Copyright Theft by Pseudo Expert Websites
It is now so easy to set up websites that there is a proliferation of sites purporting to give expert advice about coins, gold, investment, etc, but which are thinly disguised advertising portals usually for eBay.
Most of these sites have been cobbled together by people who know next to nothing about their chosen subject. Most of their content is simply rehashed from other web sites with a few pretty pictures also stolen from other web sites. They contribute nothing to the web other than clutter, yet are usually designed using common templates which often give them undeservedly good search engine rankings.
Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
Copyright Infringements Remedies
Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.
Other Copyright Abuse
Other Copyright Abuse
Copyright Thieves
The following is a linked list of notable infringements of our Intellectual Property rights.
We intend to take legal action against any and all of these, but international lawyers and legal action tend to be quite expensive, although we would obviously seek to recover costs and damages from the guilty parties. Meanwhile we think that giving the individuals, companies and websites some free publicity is in the public interest, and also quicker, cheaper, and possibly more effective than litigation. There are now over 100 on our list. these include a few duplicates where the companies use different names, or the name of their website is different from the company.
We are aware that there is something called "innocent" infringement, but believe if somebody is ignorant about copyright, it is because they choose to remain so.
- AU Exploration LLC (goldpriceperounce.com)
- Best American Gold Coin (bestamericangoldcoin.com)
- Best Gold Investments (bestgoldinvestments.com)
- Best Gold Sovereigns (bestgoldsovereigns.com)
- Best Way To Invest (bestwaytoinvest.com)
- Bugging In (buggingin.com)
- Bullion Bargains (bullionbargains.us)
- Bullion.Com, Castello Cities Internet Network, Inc. (bullion.com)
"The Authority on Precious Metals"
- Bullion Exchange, The (thebullionexchange.co.uk)
- Bullion Silver Gold (bullion-silver-gold.com)
- Bullion Shop, The, of Mallorca, Spain (thecommerce.es)
- Buy Gold Sovereigns (buygoldsovereigns.com)
- Buy Your Coins (buyyourcoins.com)
- Buzzle (buzzle.com)
- Carson Antiques UK (Steve Carson) on GoAntiques.com
- Choate, Garland; Gram Gold Bars (gramgoldbar.com)
- Chuckchuckbobuck.jimdo (chuckchuckbobuck.jimdo.com)
- Cloudfront (cloudfront.net)
- Coins Dig (coinsdig.com)
- Coiny Coins (coinycoins.com)
- Credit Suisse Gold (creditsuissegold.org)
- Delhi OLX (Rajesh Kumar) (delhi.olx.in)
- DGC Magazine (dgcmagazine.com)
- Doe, Doe (chuckchuckbobuck.jimdo.com)
- Dollar Daze (dollardaze.org)
- Domains Rush (theproof.co.uk)
- DP Quiz (dpquiz.co.uk)
- Energise Web Design & Hoosting of New Zealand (energise.co.nz) or The Gold Man
- E.WTC (ewtc.cn)
- First Rung (firstrung.co.uk)
- Fondsdiscount (edelmetalle.fondsdiscount.de)
- Forex Trading HQ (forextradinghq.com)
- Freequencies (freequencies.wordpress.com)
- Full Gold Sovereign (fullgoldsovereign.com)
- Goldbarren und Silberbarren (goldbarren-silberbarren.de)
- Gold Buying Guide (goldbuyguide.com)
- Gold-Bullion.DE
- Gold Coins 4 Sale (goldcoins4sale.co.uk)
- Gold Coins for Sale (goldcoinssale.net)
- Gold Company Temmy Wahyudi (temmywahyudi.com)
- The Golden Touch (thegoldentouch.info)
- Gold Coins Gain (goldcoinsgain.com) Aurum Advisors
- Gold Core (goldcore.com), Previously Gold & Silver Investments (gold.ie)
- Gold Coins Piston Ring (gold-coins.piston-ring.net)
- Goldgeschenk (goldgeschenk.de)
- Gold Guinea (goldguinea.co.uk)
- Gold Information Network
- Gold Man, The (thegoldman.co.nz)
- Gold Panda (goldpanda.org.uk)
- Gold Price Knowledge Base (goldpriceperounce.com)
- Gold Price Per Ounce (goldpriceperounce.com)
