I know....we did this and tried everything possible. when we checked about 4 mos ago it gave the IP as MX I contacted the blog server and they were very nice but said it is nothing they can control. and for me to try perhaps contacting BDN. I know that is useless. Ove tried contacting a few sources connected to the blog/web provider but rec no answer.
Mundo is BDN BTW
Here is what happened:
I was reading an article on the Stratfor website. I was a subscriber (since I was one of the people whose CC info was published I have not continued my sub)
And I see a reference to a manta, and a translation and it looked super familiar. Stratfor claimed the information was that of a blog called BlogDrugTrafficker. I had not heard of the blog but I followed the link and was stunned to see Gerardo's post about the manta...and when I say Gs it was his exact post but no credit to BB or G. I scrolled thru the BDT and saw it was a an exact copy of BB I went back 2 mos...exactly the same and in sequential order. I timed of how long it took for our posts to appear and it is about 3-5 min. They do not have the ability to post videos for some reason, so any of our posts with vids has a blank space on theirs
If you notice I put Borderland Beat at the top of my posts and always write "Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat" at the top for my original stuff. well that is why. when it copies and posts on BDT the BB remains...hee hee my little protest, getting bb credit one way or another.
Until then I never heard of software that clones a blog. I begain googling and using yahoo for searching if there were such an animal. and yes indeed there is! How that is legal is just beyond me. But there are sources in which one can buy the software. and if I recall the punk that runs BDN is a computer major at Mty Tec.
I told Buggs and a couple of reporters whats up. I am sure no one believed me at first, but then they looked, as you have, and were pretty much in shock also. Buggs went back even further than I had...and now it appears that their entire blog was made to be a clone of BB from the beginning. No other blog is used and no other posts. Just us.
We are reprinted and reposted by tons of sources, as long as they credit source BB that is fine. But understand that virtually all that is on Mundo and BDN is the work that is stolen from someone else. They Never give credit unless in is accidently provided in the story its self. I have plagiarism software that I can use to easily find original source of all their posts. None is theirs. Not to say they don't get vids and info sent to them now and then..we all do, but 99.999999% of theirs is the work of others. I am going to start watermarking vids sent to us. they do that on all the vids they post on mundo and BDN. We got the 49 NL massacre vid fresh. I wish I would have watermarked it.
Back to my story. So I wrote to Stratfor, I was professional and had attachments proving that BDT was a clone and the credit they gave was improper but that we had no doubt it was unintentional and without knowledge that BDT was stealing 100% of our posts and claiming it as theirs. I just knew once they were aware of it they would react.
They did not.
I wrote to a reporter that I provided information to when the Z200 thing broke in Guate he asked questions and I worked hard to get him good answers. I also wrote to all departments that should have reacted and did not even get a reply.
Everyone should know that STratfor does not want us to post any of their material. Recently Havana posted something and they were quick to write and say, in a nice way, to keep them out of our blog. I took the opportunity to write to that person :) and say how happy I am that they are so concerned about such things but am puzzled why they would not care when they, perhaps inadvertantly, have use our material sans credit. I attached a copy of my letter sent to them 4 times prior.
That person has not replied either...jajajaja
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