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Please advise: Someone is blatantly copying my startup, on the .org of my domain

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Re: Please advise: Someone is blatantly copying my startup, on the .org of my domain

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Have your lawyer write a good, detailed DMCA complaint to Google and, possibly, cloner's hosting provider -- and make it quick, before they change the copy. If they modify the page later, use archive.org (hopefully it will pick up the current page) or google cache as a proof.

We once DMCAed a Romanian cloner who blatantly copied our top-selling shareware app and refused to take the clone down when I emailed him. His reply was along the lines of "suing is too expensive, you won't sue me".

We sent the DMCA complaint, and a result, he got kicked out of Google and all payment processing services (ShareIt, Regnow etc.) He later emailed me with peace offerings, but I just hit Del.

Re: Please advise: Someone is blatantly copying my startup, on the .org of my domain

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

isn't it like $325 to file a trademark?

Yeah, I started filing it this morning before writing this post. Trying to cover all of my bases. :)

trademark filing will only cover you in the US, you need to look at more options
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