Another forum stealing content via RSS?

DarkGizmo

DarkGizmo

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So it was brought to my attention another forum is stealing my forum's content. I believe this is done via an RSS feed. What can be done about this? The forum is fairly new and has no real content of it's own. I also suspect it's running a nulled/pirated version of Xenforo (I already reported it)

What can be done to get this forum taken down? Or at least have my forum's content removed? and then prevent this from happening again? Thanks.
 
Digital Doctor said:
Stop the RSS feeds temporarily to see if you are correct about the method ?
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How would I do that?

And yes it's definitely being done via RSS or some other scraping method:
www.revillution.net

Legacy of Kain is back!

Legacy of Kain is back with Soul Reaver 1&2 Remaster coming December 10th on PS5, Xbox Series S/X. I'm really excited for this as I loved those games growing up and I'm hoping to see them remaster Blood Omen 2 & Defiance as well in the future. Perhaps a new game in the series is coming?
www.revillution.net www.revillution.net

Site stealing my content:

Legacy of Kain is back!

Legacy of Kain is back with Soul Reaver 1&2 Remaster coming December 10th on PS5, Xbox Series S/X. I'm really excited for this as I loved those games growing up and I'm hoping to see them remaster Blood Omen 2 & Defiance as well in the future. Perhaps a new game in the series is coming...
evention.pk
 
Digital Doctor said:
W

XF 1.5 Thread 'Disable RSS'

I don't like RSS or even the idea of it. Is it possible to completely disable all RSS support?

Not sure how easy it is to "toggle on and off" with Andy's addon.
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that's for XF1 not XF2.....

You think it's cuz of the ability to sign up w/ Discord or some other form of registration? I have my content viewable to guests (for SEO purposes) so i'm not even sure if the person doing the scraping is even registered to the forum.....
 
Make a thread calling out their site.

whatever.pk is a scam site, full of scammy scammers who like scam for dinner.
wait for it to show up on their site

delete the thread from your site.


Put a custom rule to redirect that rss url from that referrer to a very bad site with very bad rss feed.

ban them from google-

Report Content for Legal Reasons - Legal Help

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do it once per thread.


Send a DMCA


Then, if they are still stealing stuff, send their rss requests to 'hell'.

Code: 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://(www\.)?evention\.pk [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forums/-/index.rss$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://reallybadsite.com/theirrssurl [R=301,L]
 
DarkGizmo said:
Site stealing my content:
Code: 
https://evention.pk/threads/legacy-of-kain-is-back.45/#post-48
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for this thread, wrap their URL via [c0de] tags, so their site doesnt get xenforo link juice (I dont know how SEO really works).

Looks like they just started.
1727272911606.webp

When I click continue reading ... it has your site in the URL.
1727273192451.webp
 
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I disabled RSS long ago, via cloudflare:
Code: 
(http.request.uri.path contains "/index.rss")

Related, I found this thread on reddit a couple months ago.
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briansol said:
Make a thread calling out their site.

whatever.pk is a scam site, full of scammy scammers who like scam for dinner.
wait for it to show up on their site

delete the thread from your site.


Put a custom rule to redirect that rss url from that referrer to a very bad site with very bad rss feed.

ban them from google-

Report Content for Legal Reasons - Legal Help

Requesting content removals from Google products for Legal reasons We take inappropriate content seriously If you see content on a Google produc
support.google.com

do it once per thread.


Send a DMCA


Then, if they are still stealing stuff, send their rss requests to 'hell'.

Code: 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://(www\.)?evention\.pk [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forums/-/index.rss$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://reallybadsite.com/theirrssurl [R=301,L]
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If i add that to my ,htaccess, what happens?

Also do i need to edit the last line "reallybadsite.com"?
 
DarkGizmo said:
So it was brought to my attention another forum is stealing my forum's content. I believe this is done via an RSS feed. What can be done about this? The forum is fairly new and has no real content of it's own. I also suspect it's running a nulled/pirated version of Xenforo (I already reported it)

What can be done to get this forum taken down? Or at least have my forum's content removed? and then prevent this from happening again? Thanks.
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You control what go to your RSS via forum permissions. If guests can view it they can get it via RSS. Turn off guest via ACP user group permissions > Unregistered.

2.webp
 
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