dial_d - 9:19 pm on Apr 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

I recently uncovered a number of people copying, verbatim one of my best articles. To exasperate the problem, one of them even used it a press release for his website.

I have contacted the person who now owns the site in question (it's not the same person who actually sent out the press release). But he lives in a 3rd world country and has a "I am beyond your reach" type attitude.

Basically, he refuses to remove the content because he says that I can not prove I own the copyright. The article has been on my site for more than 2 years before his was even created. I still have the original Word doc file which is time stamped. I also have copies of my site on my hardrive which are also time stamped well before the creation of his site.

Is that good enough to convince Google to ban his site? Do I even need to provide proof (if he doesn't try and fight it)? He might well try to fight it. He's being a real a-hole about the whole situation.

Please note: I do not inteed on suing this person. From what I understand about it. I don't need to if Google believes that I am in fact the copyright owner. Personally I don't care if has the article there as long as G doesn't index it.