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Criminals, Thieves, and Lack of Transparency

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 2, 2011

Every so often, my blog gets plagiarized. I do a whois, find the offending party, have a short email conversation, and get that person to remove my content, and forget the whole thing ever happened.

Not now. Right now, I’m having a very dissatisfying email conversation with domainsbyproxy.com, DBP. They are protecting creativedevelopment.biz, CD. You will notice that I have not made them urls, by design. As far as I can tell, both of them are evil.

I called DBP today, to talk to someone—anyone about the emails from them that I do not understand. When you find abuse, you are supposed to report the abuse, and they follow up by email. I have provided my original writing link. I have provided the plagiarized link. I have provided evidence of copyright. They are asking for a good faith statement (which should not be necessary since I have claimed copyright), which I believe I have provided. I asked to talk to a manager. No manager was available. I asked to speak to someone who signed the paycheck of the person I spoke with. No one was available. The nice person told me they were all about security.

This is not security. This is about protecting criminals. This is about making it impossible to see who is doing business on the net. I would go as far to say that if you do business with DBP, you are the kind of person I do not want to do business with. You keep company with people who steal.

I put you people on notice. You want “security,” fine. I’m outing you whenever I cross paths with you. I will find bigger fish to tell. You common thief. Hide all you want. We will find you, out you, and crush you. Eventually.

Johanna Rothman

About Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable things that might work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. She’s written these books:

  • Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
  • Become a Successful Independent Consultant
  • Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
  • Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
  • Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
  • From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
  • Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
  • Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
  • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
  • Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
  • Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
  • Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
  • Manage Your Job Search
  • Hiring Geeks That Fit
  • The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
  • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)

In addition to articles and columns on various sites, Johanna writes the Managing Product Development blog on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a personal blog on createadaptablelife.com.

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