Comments on: Why is bitacle stealing all our blogs??

By: Cyber Lawyer India

Cyber Lawyer India — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:07:04 +0000

I think, every one need to join in and report Bitacle.org, as a spam to Google.com at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

By: Why I publish using full feeds, and sploggers, scrapers, and other thieves bedamned. :: Plain Jane Mom Blog.

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:08:32 +0000

[...] Last September I blogged about Bitacle and how they were stealing people’s blog content and making money from it. The “fix” I recommended was to stop publishing full-posts in your feed and just publish the first few sentences. [...]

By: Plain Jane Mom » Bitacle update (you know, the blog thieves)

Plain Jane Mom » Bitacle update (you know, the blog thieves) — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:49:56 +0000

[...] Don’t know what bitacle is? If you have a blog you should find out. Check out my first post. I’ll wait… [...]

By: melissa b.

melissa b. — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:35:02 +0000

I have the same thing happening! Arggghhh. Thank you!

By: Bitacle continues to bask in Advertising Revenues

Bitacle continues to bask in Advertising Revenues — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:14:50 +0000

[...] Bloggers are outraged, just titles speak for themselves – All your blogs are belong to Bitacle Bitchacle Bitacle: thieves now open for business in the 8th circle of hell (a good summary of the issue) Why is bitacle stealing all our blogs?? BITACLE DEBACLE CONTINUES — BLOGGERS OUTRAGED — NO NEWS COVERAGE BY OLD MEDIA? Bitacle is Heisting My Content Those Bastards!!(Bitacle.org) [...]

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:01:36 +0000

Thanks Niccolò! I think the 72.78.117.236 IP has turned out to be be Owen's but other than that, this looks great. Thanks!

By: Niccolò Zamborlini

Niccolò Zamborlini — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:38:15 +0000

Here you a better .htaccess configuration

This new rule wont stupidly block it, it will simply redirect him to a 403 error. MUHAHAH! :D


RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^212\.22\.59\.251$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^72\.78\.117\.236$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Bitacle
RewriteRule .? - [F]

and also, just to be sure, you can add these rules to your robots.txt


User-agent: Bitacle bot/1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bitacle bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bitacle
Disallow: /

In italian is “Un harvester buono è un harvester morto” (“A good harvester is a died harvester”) :)

Bye bye!

By: Suburban Turmoil

Suburban Turmoil — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:47:55 +0000

Wow. I had never even heard of this! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:46:55 +0000

I wrote a WordPress plugin that can block sploggers like Bitacle that I've released on my blog. It's not as comprehensive as good .htaccess settings, but it's a bit easier to configure and lets you fight back a bit.

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:00:53 +0000

Thank you Niccolò and valerie! I’ll see if that works on my next post.