Some of you may remember about a pastor I wrote about who stole an article of mine. I've finally decided which route I want to take. I'm just going to get the host to take the guy's blog down with a DMCA. The problem is, this guy is the webhost! He owns his own hosting company and is hosting his sites on it. I've figured out my options: 1. I can send him a DMCA and tell him to take his own site down. 2. I can email his server provider, gnax.com (check the bottom of their page to see how they do SEO), and tell them to take the guy's whole server down. He has his own blog plus a few sites that belong to other people on it. 3. Can I tell the server provider to only take the guy's site down and not his server? Do you they have the power to do that? Which would you do?
Why didn't you ask him to remove your article? Your measures seem a bit extreme over one article, but I'm new to the whole scheme of things. I would opt for the less severe action to start off with. I mean, instead of the site going down, make a demand to remove your content.
It may seem severe, but people stealing my content is causing my fledgling website to perform poorly in the SERPS. Because my site is so new, I'm afraid Google will think my site stole the content and penalize me. Not to mention the person is a pastor and should know stealing is wrong.
A couple of options: you could create a domain like "pastor-aaaa-stole-from-me" and post your story on there so the search engines would index it or write your story on a flyer and hand it out to members of his congregation as they come to church one Sunday. That may sound like a lot of work for just one article but the point of the matter is the this person stole from you and is in a position of trust amongst a community. If he steals from one person chances are he will steal from others and maybe by exposing his lying ways you will be helping others you don't know about.
The first step is to inform him. Be fair and explain him. The second step is to use your nuclear facility.
If you're referring to this one: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299025 Why not try to resolve the issue with the pastor first if you haven't done so? Then if he either doesn't reply or he refuses to do as you ask within a period of time, then you can probably take the issue to his upstream provider.