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Update Dec 5 2024: I was notified on Nov 26 2024 by Alyssa's web host that they were taking down her website, and it was that evening; they said they'd reinstate if she agreed to take down the infringing content, which she did, so it went back up the next day. She didn't take the content down right away though, so I was worried she lied, but almost a week later, she finally did take it down (so none of the links to her site below will work anymore; you can still view what was up with the PDF file though). The only thing left up is the Jupiter & Saturn blog article (because you can only report something you have an official copyright for, and I didn't for that article at the time; for now I'm just going to have it removed from Google, and monitor if she posts anything else of mine, and I'll report it then if she does). So for now, this is done. However, this whole episode has been brutal for me, so I will be going on an indefinite hiatus starting mid December 2024. I need to reset after this whole debacle. Original post Oct 28 2024: I post this article not about astrology, but about something I've been dealing with for the last couple of months. In late August, someone reached out to me to let me know that it appeared astrologer Alyssa Sharpe had copied some of my work. It turned out that Alyssa stole from 9 different interpretations pages and published them on her website as her own, and just this month also published one of my blog articles from 2011. Before continuing with the story, I'm pausing to mention that after sharing the story, there will be links to all of the content that was stolen because it's all still up. You don't have to take my word for it and can see it for yourself. I'm not being paranoid, or reading into things, or being vague. It's word-for-word copied in entirety. I'll also link to a PDF file I created of screenshots of what she stole side-by-side with my content to make it easy to see. I'm also adding: I don't want anyone attacking Alyssa. Don't send her any threats, don't try to dox her, don't track down or go after her family. That only makes it harder for me (I don't want to be sued for your bad behavior). As emotional as I've been, I've tried to take action in a calm manner, and I expect the same from you. Even if she's not being mature, that's not an excuse for us, so let's be adults. So, when I found this out, I was absolutely shocked and heartbroken. I don't know Alyssa personally, and only had a few interactions with her a long time ago. But I only became aware of her because she claimed she was a fan of my work and was recommending my site to people. Our interactions were perfectly lovely, and I had no reason to think she would do something like this years later. I reached out to Alyssa after finding out; it appears she doesn't allow messages via social media so I couldn't get any of those to go through, and emailed four times. There was no response from her at any point. I also reached out to some people in this niche to see if anyone knew how to contact her, but none did. I would've liked an explanation and apology and for all of it to be taken down, but I would've settled for it just being taken down. I was hoping that she would at least do that. In the PDF, I included screenshots of the messages I sent her and you can clearly see I gave her an out (pages 127-129). I hoped we could settle things quietly ourselves without it escalating. I've been told I should sue her for copyright infringement, but I can't afford the retainer for a lawyer. And even if I could, I don't want to put myself through the soul-sucking mess of litigation. I've personally known many, and have done plenty of readings for even more, who were caught up in lawsuits for years and it was wrecking their lives. I don't want to do that to myself. There is a sorta-lawsuit-non-lawsuit option with the Copyright Claims Board - a part of the U.S. Copyright Office - but it's capped at infringements no more than 30 thousand dollars. Because she's stolen so much, this would be much higher than that [potentially millions], so that's not an option. After those, there's something called a DMCA Takedown Notice, which is basically just an official notice that the person needs to take the infringing content down in a certain amount of time. But if they don't, you have to file a lawsuit in two weeks, otherwise they can keep it up - and as I've already said, a lawsuit isn't something I can or want to pursue. So now, I'm doing the remedies I can do, which is to report her to Google to have the stolen content removed from search results - because her content is being served up alongside mine, and in some cases, instead of mine, in Google search. And I'm reporting her to her web host, who can bypass her and take the content down, though it's possible they'll take down her entire website since she's stolen so much. I've been working on both of these, but it can take time to be reviewed, so I don't know how long it'll be before anything happens, if it does. One thing I absolutely positively did NOT want to do at all was to go public about all of this. But when she posted the blog article just a few weeks ago, I realized she's not going to stop, and I'd need to take these steps with Google and her web host. And in taking these steps, I realized there's a high probability she will lash out and try to weaponize her audience against me, so I have to come forward with the story first. She clearly can't be trusted with the truth. But to say this tears me up inside is a huge understatement. I've literally been sick since deciding to do this. I've always tried to stay out of online messes. I know some people love to feud online, but I think that's a waste of time and immature. I've never done it, ever, in my career or in my personal life. Alyssa has a much bigger following than I do, and I worry about what they'll do to me upon seeing this. Those with strong parasocial relationships with her could do harm. We all know what happens to someone who makes allegations against someone with a louder megaphone. It usually doesn't work out too well for them. So I'm taking a really big chance here, but it feels like she's left me with no other option. I'm putting this here on the blog, as well as on social media, and sent out a newsletter to my email list. I want to get ahead of her; even if she has shut off all messaging, she will definitely notice if her website is taken down, and she seems rather unpredictable. The links:Click HERE for the PDF file I put together with all of the screenshots [in case it gets taken down before you can see the pages yourself, and to make it easy to see].
Her first house page [scroll to the signs in your 1st house]: https://alyssacsharpe.com/the-1st-house/ And mine: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-1st-house.html Her eleventh house page [she added the negative aspect you cannot change notes]: https://alyssacsharpe.com/11th-house/ And mine: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-11th-house.html Her twelfth house page [she added the your shame notes]: https://alyssacsharpe.com/12th-house/ And mine: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-12th-house.html And all of the composite planet pages: Her Sun: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-sun/ My Sun: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-composite-sun.html Her Moon: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-moon/ My Moon: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-composite-moon.html Her Venus: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-venus-by-house-sign/ My Venus: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/composite-venus.html Her Mars [she added notes on sexuality]: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-mars/ My Mars: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/composite-mars.html Her Jupiter: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-jupiter-by-house-sign/ My Jupiter: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/composite-jupiter.html Her Saturn: https://alyssacsharpe.com/composite-saturn/ My Saturn: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/composite-saturn.html And the latest Jupiter and Saturn blog article: - hers: https://alyssacsharpe.com/jupiter-saturn/ - mine: https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/blog/jupiter-saturn My pages are also saved on the Wayback Machine aka the internet archives. The houses were saved on October 21 2013: 1st house: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021093945/https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-1st-house.html 11th house: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021093226/https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-11th-house.html 12th house: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021093231/http://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-12th-house.html The houses info she has on her site were from her old site, which is archived, but she didn't add the 11th and 12th house pages until the new site [new site started in late 2022]. The 1st house page on the old site did NOT have my 1st house in the signs interpretations, so this also must've been added with the new site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160603235610/http://alyssasharpe.com/2015/03/the-1st-house/ And the houses archive for her old site shows there was no 11th and 12th house article by her, so they're new: https://web.archive.org/web/20160612055245/http://alyssasharpe.com/category/houses/page/3/ I did search for any composite pages on her old site but there were none archived, if there were any. My composite planets pages were archived on April 4th 2016, just a few days after they were published on April 1st [which I posted on Facebook when they were]: - on the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20160404032621/https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/the-composite-sun.html - on FB: https://www.facebook.com/thedarkpixieastrology/posts/945229272264757 And the Jupiter and Saturn blog article was archived May 30th 2014 (but published in 2011 as shown on the blog): https://web.archive.org/web/20140530112611/https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/blog/jupiter-saturn The article was updated last year; I can't remember when exactly since I did a full blog audit, but it was archived in September 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230922021607/https://www.thedarkpixieastrology.com/blog/jupiter-saturn Comments are closed.
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