I posted earlier today about the Discovery Educator Network scraping my content… I also took the initiative to email Steve Dembo at discovery who is in charge of the network. He has issued an apology, and removed the post in question.

I’d like to poll my readers:

Should I pursue a legal suit against Heather Sullivan?

Whether the content is still accessible or not, she still stole it. I’m not going to pursue anything against the Discovery Network, because it’s hardly their fault, but still I think someone should pay, and that I should be compensated. Anyhow I guess the case is closed for now, unless any lawyers think they can win a case against Heather Sullivan, if so contact me for a 50/50 split.

Here’s the email I received from Steve Dembo at Discovery Educator Network:

UPDATE: Steve Dembo’s Email Screenshot Image has been removed, Steve emailed me back and apparently doesn’t like his email being posted, so I complied at his request.

I’m still upset about this issue, but I’m just going to let it go and move on to blogging about stuff that really matters to me…

Note: He also requested the removal of the Discovery channel logo, but as the image is from Wikipedia, and qualifies as fair use, I have the right to use it, and unless someone from Discovery wants to pay me to remove it, it shall remain.

This Topic is now Officially closed and I’m done blogging about it. Let’s Move On…

This makes me furious.. I don’t mind if someone pulls a snippet or paragraph or two from my blog, and links back to the source, even if they’re scraping to do it’s not that bad…in my opinion…however posting the entire post, making 1-2 small changes and calling it your own?

I never expected the Discovery Channel to do this, seriously this is messed up.  Apparently Heather Sullivan over at the Discovery Educator Network, is nothing more than a scraper and a fiend. She should be punished royally. If any lawyers are out there reading this - and want to help in a legal case by all means contact me, I’ll even give you a 50/50 split of the lawsuit.

I originally made a post about Ping.fm, and Pingpress.fm. My post was titled: Intro to Ping.fm(In case you don’t know) and Wordpress Plugin. Heather’s post is “Put Ping on Your Radar” which I found from a pingback to an automatically inserted link to a related post of mine for the keyword twitter.

I took a screen shot for legal reasons as well as to show you the similarities between her post and mine. Notice all of the links are the same, and the way ping.fm is in “” and bolded. Seriously heather you need to learn some etiquette, and the Discovery network needs to have some sort of moderation.

First my post:

Now for the scrapers’ post: