Stolen Content

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by RRWH, Apr 6, 2007.

  1. #1
    I have just had to deal with someone ripping off some content from one of my Blogs.

    The scumbag ripped my whole blog post and shoved it on a page with Google ads, and several other stolen blog posts from other bloggers.

    Now, I did a bit of a search here and found quite a bit of info in this very forum and have taken the necessary action to get the copyright content removed from the site.

    The scumbag's site is www - dot - base 3 - dot - info Please don't link to the site:

    A quick summary of the action I have taken:

    Attempted to identify the site owner and failed.
    reported the copyright violation to their webhost.
    reported a policy violation to G - as the site has adsense ads on it
    Reported the site to yahoo as it is the only S/E that the site is in.

    I have also written a blog post about the process I took in the hope it will help others in a similar situation - Dealing with Stolen Content

    For anyone else who has had to deal with this problem is there anything else I can do at the moment other than wait for the responses and the site/page to be removed, and de-indexed.
     
    RRWH, Apr 6, 2007 IP
  2. Pixelrage

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    It sounds to me like you've done everything right so far. You might want to check out lawguru.com and ask a lawyer from your state, it's a good site and I've gotten some very decent feedback there (plus it's free).
     
    Pixelrage, Apr 6, 2007 IP