How do I force another website to get rid of my stolen content?

July 2, 2005 9:48 AM

How do I force another website to get rid of my stolen content?

The admin of thedamnblog.com informed me that bulletinboardforum.com took my page and put it on theirs with no permission and credit what so ever. I can't find an email address for the site; the only contacts are to submit a link and for marketing, and doing a whois shows the site registered through a proxy, so there's no email address there.

How should I go along with this? Should I threaten legal action? Should I use the "send a link" link?

posted by daninnj to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Some good tips here
posted by webmeta at 10:13 AM on July 2, 2005

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.

They appear to be hosted by ThePlanet (running a reverse lookup on the IP address of www.bulletinboardforum.com comes back with ThePlanet's nameservers), who have contact information for allegations of copyright infringement here. Notify them that this site is hosting your original material (down the road you may need to be able to demonstrate your authorship) and thanks to the DMCA ThePlanet will likely take it down for you in short order.
posted by ubernostrum at 2:24 PM on July 2, 2005

Take screenshots NOW and do so regularly until the problem is resolved.

And check out this site. There's a lot of help available there.

Then do what ubernostrum said.
posted by realcountrymusic at 5:14 PM on July 2, 2005

Do a port scan and find some hackers.
posted by inksyndicate at 10:45 PM on July 2, 2005