- Gold-Prices (gold-prices.biz)
- Gold Prices Today goldpricestodaylive.com
- Gold-Price.com
- Gold Price goldprice.org
- Gold And Silver Secrets, Arian (gold-and-silver-secrets.com)
- Gold Safe (goldsafe.co.uk)
- Gold Silver Investments (goldsilverinvestments.com)
- Gold Stock Bull (goldstockbull.com)
- Gold Trader Asia (goldtraderasia.com)
- Government Auctions UK (governmentauctionsuk.com)
- Gram Gold Bars Garland Choate (gramgoldbar.com)
- Historic UK (historic-uk.com)
- Hough Precious Metals, Michael Hough of (760) 217-5419 (San Diego, California)
(houghpreciousmetals.com)
- Independence Coin Services
- Jewellery Discount Shop (jewellerydiscountdhop.co.uk)
- John Doe (chuckchuckbobuck.jimdo.com)
- Joseph Wealth Systems, Picassa, Zigmars.Rozentals (picasaweb.google.com)
- Kill Em All (killemallclub.blogspot.com)
- KK Bullion of Bournemouth (kkbullion.com)
- Krugerrand Gold Coins (krugerrandgoldcoins.com)
- Lew Rockwell.com (lewrockwell.com)
- Liberty Silver (libertysilver.se)
- Link Trader
- Market Oracle (marketoracle.co.uk)
- Money Energy (getmoneyenergy.com)
- Oro 24 Carati (oro24carati.com)
- Northbridge Precious Metal Group (gonpmg.com)
- Numismatic News (numismaticnews.net)
- Oro y Finanzas (oroyfinanzas.com)
- Overstock (auctions.overstock.com)
- Panda USA
- Picasa, Zigmars.Rozentals, Joseph Wealth Systems (picasaweb.google.com)
- Precious Metals Investment Group (preciousmetalsinvestmentgroup.com)
- Precious Metal Shop (preciousmetalshop.com)
- Precious Metals In Singapore (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BFbBqIi2zt4/SqcrKXzcCnI/AAAAAAAABx4/WqxhoasqN4w/s400/gold-bars-1-kilo.jpg)
- Quality Gold Bullion Online (qualitybullion.com)
- Rajesh Kumar (delhi.olx.in)
- Rashbre Central (http://rashbre2.blogspot.com/2007/04/half-sovereign-or-dragon-gets-it.html)
- Rosland Capital (roslandcapital2.com)
- Rozentals, Zigmars, Joseph Wealth Systems (picasaweb.google.com)
- St. George Illawarra Dragons Rugby Club
- Save Gold of Westmont, Illinois (savegold.com)
- Scrap Gold (scrapgold.org.uk)
- See Visions Now Stuart Wilde (seevisionsnow.com)
- Silver Price (silverprice.org)
- Silver Trading Company silvertrading.net
- Sovereign Coins (sovereigncoins.org.uk)
- Sovereign Gold Coins (sovereigngoldcoins.com)
- Sovereign Publisher (sovereignpublisher.com)
- Sovereign Sound (sovereignsound.net)
- Squidoo (squidoo.com) M Kerogazov
- Stephen Yautz / SMY Historical Services (smyhistorical.blogspot.com)
- Sunsetmoon2020 (sunsetmoon2020.blog61.fc2.com)
- Tau & Engels (tau-engels.com)
- Telltale Coins (telltale-coins.com)
- Templar Integrity Partners LLC (templarintegrity.com)
- Thai Gold (usgoldbuyers)
- There Are No Sunglasses (therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com)
- Tradekey.com
- Tulving (tulving.com)
- UK Bullion Ltd (ukgoldbullion.co.uk)
- US Free Ads (usfreeads.com)
- US Gold Buyers (usgoldbuyers.com)
- USA Gold of Denver, Colorado
- US Bullion Exchange
- Varolmak (finance.varolmak.com)
- Wahyudi, Temmy. Gold Company (temmywahyudi.com)
- Wholesale Investment of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. (wholesaleinvestment.com)
- Wiki Coins (wikicoins.com)
- Wilde, Stuart, See Visions Now (seevisionsnow.com)
- World All Bullion (worldallbullion.com)
- World Mint Coins (worldmintcoins.com)
- You Tube (youtube.com)
- ZAR Coins - About South Africa
- Zlate Mince of the Czech Republic
- Zukhruuf (zukhruuf.com)
- 2 Lazy 2 Boot (2lazy2boot.com) & Cats Protection
Advertising Portals Disguised as Expert Advice Sites Parasites
In the past few years, it has become less expensive to set up and run websites. It can be done at zero cost for smallish sites. At the same time, website production software has become better and cheaper, often free. Content Management Systems, including Wordpress and Joomla, are readily available at low or no cost. RSS feeds can supply ever changing "content" free of charge. Almost anybody who can read and write, and a few who obviously can't, can now publish their own "expert" website with only a few hours work. They do not even have to buy or borrow books, as most the the information they regurgitate can be quickly and easily found on the internet, using simple Google searches.
