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Recommendations for dealing with thieves?

         

ownerrim

5:27 am on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I was checking my referral log and found one I hadn't seen before. Went to it...and lo and behold, someone had lifted an entire page from my site but had been stupid enough to leave the links leading back to my site intact, thus enabling their users to mark a trail for me to follow. Basically from what I can tell, this "site" is a subdomain of a larger site that may be owned by someone else. Despite that fact, though, theft is theft and I suppose I can contact the domain registrar and hosting service regarding this. Any other suggestions?

robotsdobetter

5:30 am on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Contact the wenmaster first and if that don't work than go to the host. Unless you have already tried that?

photon

1:10 pm on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Take a look at this post from the forum library [webmasterworld.com]:

What To Do When You Have Content Copied [webmasterworld.com]

ownerrim

2:25 pm on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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robotsdobetter, photon, thanks for the tips. I've already looked up the host and registrar. The host is kind of odd because they have several numbers but you always get sent to a message line. I do have a couple of email addresses as well. Can't really report these clowns to google because they are not even indexed yet.
My take on it is that this is a brand new site made by some moron using a template, using a subdomain, who is too lazy to create his own content and too stupid to take out the links leading back to my site.