Hi: Someone stolen a live website from my PC. And online it with different name. But with same layout, same text, same keywords, same logo..... Every thing is same..... Even portfolio is same.... I am from Pakistan. Now what is legal act to stop his website? I have contacted to their host. And they said, we can't do any act in this case.... My website is live from last 2 years. And the stolen website is up from last 15 days.... Thanks Burhan Khan
He is also located in Lahore, Pakistan. Actually he was my employee and due to some unethical activities i discard him from job. Later on he launched this website. Ofcourse he stolen my website when he was employee in my company.... I can't report in local police, because i don't think police will know the word WEBSITE.
You can sue the hosting company on this issue. So they will try from there level to get back the domain. OR Try to find out who is currently using your website, if he is out of Pakistan try to sort it out mutually, because there are very less chances to get back a domain from overseas. I am trying to get more details on this issue as I get, I will PM you.
Please don't miss-understand. Let me explain it again. I have website and it is still up. But someone stolen source code (PHP and database) of my website, and he launched it with the same design, same keywords and same portfolio in another new domain. I still have my website up! Thanks Burhan Khan
As I understand you are in the same city as the thief and you know who the thief are for sure. I would go and visit him or I would send some of my "good friends" to visit him to make sure that he take the site down. If he plays dirty, you can play dirty.
This is not ethical suggestion but you want to go dirty so….You can hire a hacker or find relevant forums to your website and post what he had done with you. There are hundred more but not like to disclose here… If your Content is having Copy Right then you can sue him else you can’t do any thing for it. Let me explain you how. I had developed spider which crawl a particular website and feed data in appropriate field in my database. Now if I spider a website of freedowloadcenter.com and fill all data in my clone website. Free download center can’t claim it. Because the content is user generated. But if I use there design with similar Domain name they might sue me. And after all this, if I survive, still I can’t reach popularity level which freedowloadcenter.com has build over the period of time. So my suggestion is don’t waste time if your content is not having Copy Right. Regards
or you can play really dirty and visit him with some friends to "persuade" him that his acts are wrong
Websouls is well known company in Lahore, i think you should contact this company with complete proof and your ex-employee profile. i hope they will help but if they dont help you then you should contact google and tell there all situation and also contact all service providers of this website. i hope google will ban his site due to duplicate content. Police cant solve this problem.
Send me a PM with your website URL, your stolen site URL and your MSN/YIM ID to get in touch with you. Provide me as much details as you can in PM I need to check (confirm) before I get myself involve in it. I am sure I can help you in this. (at least I can try to push them a bit harder) Have you contacted websouls.com for this matter ?? what they say about it ?