Good article, and I feel your pain. Sometimes it feels like there's no point creating anything anymore, because shitty people will just steal it. In case you'r

Good article, and I feel your pain. Sometimes it feels like there's no point creating anything anymore, because shitty people will just steal it. In case you're interested, though, I just wanted to point out that there are things you can do. In my experience, Google does respond to requests to scrub infringing sites from their results if you submit their Copyright Claim form. They even give you a dashboard with the status of your claims. Probably worth trying your luck if you can be bothered. Also, many of the theives have X and Bluesky accounts, and I don't believe either of these services let users censor replies to them. There's also the payment platforms that are collecting money for your stolen work on behalf of these guys. They might be interested to hear about what's going on. Then there's the hosting companies themselves, of course, hosting the infringing websites. It's a pain, and it would be better if you could just create stuff and people weren't shitty, but we live in a fallen world and sometimes you gotta defend yourself. Up to you, of course, and I totally get it if you don't have the energy, but I've been through the same thing and you do have some power.