Archive for January, 2010

While checking traffic stats today and following one referral search, we learned a website hosted on DreamHost servers had scraped 39 pages of content from the blog section of one of our websites. The response time was excellent from DreamHost in reply to the Copyright Claim and DMCA Takedown Request.

Graphics, photographs, and video were hotlinked to files on our hosting account, so the offending party added insult to injury by draining bandwidth as well as copying the xhtml code and blog text verbatim.

DreamHost autoreplied to the request in 3 minutes, and then a person emailed a reply within 2 hours to report the infringed content had been removed from their servers.

A big thank you to DreamHost for their prompt action, and to attorney Carolyn E. Wright who posted her tutorial and advice on Blackstar Rising entitled How to Send a DMCA Takedown Notice.

Fight back if you encounter copyright violations of your intellectual property, yet make sure to fully document facts as outlined in the post linked above. Keep in mind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA, is a United States law, so readers outside the USA may need a different approach to ensure compliance.