jdMorgan - 6:39 pm on Feb 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

It just takes resolve. Once you file a DMCA, other potential copiers may beware of you, so you help yourself by protecting yourself. You also help all other Webmasters by "spreading the word" that copying without permission is illegal. If you file a DMCA against your top problem copiers, you may not have to DMCA them all: Just send them an e-mail with a link to the public DMCA filing on chillingeffects, and ask them if they'd like to join the "dissappeared-from-google-copier-site club."

Folks who take action instead of waiting around for someone else to fix their problem prosper out of proportion to those who depend on others...

And taking action to protect yourself protects the Web as a whole, so it should not violate anyone's sense of "sharing" -- The whole idea of the hyperlink is to share without copying.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:39 pm (utc) on Feb. 28, 2007]