hollyster | September 22, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Shel,
You commented on my blog (McToonish) about it.
Posted by: Heather Ross | September 22, 2006 at 02:07 PM
Hi, Shel
The more I think over this splogger problem, the more I think it's futile and even counterproductive to try to hunt down and shut down individual sploggers.
They're not the real problem. They're just opportunists. The REAL problem is that Google, Yahoo, and other online ad network providers have their programs set up in such a way that actively *encourages* sploggers.
It does no good to stamp out a few cockroaches. You have to stop them from breeding.
I just wrote more about this at Contentious.
Thanks!
- Amy Gahran
Posted by: Amy Gahran | September 22, 2006 at 02:08 PM
Bitacle is a shit-weasel of the first magnitude. I've blocked it for over two weeks. It's stuff like this that really disturbs me.
Jim Forbes
Posted by: jim Forbes | September 22, 2006 at 06:09 PM
Hmmm, Bitacle just started throwing trackbacks at me. Just excerpts of one posts, but multiple trackbacks.
I met a splogger in Khanty-Mansisyk, Central Siberia, last February. Drank a bottle of vodka with him to get him to open up - suppose I should blog on it sometime!
synopsis: sploggers come in all stripes and colors. Sometimes they think they are moral, but the rest of them are scum!
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos | September 23, 2006 at 05:52 AM
I'm a fellow victim. Bitacle have responded to some of the cricisms at the Lutrov Communications blog:
http://lutrov.com/blog/80/
They're bad, make not mistake. But I've decided they're not quite as bad as the scum who simply heist my content without even attributing it.
Posted by: Ian | September 23, 2006 at 09:50 AM
Amy Gahran is wrong
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/09/why_hunting_spl.html
Posted by: alan herrell - the head lemur | September 23, 2006 at 10:13 AM
A number of us in Spain are also very concern about this bitacle.org issue (see El caso Bitacle if you can read Spanish). Even legal action is under consideration.
One other thing that would help, though, would be for Google to cancel their AdSense account.
Posted by: Julio Alonso | September 25, 2006 at 01:57 AM