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Help! My entire website has been *stolen*!

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From: [~\ mike /~]
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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From: "[~\\ mike /~]" <mike@nospam.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Help! My entire website has been *stolen*!
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