Stolen Site

My friends forum database has just been stolen and used on another website.

The forum database which was stolen was not copyrighted.

What can he do other than contacting the host to remove the site ?

 

What country is he & the offenders from? In most, that database would've been copyrighted automatically as it was created

 

Depends on what country he is in and what country the person is in. He can do what he pleases up to and including filing a civil lawsuit. Now, that won't matter much if the content and/or person is located in a different country, especially one that has some of the more lax copyright laws.

 

Both are India

 

Then I guess your friend will have to forget his database being stolen...

 

i dont think u can do something abt it, most of the databases r getting stolen now a days.

 

really, ok will let him know

 

Yes i think you cant do anything for this too. I think there must be a .htaccess setting to not to be able to stolen db.

 

Your friends' host should be the one responsible for that or really the settings of the forum as aTk said, the .htaccess.

 

What should we put in .htacces to prevent this?

 

How could that happen? was it hacked?

 

Not hacked, the theif saw the forum backup in the attachments folder and just downloaded it.

 

lolz, who told u to keep it so OPEN , always make sure tht these type of things r safe , anyways just move on , he cant do much frm ur DB.

 

How could it happened.let me know which is that site.

 

That's bad thing they hack your database?

 

Not mine, my friends.

But is there a solution for him ?

 

If they both belong to the same jurisdiction, check out your local laws. Automatic copyrighting of databases at the time of creation is not usually a feature of jurisdictions, but it never hurts to check out what your copyright law says. In any case, there might be basis for a moral rights action, via a civil proceedings.

 

Thanks will do

 

How would he of gotten the DB? and once it's published on the web, it's copyrighted

 

So, If india, then no way. you site is stolen..
But you may start your work going and atleast consult some guy developer and get
your site secured..