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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. Flattered or angry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wrote a biography of a famous historic figure, and I placed it in my web site, devoted to this figure. I put a copyright on the site. Since then, I've seen it all over the place, including online encyclopedias. Don't know whether to be flattered or angry.

  2. This stuff annoys the hell out of me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These people rip these sites, pass them off as their own - even put them on their CV, and get the jobs the true talent deserve. They need stringing up.

    For instance :-
    www.nevermindus.com vs
    www.digitalabstracts.com

    There is a great selection of these on Pirated Sites

  3. Re:/. the bastards! by stry_cat · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ad Revenues are based off click-through rates, not page impressions. As long as you don't click the ads, it's fine.
    Not always true any more. I have been telling my clients to charge per page impression. Newspapers, magazines, and other print publications base their ad rates on the number of copies distributed. Charging per page impression is much more consistant with this method. The per click method doesn't take into account TOMA (top of mind awarness) or even harder to measure advertising concepts.
  4. Re:You do nothing. by Greedo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You may be in luck if the company uses a domain with a TLD mandated by ICANN (COM, NET, ORG, BIZ, INFO, etc.).

    With the new WDRP (Whois Data Reminder Policy) from ICANN, domain registrars are obligated to make sure their customers provide valid whois data for their domains. If they don't the domain can be pulled.

    As for carorcar.com, the whois data shows an owner in China, but with a US country code and zipcode (I think), and a phone number (+01.3212353319) in Brevard County, Florida. Heck, I can even see it's listed with a R. Young in Orlando.

    If you can convince their registrar that this is bogus, he might get the domain shut down.

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