Fighting a Splog – 33Rocker.com !!

From the past couple of weeks a guy called Karthik was annoying me through IM, he was asking me to make his theme (Fauxed) XHTML Complaint. I had initially agreed, but later I realized that he was just another spammer. His theme Fauxed is ripped from 5thirtyone

His blog is filled with content ripped from other blogs, Moreover he doesn’t give proper attributes to the original author. I politely asked him to give a credits, but he straight away refused and it forced me to take these counter measures

Ripped Articles:
Original: Creating a Job Board for your Blog is as Simple as 1,2,3
Ripped: Create a Job Board For Your Blog

Original: How to Make Firefox Look & Act like IE, Opera, Flock and Netscape
Ripped: Make Firefox Look Like IE, Opera, Flock or Netscape

I’m quite sure these are more ripped article, none of them look original. I was shocked to see Darren Rowse from Problogger.net linking to his ripped article, I’ve also spotted few other bloggers linking to his splog.

Spammer’s short Bio:

Name: Karthik
Email: coolkarthik88@gmail.com
Domain: http://33rockers.com
Address: Karthik,
5-184 “Ashwin”,
5th Main V.P Nagar,
Udupi, Karnataka – 576102

For more info, check out his Orkut profile or check out 33Rockers.com Whois. He has a Pagerank of 6 and a impressive Technorati Ranking (It think its due Fauxed).

My friend Sindhu and few other Bloggers faced a similar problem out of this guy, luckily that guy is already busted out of AdSense and I’m planning to send a DMCA report to Google and few other search engines to kill traffic out of his blog. Once the traffic stops flowing in, he’ll run out of air to breath. I’ve also notified his host regarding this copyright infringement, lets see what comes up.

Please notify me if you’ve spotted any spammer stealing my posts.

Update: Fauxed theme is ripped from Derek’s 5ThirtyOne v2.0 !! + Check out what Derek has to say about Karthik