Copycat site

Just a heads-up - looks like a site called WhatGear has been scraping Equipboard and creating a copycat site. I'm seeing some of my Equipboard gear submissions duplicated over there, product images and artist photos are identical to the ones on Equipboard. Ironically, they're trying to claim their website is "DMCA Protected".

You might want to consider leaving a few Trap Streets in some Equipboard listings to catch them out & prove they're scraping data from you.

Quick story: Many years ago I wrote the online tech glossary for a popular website. We had a bunch of competitors scraping us constantly, we were able to catch them out because I hid references to friends & girlfriends in my definitions. Our incredibly smart boss - instead of issuing a takedown notice, he sent them a licensing agreement for our content instead. Those hidden references created an extra annual revenue stream for the company & a bunch of backlinks from direct competitors.

this has been discussed already but your idea to monetize the fix is pretty interesting.... personally I feel this copycat site should be paying me a royalty for every one of my in depth, hands on reviews they plagiarize. EB can thank me in gear IQ, but these bozos? I feel a little violated.... my encyclopedic knowledge of dynamics processors for example has been hard won through years of working on music I would never ordinarily listen to. I feel grumpy and underpaid all over again knowing another site could be recycling my insights.