Phone interview audio file published at other site

stealing audio content

[jim_knopf]

Hi all,

maybe somebody can give me a pointer on how to proceed.

We are running a motorsport website with content mainly related to racing event and therefore time
connected - i.e. Baja 1000 is now "hot" for us since the race is in a week.

Now yesterday I made a phone interview with a race team and published the audio file together with a post on our site (it's a WP CMS with own domain) just to find my interview a few hours later at a Blogger website that is claiming it's their interview (...with my voice)

In fact they did even hotlink to my content - I have screen shots of the code and normal display.

I did for now change the file name and look into blocking this by .htaccess.

I read the steps in the Google webmaster section on DMCA complaints and will do that but this is an time related issue in my opinion since the race is coming on and there are not much going on the rest of the year in that topics.

What can I do fast to get that solved - off the other website/blogger?

If it is of concern for advise: the server I publish of is located in Germany, we are in Mexico, the offender is in USA.

Thanks for any help.

Greetings from the Baja

[cabowabo]

Filling out the DMCA complaint is your first step. Second step is to send them a C&D letter, and third is to contact their host and tell the host you will be suing them for copyright infringement. That is usually all the host needs to hear and they take down the site.

Theft on the web is easy, therefore it happens, but it doesn't mean you have to like it. Good luck to you.

[jim_knopf]

CaboWabo: thanks, I fax the DMCA Sat. morning to Google Blogger (the scum-bag has no "real" hosting) and that took care
of the situation. Late at evening all was removed (plus some other stolen content on there).
So after all they "move"..... :)

[cabowabo]

That is what bites about scrapers ... you kill one of their sites and they pop up somewhere else.