I searched google for one of my articles and I noticed that the website https://laptrinhx.com had copied over a hundred of my blog posts and were re-publishing them at https://laptrinhx.com/tag/fearby-com

I could see they copied 127 of my blog posts. They never asked for my permission.

laptrinhx.com is copying the text content and were loading resources from my website.

A quick browse revealed that they were copying hundreds of other peoples websites and passing it off as guest posts.

It looks like they are well known for stealing peoples content

• I found this site too a couple of days ago: https://laptrinhx.com/authors/ | by Jeff Barton | Medium
• (20) 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝟘𝟛𝟝 on Twitter: “Thanks you Twitter for helping me out again! Time to start filing some complaints at @Cloudflare about some stolen content I guess 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/bEPheV4JDZ” / Twitter

Who are https://laptrinhx.com?

I could not see an about page or contact form but I can see these websites in the footer

• https://laptrinhx.com/
• https://bdev.dev/
• https://raoxyz.com/
• https://congtyaz.com/

It looks like Cloudflare is their Registrar.

Reporting Abuse to Cloudflare

I opened the Cloudflare Report Abuse Page

• https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

I submitted a report with the URL’s

Let’s see how long until Cloudflare takes down the pages.

Reporting the issue to the website owner

I also visited Cloudflare’s contact form (https://domaincontact.cloudflareregistrar.com/laptrinhx.com) for the site owner and requested they take down my content.

At first Cloudflare’s form failed to submit.

After a few retries I was able to submit this.

I was not happy with Cloudflare’s terse message about the site owner is under no obligation to reply.

If Cloudflare does not resolve this I am under no obligation to pay Cloudflare for services for my website.

Blocking Traffic from their domains

I edited my /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file and added the following rules to block requests from their servers.

if ($http_referer ~* "laptrinhx.com") {
        return 404;
}

if ($http_referer ~* "bdev.dev") {
        return 404;
}

if ($http_referer ~* "raoxyz.com") {
        return 404;
}

if ($http_referer ~* "congtyaz.com") {
        return 404;
}

I loaded the config and restarted NGINX

sudo nginx -t
sudo nginx -s reload
sudo service nixstatsagent restart

I checked the status of NGINX to ensure it came back up.

sudo systemctl status nginx

I will keep adding refer blocks if they are using other domains to scrape my site.

FYI: I resolved a CDN issue and also asked my CDN provider (EWWW Image Optimizer) to block image loads from these domains. EWWW.io are awesome.

I will keep updating this post with news from Cloudflare etc.

Good luck content owners.

Update: July 2021, Still no reply from Cloudflare, I submitted a second Copyright form with Cloudflare

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