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My website has just been the victim of a copycat site, which was showing adsense ads.
After contacting adsense they stopped showing ads and I received a counter-notice from the copyright infringer which stated they had taken down the infringing content (hundreds of pages).
The infringer still has lots of copied work on his sites (from other sites not mine) and is making money from adsense.
My question is;
Can I just put up lots of copied sites with adsense ads and when someone complains take down the complained about material but still continue to make money as long as I can get away with it?
It's Just a thought but it seems like it could be lucrative for as long as adsense puts up with this behaviour.
It's Just a thought but it seems like it could be lucrative for as long as adsense puts up with this behaviour.
Is "for as long as..." good enough?
Sounds like shortsighted thinking to me. (Never mind the risk of getting sued and/or losing one's rankings in the search engines as the result of a DMCA complaint.)
Once google re-enables adsense I will be emailing some of these other sites and encouraging them to complain. Hopefully adsense will get sick of them and terminate the person permanently.
Scroll to the bottom of this link and read under 'Account Termination'.
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My question is: Can I just put up lots of copied sites with adsense ads and when someone complains take down the complained about material but still continue to make money as long as I can get away with it?
I doubt your question was a serious one, but I guess it depends on your conscience and your bank balance :) The site you speak of probably gets away with it because it copies from people who maybe cannot afford to sue. Sooner or later, they'll get their comeuppance. Can you afford to get yours?!
Copyright infringement is not only unethical, it's also illegal.
Again the same person did the same thing, this time with different hosting company (Very popular one) they are not puting the site down for our dmca though we have more than enough proof for the site to be put down, archive.org, google cache and more. But this time he has taken off the adsense (or removed by google but we did not receive any mail from google adsense for our dmca) instead he is running chitika ads, we also contacted chitika they replied they will look in to this matter.
We are not new to this legal issues though we face this with our sites regularly, it is surprising that the top hosting company is not supporting us in this regard. Just replied saying we will look in to this and disappeared.
I am commited to build a community to act upon infringement. Any thoughts?
I think its a good idea, I am sure many honest webmasters would like to join in.
