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I`m so upset, I discovered by checking my Web stats visitors that another site, Your Lingerie Party has plagiarized "My Story".  I`m so upset, I can`t believe it, word for word a very personal story that I wrote, as their own and just erased my name and used their names.  Check it out!

http://www.vickisdrawerslingerie.com/about.html

http://yourlingerieparty.com/index.php?main_page=page_2& zenid=fb50f6ec271732c12c60313412839884

I feel so violated!  I sent an email (they have no contact phone number listed) to the theives but any other suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Vicki

Threaten to create a website/links (in their name) devoted to this very subject.

yourlingerieparty.com/stole my story. Or! You can take it as a compliment?

Either way. I love your website

Thanks for all the comments.  I can`t take it as a compliment, I go above and beyond to take care of my customers and provide the best possible service and my reputation is what sets me apart from sites like that, that don`t even provide a phone number.  Great suggestions about the threat though!

I`m glad you like the site and I appreciate the compliments.

"I love beautiful lingerie. When my shipments arrive in those
unremarkable brown boxes, I search the internet for content with which I
can plagiarize."   Thanks, I need a laugh!

In my rant I sent a note to a friend of mine who provided me with this link that may be helpful to some other folks out there to see if your work has been copied.

http://www.copyscape.com/

http://www.archive.org/

Thank you friends for all the kind words.  I really needed them.

Vicki

How would you go about collecting royalty fees? Most likely, they may turn their heads, and delete what they took from you. Is there a standard letter everyone can use to mail to people like this?

Unfortunately as long as someone can read the text it can be copied. Even if you use an image to represent the text so the text cannot be copied, someone can just transcribe the text.

I`m very sorry to hear about the plagiarism. You should contact their ISP with a threatening letter. This has a much better chance of getting results ... and it`ll be a nasty surprise for those thieves.