Stolen website on Google sub domaine? What should I do?

[Igor Pakhomov]

Hello, Moderators.

Checking my website, I get that some website steals my content (here is it http://flawedgate.appspot.com/cardo-ua.com/17-new-collections) This website copied my website cardo-ua.com

As I see this sub domaine is placed on the domane http://appspot.com which belong the google.

So I have a questions:

1. Is it legal? To sponsor the thief?

2. Can you delete this site-thief from your domaine?

3. How to safe my site data from the repetition?

[Anastasios Hatzis]

Hi Igor!

appspot.com is used as a domain for all Google App Engine apps. The routing is based on the pattern appid.appspot.com where appid is your application ID. This is done for all GAE applications so they are available even if no custom domains are used. The appspot.com addresses can also be used to directly access specific app versions, modules or instances if needed.

Please check if your App Engine application ID is flawedgate. If it is, then this not a case of plagiarism, but just an alternative address of your app.

[Philip Kilner]

Hi,

Based on the page at: -

http://flawedgate.appspot.com/

...and what happens when you enter Google's own domain there: -

http://flawedgate.appspot.com/google.com

...the site in question seems to simply be a proxy.

HTH


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Regards,

PhilK


'a bell is a cup...until it is struck'

[Igor Pakhomov]

Thanks Anastasios, for the quick answer.

Please check if your App Engine application ID is flawedgate. If it is, then this not a case of plagiarism, but just an alternative address of your app.

Where can I see this ID? 

[Igor Pakhomov]

Thank you PhilK.

Please help me, what should I do to prevent indexing this pages by search engines?

[Anastasios Hatzis]

PhilK is right, this app is just like a proxy.

My first impression was that you are a Google App Engine customer, or you use a service that is hosted on GAE. But it looks like this app will just proxy every domain that is entered. There can be plenty of reasons why someone operates proxy servers, e.g. for safety reasons inside a company network, however normally for private user groups. You as a site owner normally shouldn't be affected by it.

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Igor,

Yeah this does just look like a proxy. There is no harm that can be done to your website this way, as this literally calls your website and displays it through the App Engine.

As for your comment about indexing, I don't get what you mean, as flawedgate doesn't seem to be indexed. (looking for "flawedgate cardo-ua 17-new-collections" returns me your website, this thread, and nothing about the proxy). 

If you still believe there is some abuse and we would need to investigate, I would suggest filling this form. The proper team will then investigate and take the appropriate measures.

Cheers!

[Igor Pakhomov]

Thank you guys,

It looks like a proxy but I've worried about double content in the google index and I checked again and realised you are right I shouldn't worry about.

But some times I face the site who copy my website and I don't know what should I do. Maybe you know?

[Jim]

Igor,

Sounds like the above is simply a proxy server, but if you're facing other situations where people are actually stealing your content, you may have legal remedies depending on the jurisdiction.  In the US your content is protected under copyright law and you should be able to get people's attention with a "DMCA Takedown Notice" which can be submitted to the ISP of the offending party.  The DMCA prescribes the process which the ISP must follow to investigate and handle your claim.  

Jim

https://www.copyrightalliance.org/2012/03/in-plain-english-a-quick-guide-to-dmca-takedown-notices#.VkI_RrerTyM