Why Do People Steal Our Blog Posts?

Unfortunately, content thieves are lurking around in the blogosphere to see whose blog posts they can steal.

If your blog posts are spectacular, they will go right ahead and steal them.

And, if your blog posts are the most horribly written blog posts on the planet, there is a chance of them stealing those too.

Apparently, no one is immune from content theft; if you have never had any of your blog posts stolen, it simply means that the content thieves are not ready to steal them (They are probably waiting for the right time to go with them).

I had my blog posts stolen on a few occasions; each time it happened, I filed a DMCA takedown request.

By the way, if you have noticed that someone on WordPress.com has stolen your work, you can report them; Report a Site by the WordPress.com Support Team shows you how you can do that.

However, if the offender’s blog is outside the parameters of WordPress.com, you will have to do things a bit differently; the article, How Can I File A DMCA Takedown Notice?, will teach you the right steps to take.

Now, with that out of the way, it is time to explore some reasons why someone would go through the trouble of stealing one (or many) of your blog posts.

They Are Downright Lazy

You should not be surprised by the fact, that there are bloggers who are lazy (They view blogging as an extremely arduous task).

To make things easy for themselves, they find a blog post that they like copy it, paste it and publish it on their blogs (That, my friend, is blatant content theft).

I will admit that creating blog posts might be a bit difficult for the newbie blogger, but the newbie blogger keeps at it until they complete their blog post (The process might take way longer than the average blogger would take to complete their blog post, but they get it done nonetheless).

Also, creating a blog of one’s own is not rocket science.

The biggest irony is that there are numerous tutorials on the internet that teach people how to write a blog post.

Therefore, not knowing how to write a blog post is a poor excuse (Especially if he or she considers themselves to be a blogger).

Apparently, those people are too downright lazy to care, so they publish other people’s blog posts on their blog without the original author’s consent.

Those types of people will continue to steal blog posts until the original author calls them out on their fraudulent practice.

They Want To Make The Most Amount Of Money As Fast As Possible

There are content thieves with monetized blogs; what they do is steal other people’s content, publish it, stamp their own name on it and hope that the original author never finds out.

These types of people steal your content because the more content that they have on their blogs equals more revenue.

Those unscrupulous people will continue stealing other people’s blog posts until they get caught red-handed.

They Do Not Know Better

Some teenagers and young adults copy the blog posts from others that they like and publish them on their blogs; their intentions are not malicious; they simply wanted to curate content (Unfortunately, they went about it the wrong way).

Those bloggers who are ignorant of their crimes end up getting themselves into trouble with the law (A committed act of crime is still considered a criminal act whether or not the person is aware of the infringement).

Those types of people will stop publishing other people’s work without their consent when someone brings it to their attention that they are breaking the law.

The Bottom Line

So, now you have a much better understanding of the reasons why people steal our blog posts.

There are people who are fully aware that they are committing an offence by stealing other people’s blog posts.

Whereas, there are those who are ignorant; they are unaware of the fact that they have actually committed plagiarism (Which is a serious offence in many parts of the world).

However, both parties will find themselves in legal trouble for partaking in content theft.