Just Call Me Nancy Drew.

It was brought to my attention last week that one of my posts had turned up on another blog. I followed the link to discover that someone had stolen 109 of my posts. Pictures of my children and my words were spread out before me. Not only that, but my content had been butchered and abused by someone who spoke horrible English or had a really bad drinking problem. I mean, how can you turn "I am proud to be a part of the movement in support of Dove Self-Esteem Weekend" into "I am haughty to be a prejudiced of a mutation in await of Dove Self-Esteem Weekend"? To add insult to injury, I was in the hospital with K and really did not have the brain power to deal with such a disturbing development.

I imagined a woman named Lola, sitting in the dark, gazing at photos of my kids, wishing for my life, and eating my favorite tube of lipstick (which is Trucco Stained, if you're feeling hungry). I turned into a girl sleuth and did as much research as I could on safe guarding my content. I disabled the right click, posted a Creative Commons License, and even posted a fancy Copyscape button demanding that my content not be stolen. I felt so smug and so smart. I would stop the thief dead in their tracks.

Wrong, not only did the next post show up but they even re posted the Copyscape sign. It became clear that I was not dealing with Lola at all but a Splogger. Clearly, a content scraper is using my blog for free content and traffic. With no contact information and no Whois report to speak of, I had to really pull out my magnifying glass. After a bit of research, I have sent out a cease and desist letter and notified Google Adsense of the violation as well as the host of the guilty blog. Hopefully, they will take action and shut down the thief.

So, it's back to business here at Leigh vs Laundry. I love this blog too much to let some trashy Splogger take it away from me. I have enabled the right click so that people can download The Happiness Project button again. To keep myself sane, I will now refer to my oldest son as "G" and my youngest son as "K", you know, to protect them or something. Even though there are several photos of them already posted on the blog in question, I will no longer show my children's faces in the photos on here. I will get creative, get ready to see their cute feet and backs a whole bunch. I feel too violated to post their sweet faces on here for some scum to make a buck off of them.

I've decided not to add a link to the blog that is stealing my content in this post, that would only drum up free traffic for them. Besides, they don't care if my loyal readers go over and leave nasty comments. It would not change anything, I believe that they are using software to lift my content. I'm sure that some computer is sending my text through a filter and simply spitting out synonyms. It's real James Bond type of stuff. This is nothing personal, to them, I am just a whole bunch of dollar signs.

Unless of course, Lola is drunk and laughing maniacally as she reads this. If so, I say to you Lola...you are an idiot. I suggest that you quit hitting the sauce and stealing my posts. If a Splogger is behind this theft, I'd like to tell you that you are a bottom feeder. You can take your stupid worthless blog and stick it where the sun don't shine. Now, I dare you to repost that!