idiotgirl - 4:16 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

You can 1.) feel flattered at your popularity, 2.) you can spend endless hours of your life you'll never get back tracking stolen content, or 3.) in Yahoo's case you might memorize Yahoo's copyright policy [docs.yahoo.com] and start getting up close and personal with your so-called 'nimrod' fan base. I would assume MSN has similar guidelines.

I wrote a program that automatically generates DMCA notices based on form input, sends out cc's and bcc's, and saves them to a database. It helped speed up the process so I wasted fewer hours of my life than I normally would.

When all else fails, I resort to an attorney, four letter words, and (sometimes) brute force intimidation.