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One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
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Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#22I would've just sent the DMCA notice. It's not a "whole process", it's a couple lines of text you copy/paste, put in the URL of your site and the copy, change the date, and email to the host. It'll take you a few seconds to modify and send out. Most web hosts have a specific mailbox for DMCA notices on their contact page or in their AUP.
Subject: DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement
The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on: [URL(s)]
The URLs where our copyrighted material is located include: [URL(s)]
You can reach me at [email] for further information or clarification. My phone number is [phone] and my mailing address is [physical address].
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
[your name]
[today's date]
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
IS IT the same principle? Usually pirated software distributors don't claim original authorship. I'm not saying that the "merely copied" argument is correct, I'm just saying that I think the situations are different.
The main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that there is still an original copy. Just like with the OP's site.
"The main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that there is still an original copy."
No, the main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that piracy is not stealing. Stealing is the substraction of property, which piracy isn't.
This isn't stealing either, this is plagiarism.
If we don't name things with their correct names, we create false associations, and that makes arguing about those things needlesly complicated. It's hard enough getting a consensus on anything related to IP as it is, so we should avoid ambiguous syntax wherever possible.
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#24I would've just sent the DMCA notice. It's not a "whole process", it's a couple lines of text you copy/paste, put in the URL of your site and the copy, change the date, and email to the host. It'll take you a few seconds to modify and send out. Most web hosts have a specific mailbox for DMCA notices on their contact page or in their AUP. Subject: DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement The copyrighted work at issue is…
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours
I have!
The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was to grab the nearest big stick, in this case SFWA's Griefcom process, but something like that's not really an option for most self-published authors.)
(In contrast, Apple -- same situation, only in the iBook store -- were the very model of efficiency and helpfulness.)
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#25I would've just sent the DMCA notice. It's not a "whole process", it's a couple lines of text you copy/paste, put in the URL of your site and the copy, change the date, and email to the host. It'll take you a few seconds to modify and send out. Most web hosts have a specific mailbox for DMCA notices on their contact page or in their AUP. Subject: DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement The copyrighted work at issue is…
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours I have! The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was t…
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Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours I have! The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was t…
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Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#27Okay, I'll take the alternative view: this is embarrassing for the OP. What worries me is that the OP found the name Bart Burns on the WHOIS for the domain, and assumed (a) that's who registered the domain, and (b) that the information he found via a quick Google is actually Bart Burns. I can change the information on my domain to be whoever I want, particularly if I'm a scammer. Whatever I put in NameCheap's panel s…
EDIT: See my response to jedsmith below. I didn't look at the altered site when I posted the following:
Well, it doesn't look like the OP has actually done any vigilantism (at least not yet):
I simply altered the code of my site so that the next time his scraper tried to access its content, it wouldn’t get what it expected. Within an hour, the homepage and every page of his site looked like this (redacted to protect the guilty)
What he did can only target the guilty party, as all he did was change his own site's content.
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#28Okay, I'll take the alternative view: this is embarrassing for the OP. What worries me is that the OP found the name Bart Burns on the WHOIS for the domain, and assumed (a) that's who registered the domain, and (b) that the information he found via a quick Google is actually Bart Burns. I can change the information on my domain to be whoever I want, particularly if I'm a scammer. Whatever I put in NameCheap's panel s…
EDIT: See my response to jedsmith below. I didn't look at the altered site when I posted the following: Well, it doesn't look like the OP has actually done any vigilantism (at least not yet): I simply altered the code of my site so that the next time his scraper tried to access its content, it wouldn’t get what it expected. Within an hour, the homepage and every page of his site looked like this (redacted to protect…
Intentionally altering your site so that the automated scraper pastes personal identity all over the target site is an act of vigilantism, and feeds the wild West that the author laments. Hell, digging up identity and then using it against a person is vigilante in itself -- the content of the site modification is extremely passive aggressive. 4chan calls this "dropping dox".
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#29I would've just sent the DMCA notice. It's not a "whole process", it's a couple lines of text you copy/paste, put in the URL of your site and the copy, change the date, and email to the host. It'll take you a few seconds to modify and send out. Most web hosts have a specific mailbox for DMCA notices on their contact page or in their AUP. Subject: DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement The copyrighted work at issue is…
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours I have! The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was t…
> The culprit -- whose copyright agent doesn't respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com.
That's illegal. There are well-defined bullet points that make a valid DMCA complaint that must be acted upon, and I doubt Amazon would open themselves up to liability based on "big sticks". They'd lose safe harbor for not complying, which is extremely bad news for EC2 and any Internet hosting provider.
Re: One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours I have! The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was t…
> The culprit -- whose copyright agent doesn't respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. That's illegal. There are well-defined bullet points that make a valid DMCA complaint that must be acted upon, and I doubt Amazon would open themselves up to liability based on "big sticks". They'd lose safe harbor for not complying, which is extremely bad news for…
It's not illegal, you just can't claim the benefits of the limited liability section if you don't register a copyright agent and respond to DMCA notices.