how would you report it or start a lawsuit if they are in another country ? how would you prove the content is yours originally. ? I heard 1 guy on DP had his whole site copied, 20,000 pages !!! from a place in Taiwan. Since the emerging countries are advancing rapidly and have very good webmasters it is becoming increasingly important to have an international law or guideline for these situations.
I think you can also do the "mail yourself a copy of your TM/C material" (at least in the USA). Of course, a judge would have to open the postmarked envelope in court, if you ever had to take it that far.
This says it best. And the problem is, there are too many kids running illegal hosting companies now-a-days. And a lot of people might ignore that fact but really, a $150,000 lawsuit or a battle with the IRS? If the kids that own illegal hosting companies are willing to possibly get in trouble with the IRS, then they probably aren't too concerned about a $150,000. This is why it is extremely important you go with professionals and not some kid who setup a website and claims to own a "company".
You could also use ioncube in some circumstances. http://www.ioncube.com/online_encoder.php http://www.ioncube.com/pricing.php You have got to be carefull with hosting, I waited 24 hours for a very big company to fix yum on one of my servers. Spry.com also use an outdated and unsupported ditsro of fedora core (4) which is unforgiavble, so anyone using these places is running huge security risk. Just get a good copyright and encode if you can.
24 hours to fix yum? Yes thats a long time and a problem. The fact your using yum? That is also a problem.