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

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

daninnj — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:48:14 -0800

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?

By: webmeta

webmeta — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:13:07 -0800

Some good tips here

By: ubernostrum

ubernostrum — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:24:38 -0800

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.

By: realcountrymusic

realcountrymusic — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:14:25 -0800

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.

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:45:51 -0800

Do a port scan and find some hackers.