» Blog Archive » … and the Bitacle Saga Continues said:

[...] More and more bloggers have written about it: Shel is tracking down the guy who created Bitacle… Kevin is contacting the CEO of Netvibes… Val is posting ways to prevent them … Allan is throwing Bitacle into the 8th Circle of hell… Jeremiah is pondering if this imitation is a form of flattery… Plain Jane Mom is feeling creeped out… …and some German blogs are saying something, and it seems like they aren't too happy (even though I cant read German ). [...]
22 September 2006 at 5:41 am
Niccolò Zamborlini said:

U got the same problem of my blog. Simply Bitacle.
I resolved it with a .htaccess rule:

# STOP BITACLE!
RewriteEngine On
deny from 212.22.59.251
deny from bitacle.org

22 September 2006 at 5:52 am
valerie said:

Yup, block them, keep your RSS feeds as you want them. In addition to the IP above, they used 72.78.117.236 to access my site yesterday.
22 September 2006 at 7:39 am
Peggy said:

oooh…I haven't used bitacle…only technorati. How frustrating is that, though? Hope that can be resolved fast…
Psst…I've also tagged you…
~Peg
22 September 2006 at 7:50 am
Plain Jane Mom said:

Thank you Niccolò and valerie! I'll see if that works on my next post.
22 September 2006 at 10:00 am
Owen said:

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.
22 September 2006 at 12:46 pm
Suburban Turmoil said:

Wow. I had never even heard of this! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
22 September 2006 at 2:47 pm
Niccolò Zamborlini said:

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!
22 September 2006 at 6:38 pm
Plain Jane Mom said:

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!
22 September 2006 at 7:01 pm
Bitacle continues to bask in Advertising Revenues said:

[...] 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) [...]
23 September 2006 at 3:14 pm
melissa b. said:

I have the same thing happening! Arggghhh. Thank you!
25 September 2006 at 7:35 pm
Plain Jane Mom » Bitacle update (you know, the blog thieves) said:

[...] Don't know what bitacle is? If you have a blog you should find out. Check out my first post. I'll wait… [...]
28 September 2006 at 1:49 pm
Why I publish using full feeds, and sploggers, scrapers, and other thieves bedamned. :: Plain Jane Mom Blog. said:

[...] 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. [...]
24 January 2007 at 12:08 pm
Cyber Lawyer India said:

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
9 February 2007 at 11:07 pm

Leave a comment!