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Stop! Website Thief!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-the-striped-jumpsuits dept.

Rick Zeman writes "We've all heard of people grabbing an image from this web site, ideas from that web site, or some content from yet another web site. But what do you do when someone takes your entire web site and hosts it in a foreign country? Silicon.com has an article that tells the tale of two such web sites."

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  1. Re:You do nothing. by krog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly. This happens all the time -- just take hick.org as an example.

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  2. So what? by aquabat · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Ok, so somebody copied his web site and is making money as a result. I don't get why the original author would care, if it doesn't affect his bottom line. It's like a compliment, right?

    Maybe being called constanly by people who think you are the author of the site (and you are, really) would be annoying and a waste of your valuable time, but you could turn those calls into an opportunity to convert a customer.

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