Fery Tjahyono. Internet thief. Does Fery have your content?

OK, everyone. Listen up!

I am taking a break from my regular writing subjects, to pass an announcement on to everyone. It is an important announcement about an Internet thief by the name of, Fery Kurniawan Tjahyono.

I am mentioning this thief, because of the magnitude of this person's network of sites.

I was browsing through my Technorati pages yesterday evening, and noticed a blog reaction from an unknown source. Upon clicking to this site, I came to a blog with several of my most recent posts. Not just excerpts, links, or partial content, but entire posts.

I used the evening to investigate, and my search led me to Fery on Technorati owning 90 blogs with stolen content. The subjects of the sites range from personal writing, to technical blogs, marketing, art, etc. I cannot even remember them all, as there were so many. That which is peculiar, is the way the content is posted, and it gives the impression that entire feeds and traffic is being redirected to the sites (an assumption). The system seems to be automated, and is most likely necessary as there are so many sites to keep up. Fery is using this 90 site network to earn money through Adsense, and who knows how many more sites there are. Technorati has 90 listed.

The story does not end there. After tracing Fery's information, writing him/her e-mails about stolen content, asking that my content be removed, and informing Adsense and Technorati, I called it a night. However, there was still something nagging at me this morning, so I continued my search. I did a search on this person's name, and a few interesting links showed up. The first article was by Danny Brown, a blogger that has recently had the same problem with Fery. Danny wrote a post entitled, Fery Kurniawan Tjahyono and the case of the Internet thief...
Another link presented the information that Fery is making enormous amounts of Adsense money from the stolen content of others.

Personally, I would like to know when others run across 'big' thieves, such as Fery. It gives people the chance to check to see if their content is stolen, and take action. However, articles like these need to get around, otherwise people aren't exposed to the information.

I spent quite a bit of time on this, so I'm passing the info on, so that others can benefit from the search. Here is some useful information about Fery:

You can find his listed sites on Technorati, and his username is, ximplix. The user page is;
technorati.com/people/technorati/ximplix
Take a look, and see if your content can be found on one of these sites. You'll be surprised at what you find.

Fery's e-mail address is;
Fery Kurniawan Tjahyono (unholy20@gmail.com)

user information to the site I found my content on, is;
http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=emree.net&prog_id=godaddy

The link to the Adsense TOS violation form;
www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?search_ask=1&subtopic=&contac...
It only takes a couple of minutes to fill this short form out.

I followed the reporting procedure I read at, onecoolsite.wordpress.com . The link will lead you to the mentioned post. It did not take much time to go through the steps, once I had finished searching for all of the information.

Lastly. I am asking you all to bookmark this article to your social sites, whether they be; stumbleupon, delicious, digg, or whatever. These are the avenues in which we bloggers communicate information. So, pass it on to people on your list of friends. Your content may not be stolen by Fery, but the content of someone on one of your lists may be stolen. This info will help them out, and save everyone time. It may be yourself in the near future.

And, to Fery. Immediately remove my content from your sites, and the content of everyone else.