This is perhaps the greatest confusion caused in the blogsphere. Accusations are already being levied against each other by the like of Elliott and Scoble. And the man behind all these controversies is the evil John Comokaz who maintains CrazyFactor.com. Scoble was pissed off when he saw his content being stolen and published as author’s own. He had suspicion on Elliott and also wrote a mail to google adsense to suspend his account
Hey, Google AdSense team: Elliott Back is breaking your rules. He is reprinting my content (and, I’ve come to learn, other people’s content) without permission. He is spamming everyone’s trackbacks (to have my content show up in people’s blogs I link to, which drives traffic over to his Web site). He is causing damage to the Internet. Please remove Google’s ads from his page and remove the incentive to do this kind of stuff. I have NOT given him permission to reprint my stuff in whole. You’ll notice that this is a splog written by Elliott Back and you’re just helping him profit off of this kind of behavior.
You’re causing your advertisers brand damage by including your advertisements on this guy’s page. Thanks for listening!
Please let me know how you are going to handle this guy. A reputable company that says “do no evil� should immediately stop doing business with a slimeball like this. Thanks!
But as Elliott clarifies here….
Unfortunately, the blog in question is using a syndication plugin I wrote for WordPress, which as a side-effect includes attribution to my blog under the heading “software by Elliott Back.� It’s unreasonable to believe that someone would be confused as to the authorship by that, or that an internet-guru like Scoble would forget to do a WHOIS lookup. As a result of Scoble’s post, Adsense disabled my ads for part of the day, resulting in lost revenue and who knows what else. You would think they had measures in place to prevent this, but it appears not.
If anything, the lesson to be learned here is twofold: think and do your research before making severe moral or criminal accusations, and that the blogosphere A-list is too powerful. One person shouldn’t be able to bring down someone else’s revenue streams with a wave of their finger.
Finally Scobleapologized
UPDATE: Looked like Elliott Back was the author of that site, but now I learn he just wrote the software (Elliott just called me and says he’s not involved). This guy John Comokaz (stickybuns@gmail.com) is bothering Elliott too, by dragging his Elliott’s name through the mud. I just did a whois lookup and found the guy who does the crazyfactor site is John Comokaz.
Anyway, now that I have more facts I see that John Comokaz is doing CrazyFactor which is stealing my content without proper attribution, spamming blogs via trackbacks, and doing other crappy things. Anything we can do about this guy?
Sorry to Elliott Back. I should have done a whois to start with.
Its seems our evil man is pissing off Ajay too.
Anyways i don’t need to worry about all these. Badi logo ki badi baateen. Why would someone take my article and publish as his own, well only if he is in love with me 
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