We should probably call these para sites, as they simply leech from others while contributing nothing.
Most of these advertising portals are for eBay, as eBay supply a "developers program" and a "Partner Network". eBay will provide their API (Application Programming Interface) to developers, and encourage all to "Drive quality traffic to one of our partners and get paid for it" and "make money by driving traffic to eBay".
They will provide "Tools, Widgets & Links".
A blog contains
Murray Newlands' Top Ten Tips for Writing Product Reviews 02 November 2009, and Successful Search Engine Marketing – 1. Selecting and Organizing Your Keywords
eBay's aim is to get website owners, existing and new to make money by pushing trade, mainly buyers, to eBay. According to eBay "Currently, the top 25 affiliates in the (affiliates) program average above $100,000 in monthly commissions".
Nowhere on eBay's advice and help sections does it mention that you should be an expert on the subject about which you write an article or advice, and neither does it mention that the advice should be honest and impartial.
eBay's affiliate programmes strike us as being like pyramid or network selling, paying people to recommend them. While we still naively believe or at least hope that the majority of people or honest, we can also see that there must be large numbers of others who, given the opportunity of making easy money, will sell their soul to the devil, and recommend whoever will pay them the most. no wonder there are a number of pseudo expert advice websites and blogs giving biased, wrong, unethical, and dishonest advice that eBay is the best / cheapest place to buy anything and everything.
Given the countless volumes of people complaining about being ripped off by both buyers and sellers on eBay, and by the failures of eBay "safe harbour" systems, and PayPal, all of which are unpaid and unsolicited, it is not difficult to imagine that most of the web owners who recommend eBay are only doing so for the money, and giving poor and misleading advice.
Needless to say, some of these "expert advice" sites are so lazy and dishonest that they create their site content by stealing our (and others') images, using, copying and re-hashing our content, always without giving any credit for its source. In most cases it is also difficult to identify the author and to check his level of experience or expertise, or to contact him.
Some of these advertising portals also earn money by linking to Google, which at least means a good quality targeted search, or other advertisers.
We would advise anybody using any of these pseudo expert advice sites to check the "About Me" pages of these sites, and to treat them with due caution if there is any lack of transparency about the sites owner, author, expertise, or experience.
The other big downside of the pseudo expert advice sites is that they dilute the quality of the internet, and make it harder for users to find the genuine, good quality websites, by spamming keywords almost meaninglessly. eBay have a keyword spamming tool for its associates to use.
Copyright Abuse on eBay
Copyright Abuser Categories
With more than 500 examples of copyright theft, we are having to split the types and categories of copyright thieves.
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Auctiva, eBay & Copyright Theft
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Copyright Abuse by Coin & Bullion Dealers, Jewellers & Other Traders
Original version, non-alphabetical.
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