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Oh, the Horror!
Our content is being hijacked!
I have begun to see a number of articles about Medium’s change in Medium’s Terms of Service. I have not been disturbed by this change because, since I first began writing on Medium more than two years ago in June 2018, I could see in the details of my Stats that my content was being hijacked.
See below the stats on this article from June 2018:
Sometimes as much as 83% of my views are for an external sources such as these.
Can you imagine if Medium had to pursue the illegal theft of 100,000+ writers’ work being republished? I get why they wish to absolve themselves of this responsibility.
We must assess the risk we take of having our writing used by others. Many times I have been followed by fake accounts that have been writing for about 2 weeks and look as fake as a $3 bill. I have occasionally looked up the one or two articles posted on these accounts and found that they have been taken from personal blogs or other sources.
I do not know the purpose of these fake profiles unless it is to get access to steal intellectual property.
