simonuk - 9:53 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

Excellent posts and I'll just add one thing and ask one thing to this...

I've had an entire site robbed. It was an exact copy of my site even down to the meta tags.

I normally contact the site owner first but this was so blatant (an entire 20 page web site) we went straight to his host. We linked to web archive that showed our site had been running since 1996 and demanded very swift action. His host took his site down 30 minutes after initial contact and the following day we got an email from the site owner pleading not to sue.

The hosts of these web sites will act very swift in most cases as they have to take it very seriously.

Now a question:

Would it hurt to carbon copy the initial email to the site owner and the host so they are both aware of the impending problem?
If you put a note at the top of the email like "This email has also been carbon copied to your host to make them aware that legal action will soon follow if this matter isn't resolved swiftly "

Simon.