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Another site owner has plagiarized over 60 pages of text from our site. He's very aggressive and the number is growing daily.
We're all Canadian residents. Filing charges is not an option here. Recently he moved his web hosting to Germany. Our site is hosted in Canada.
Suing him is out of the question. It'll cost thousands and from all accounts this creep is a deadbeat and loser. We'll probably win but it will be a hollow victory at best because we'll never see a nickle. Both sites are non profit information sites only.
Cease and desist messages have elicited nothing but vulgar replies.
If there are other Canucks out there that have had similar problems, any other or additional suggestions would be most welcome.
Asking a thief please to be nice isn't usually terribly successful, in my experience. So have you attempted to contact his host directly?
Good luck!
Eliz.
I've even written complaint letters to their hosting company and one host actually kicked them off their servers, but for every one that we defeat there is always another to take his place.
Good luck.
Send a DMCA takedown notice to the major search engines. There is a reasonably good chance that with enough pages listed, they will just remove the entire offending site.
With a registered copyright you have some juice and can go after punitive as well as actual damages.
