Can Anything Be Done About Website Hijacking? - misc.int-property

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Robert Heller

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More options Jun 18 2007, 10:55 pm

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From: Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:55:29 +0200

Local: Mon, Jun 18 2007 10:55 pm

Subject: Re: Can Anything Be Done About Website Hijacking?

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At Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:59:30 GMT fol...@spamlesss.com (Fred Olden) wrote:

> I just discovered that the entire website (mathpages.com), which
> contains a large amount of copyrighted material, has been entirely
> copied onto another domain: http://mathlectures.net/ The only
> thing different about the copied version is the logo on the top page.
> On the "About" page, someone named Ruslan Mirsky claims to have
> created the lectures.

> I have emailed them, requesting that they take down the infringing
> material, but have gotten no reply.

> Is there any remedy for something like this?

Nothing technical. One can use 'whois' to find out who owns the domain
(mathlectures.net), and then you can have your lawyer send the owner of
the domain and/or the ISP/web host that is hosting it a cease and
desist letter (possibly backed up by a court order). It is likely that
any legit ISP/web hosting company will take the site down, even if the
domain owner refuses to. You need to be sure to contact the ISP and/or
web hosting company as well as the domain owner. And you might have to
go 'up the chain' -- contact the next tier up ISP if the immediate ISP
fails to respond. And the contact probably needs to be more 'formal'
than a mere E-Mail from you -- you probably need to talk to a lawyer
and start the *formal* legal process going. Basicly the same sort of
recourse one would have if something along these lines happened in the
print media business.

Oh, let the search engines know as well (Google, Yahoo, etc.). If the
infringing domain gets 'blacklisted' by the search engines, then they could
find themselves 'dead in the water' for all practical purposes.

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