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Ask HN: Is this a DMCA takedown?

2 points by jreposa ↗ HN
IANAL, but I just found a site that has identical content as a recent blog post of mine.

Exhibit A: (the thief) http://www.vevz.com/the-year-that-was-2008-a-rundown-of-the-major-financial-events-that-rocked-the-nation

Exhibit B: (my site) http://www.mybanktracker.com/articles/2009/01/08/the-year-that-was-2008-a-rundown-of-the-major-financial-events-that-rocked-the-nation/

He even forgot to remove my links at the bottom of his page.

I already sent an email to abuse@bluehost.com (his DNS points there), but should I be throwing around the DMCA word yet? How do you file a DMCA complaint?

Completely new territory for me...

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answerly
I have dealt with these type of folks before and DMCA threats mean very little to them. What hurts them is getting de-listed/penalized in search engines, particularly Google. I would suggest reporting to Google's web spam team. You can access the Google web spam form through Google webmaster tools.
wmf
I have dealt with these type of folks before and DMCA threats mean very little to them.

You don't send the takedown to the spammer; you send to their hosting company, who has to take action by law.

jreposa
Good lead. I found this: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

@calbers it agrees with you, but also states that I should file a DMCA takedown.

"If you believe the content should be removed from Google's index because of a copyright infringement, you should file a DMCA takedown request. Unlike requests to remove spam or personal information, DMCA requests must come from the content owner."

Thanks!

calbers
IANAL, this is simply a case of copy write infringement, not a violation of the DMCA - which prevents the dissemination of information with circumvents an owner's copyright. They stole your content, plain and simple.
jreposa
It seems that it's a scraper site with all content stolen from around the web. If you go to the vevz site, there are a ton of blog posts copied verbatim (links intact on most of them).

Also, I just realized... Who uses a four letter domain name for this type of stuff?