How to report a website to Amazon?

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    Glottis, Feb 3, 2009 IP
  2. allout

    allout Prominent Member

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    I am pretty sure what you have linked is to report copyright infringement for written works like books. Did someone steal material from a book you wrote?
     
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    I was only thinking from an affiliate point of view, and forgot about books there! No I didn't write a book, but someone stole articles from my website and other websites, and doesn't have any other content on his site. All stolen!

    How can I report them? At least with Google Adsense it's easy to do that...

    Thanks for replying.
     
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    allout Prominent Member

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    None of the affiliates deal with that. You can contact them but I doubt they will do anything. Best thing to do is contact the site owner and threaten legal action. If that does not work, trace their hosting account and contact their host and provide proof that they stole your stuff. Many host will suspend their account.

    You can find out the information at http://whois.sc
     
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    About that link above, I don't know why it's amazon.co.uk. I was browsing amazon.com at the time. LOL I must have been really sleepy at 4 am! The amazon.com page has a contact link, so here:

    https://affiliate-program.amazon.co...ssoc-center-2&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_i=assoc_help_t15

    And an update:

    I contacted them, and after about 20 hours, someone from Amazon came to my website. So the great news is that they at least read the emails we send them. Kudos for that!
     
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    So did the site get banned?

    Is stealing content actually against Amazon's associate policy?
     
    jmansel, Feb 6, 2009 IP
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    I don't even know if it's possible to check if it's been banned or not. They didn't have any banners, just product links (which are completely hidden, mind you).

    If I read the Operating Agreement right, then yes it's against their policy. I don't think Amazon would want to associate themselves with such thieves.
     
    Glottis, Feb 6, 2009 IP