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Article #74Help! My entire website has been *stolen*!
From: [~\ mike /~]
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:04
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:04
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I've had people rip off bits of my work before, but never had an *entire website* lifted and passed off as someone else's. Those thieving bastards at Narconon (drug abuse 'charity' owned by the Scientologists) have ripped off the last version of my website in its entirety: the navigation, the graphics, the code, the style sheets, the layout - everything - changing just the text and photos. I've kept a copy of my old site here: http://www.urban75.com/rip_off.html, although some of the stuff they've stolen is still on the current website (below) And here's some of the sites that have stolen the work: http://www.ecstasyaddiction.com, http://www.heroinaddiction.com http://www.marijuanaaddiction.com My biggest concern is that people are going to associate urban75 with the Scientologists. I guess that's why they used the site as it has a very popular drug section which, I suppose, has a certain amount of credibility. I've already mailed newlife001@EARTHLINK.NET, hostmaster@EARTHLINK.NET and info@stopaddiction.com informing them of their copyright violation, but if anyone has any further info I'd appreciate it. I've also been given the number of a London branch of Narconon, but all I'm getting is an irritatingly chirpy answerphone. Finally, if they refuse to take down their site, does anyone know any good copyright lawyers? -- Mike urban75: UK ezine - http://www.urban75.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f76f2,71da7a1f41260aad,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf76f2,public X-Google-Thread: f5cde,71da7a1f41260aad,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5cde,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-21 08:09:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!newshub1.nl.home.com!news.nl.home.com!bullseye.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!urban75.demon.co.uk!mike From: "[~\\ mike /~]" <mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.net.web.authoring,demon.homepages.authoring Subject: Help! My entire website has been *stolen*! Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:04:46 +0000 Organization: spam-ye-not! Message-ID: <EHT+B4Aeiwa6EwAr@urban75.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: urban75.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: urban75.demon.co.uk:158.152.108.199 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 980093340 nnrp-07:12890 NO-IDENT urban75.demon.co.uk:158.152.108.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <R2ackqOldM9g7QLVjIIRwhoD$$> Lines: 33