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Proper way to file a DMCA complaint with Google ?

How to do this when my entire website has been copied

         

ron1123

5:00 pm on Aug 14, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello
Just recently we have found that our entire website and all our pages have been duplicated. Every page!
The hosting sight and owner are in China and the only way of Contacting the hosting company is in Chinese Language only.
I have emailed the owner of the domain, but this is a scam and I'm sure I won't get a reply back.
They have copied all the URL's with there domain name which is only one word off of our domain name.
All the pictures and text are still on our site, even the phone number and our e-mail.
The only thing that is different is the top of the pages have some new graphics and the business name has changed ( only one word added ) and there are a few extra links added to the bottom of the page that send people to a few chinese wedding gown stores.
My question is this: How do I go about filing DMCA complaints on all of the offending pages? Google's instructions are as follows:

"FOR WEB SEARCH, YOU MUST IDENTIFY EACH SEARCH RESULT THAT DIRECTLY LINKS TO A WEB PAGE THAT ALLEGEDLY CONTAINS INFRINGING MATERIAL. This requires you to provide (a) the search query that you used, and (b) the URL for each allegedly infringing search result."

Does this mean they want a search term and URL for EVERY infringing page or can I simply submit the home page of the infringing sites and tell them that every link they follow from that page will take then to another infringing page?

There are close to 25 pages currently on my website.

Thanks

alika

10:49 pm on Aug 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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They don't need the search term

But they want you to give the infringing URL and the URL of your site they copied. Something like:

Your URL:
Copied URL:

For ALL of your URLs that was copied

One site copied our entire site and Google asked us to give the one-by-one equivalent. It was a big big pain considering we had 6,500+ pages.

But if you want to file the DMCA you have to do it

SevenByThree

8:05 am on Sep 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



My experience was similar to alika's. I needed to provide every single URL and result link. Personally, I just coughed up $100 to have a coder do a regex script and report print out for me. For you, I'd say just manually list out the 25 links.

Healthguide

1:07 pm on Sep 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

I have had the exact same issue. Our entire site was copied, even the pictures of me on the homepage! All 650 pages. However, all in Russian. I hired a top lawyer to help sort it, but the host hasn't replied or answered!

I wanted know how the links to each search engine pages where we file this complaint to try and stop them listing in the search engine results pages. Surely, this is as good as getting them as not showing up in serps means no traffic!

Does anyone know the links to each search engine for complaining?

Sevenbythree, what was hring a coder about, and would this work for me do you think?

Thanks
Health