Thread: Copy Cat!

Hi guys,

have a look at this:
http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.c...d=1#post170884

This is an affiliate.. at least I hope an affiliate.. that has lifted content for casinos not belonging to your group, but does not link to them.. he/she only links to your casinos via banners.

Please find out who this is and kick their ass!

Proof:
mine:
xhttp://www.reviewed-casinos.com/online_casino_reviews/jackpot_city_online_casino.html
Copycat:
xhttp://www.bestcasinolist.com/jackpotcitycasino/

mine:
xhttp://www.reviewed-casinos.com/online_casino_reviews/casino_classic.html
Copycat:
xhttp://www.bestcasinolist.com/casinoclassic/

no need to list the rest as that would be simply mundane.. he/she needs to remove ALL the content.. also that stolen from Inspiration!

Thanks!!

Registrant:
traffic label

3 nutley terrace
London, London nw35bx
United Kingdom

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BESTCASINOLIST.COM
Created on: 25-Nov-02
Expires on: 25-Nov-08
Last Updated on: 26-May-08

Administrative Contact:
keinan, oded oded@trafficlabel.com
traffic label
3 nutley terrace
London, London nw35bx
United Kingdom
7865008010

Technical Contact:
keinan, oded oded@trafficlabel.com
traffic label
3 nutley terrace
London, London nw35bx
United Kingdom
7865008010

Domain servers in listed order:
NS53.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS54.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

The affiliate only removed his one site..

here is a list of more of his sites.. he has 100's of them...

xhttp://www.intocasinos.com/
xhttp://www.dreamcasino.asia/
xhttp://www.casinoindia.net/
xhttp://www.weblivecasino.com/
xhttp://www.winnerskasino.com/
xhttp://www.realslots.info/
xhttp://starluckycasino.com/
xhttp://topslotscasino.com/
xhttp://slotgames.asia/
xhttp://slotsaffiliate.com/
xhttp://slotavenue.com/
xhttp://skykingscasinos.com/
xhttp://casinobuys.com/
xhttp://hotcasino.net/
xhttp://vccasino.asia/
xhttp://roxypalacecasino.asia/
and tons more...

the list is endless....

Removing the one site KNOWING that he had more makes him the worst type of scumbags around!

fyi...

The first one (intocasinos) generated a js virus alert from avg on my computer.

There is masked js on the main page.

I post in all the forums where this guy is promoting.. that way each and every aff manager gets to see it.

However.. if you had read the first post, it would have taken you to another thread...
http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.c...d=1#post170884

Here you would have seen my post as to why affclub is being targeted..

I had a look and he has done it a tad differently in that he has copied reviews, but has not linked to the casinos that he copied.. he only links through banners to .. dare I say it.. playtech casinos.
Casino King, Casino Las Vegas, Swiss Casino, Magic Box Casino .. seeing a trend here?

He has a load of sites doing that and is copying from a number of affiliates.

Hi Nick,

thanks again for your help as always.

I just need to comment on this statement:

I kindly ask people posting in our forums to collect correct facts instead of making quick assumptions and posting threats and such that really are not productive and also can hurt our effort of professionalism and relationship with our affiliates.

Not once did I post any false assumptions nor any incorrect facts. Everything was as you saw it and now solved. So I am not sure what you menat by that statement. The fact is that the affiliate was copying other affiliates sites. Whether he was using a service or not is of no concern as to what I posted. He is responsible for the content on his site and when we affiliates contact him, he should react immediately and not wait until an affiliate program has to.

Why do we contact you?
Simple really - it is also in your best interest that this type of thing does not continue. Most, if not 90% of the banners were for your properties. It is a lot easier for you to find out who it is than us. In this case it was better for the copycat affiliate as he has not been shut down by his ISP or been banned by google, which would be the steps that we would need to take if it was not for affiliate programs jumping in.

I do not understand why we are now told that we should calm down when it is clear that WE were copied and the offending affiliate admitted it. Nowhere were any false facts or unwarrented threats made.

On a side note - you seem to have a feeling that you were the only affiliate program that was alerted to this - this is not the case. I spoke to many affiliate programs and posted in the respective forums as well. Some of them could help a bit but many could not as mentioned earlier - they were copying the reviews but were not linking to their casinos, so they could not see who it was. This is why we needed your help so desperately.

This is not the only case, I have 2 other cases that need to be dealt with and luckily for you, your properties are not involved. Brightshare and Wagershate are the ones mostly affected at these and they are delaing with this. The difference is that they closed the accounts immediately.

I do not want to start a huge fight here, but your statement really gives the impression that you think we are overreacting. I do not earn a lot of money with you as such - but that should not be an issue when an affiliate is being hurt.

Again - THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!

People who use content services have the resposibility for the content anyway.

They need to run it through copyscape to avoid being thieves.

We all know that content services are not to be trusted blindly.

If you put it on your site it's yours and you are responsible for it. Period.