Into the fifth month and the 29th cease and desist

beyond the joke?

[diddlydazz]

Another day, another cease and desist.

I've been having content stolen for years but there seems to be a new trend in copyright theft, I just can't believe the audacity of these people.

The latest one is a highly respected educational department who literally copied and pasted three entire pages, created one page out of the three, and on top of all that hotlinked the images!

Am I alone in thinking a cease and desist just isn't justice?

Dazz

Sorry about the rant :o)

[bantam]

Actually, exposing this educational department as theives would be justice.
However, it might just be some new "webmaster" punk they hired that did that and also gets all the emails about knocking it off.

Did you send your C&Ds by post or by email?

[diddlydazz]

hi bantam

email, page has gone.

You're right, I find a lot of the infringements that we get are down to bad webmasters rather than bad companies/organisations, the bosses never seem to know anything about it or at least that is what they say :o)

I generally send them to as many emails as i can find on-site and via whois, the pages are normally removed within a few days, it just never seems to be enough just to have them take the infringement off only after I have took the time to send them a cease and desist.

Dazz

[Fiver]

embarrassment is a wonderfully effective tool, and oh so easy to execute when an image appears hotlinked.