Well, I was doing a little reading of older articles on my blog, and I ran a google search for “Leiden Coffeeshop” which I used to rank quite high for, but have fallen far down the page. However, If you look at what is currently the seventh site in the list you’ll come upon this:

Pig’s eZine, News for travellers to Amsterdam- issue#4 …

coffee shop leiden Bebop, Diefsteeg 3 Nestled down an alley in Leiden, this small shop has cow-hair stools and zany space-aged ashtrays, and a view of the …
www.flyingpig.nl/ezine/issue4/coffeeshopsLeiden.html – 14k – Cached – Similar pages

Well well, that text looks mighty familiar to me. I have the strangest feeling I’ve seen it before somewhere. Oh, that’s right… I wrote it.

I’m offended and flattered at the same time. Some hostel company, in another hemisphere, with offices about a half hour away from the coffeeshops I reviewed, decided that my reviews were so good, that they should simply use the first paragraphs of two of them in their Ezine.

Well, I’m hoping that this can be resolved in a nice way. I’m thinking that if they place a link to my site in their “cool sites” section, then there will be no reason to push the fact that they’ve been illegally using my content for nearly two years now.

More to come as this unfolds…

I also find it funny that even when I run the exact article into copyscape, it returns no results.