A guy ripped off my Site

[skits2]

Hey everyone

I was checking my statcounter info and seeing where I was getting referalls from, and clicked on a link that I hadn't seen before

I came up with this

xxxhttp://www.pokerandom.com/fishlist/poker-fish-list.htmlxxx

Apparently the guy ripped off 5 or 6 pages of my site and didn't even bother to change all of the links.

His main page is here

xxxhttp://www.pokerandom.com/xxx
Check to see if anything of yours was ripped off




Also what should I do about it?

My plan is to e-mail him and say that if he doesn't take all of my content down I will contact the sites that he is promoting and tell them to cut off contact with him.

Is there any other action I should take?



Edited: Broke the links

[Bryan]

He's taken more than that from your site. He's even got articles of yours up. Although in the articles he still leaves your link. I'd still be pissed if you didn't give him permission.

Anyone who wants to check to see who else is reproducing their articles or other content should go to http://www.copyscape.com and use their easy to use tool.

Then contact the site owners and tell them to remove it immediately or you'll take legal action. (This typically is sufficient).

Eveyone takes ideas or even sometimes a look from a site they like, but actually taking the articles that someone else wrote is just not right.

Bryan

[Bryan]

Ok. Just noticed you do offer some free articles, but he obviously has taken a little more than that.

Bryan

[bankrollboost.com]

It might be possible that this person saw that you offer free content and articles under affiliate tools and thought that meant all of the things listed on that link. Maybe you should have one of the PAW admins change that information to just things you would like to share.

start out with a professional email stating he took the wrong content and direct him to the right articles. Then tell him he needs to get the other pages off his site.

No response...take action

[skits2]

Ah - I hadn't seen that he had put up my shareware articles as well. Now it looks to me like he may have just gotten confused as to what was acceptable, what was not.

I sent him a polite e-mail asking him to take down the content that I did no intend to share within 7 days and explaining the action I would take if he did not do so.

I'll post on this thread if there are more developments

[Acapulco]

And this scumbag's reviews are copied from PokerListings... actually, he basically copied every page of his site from someone else.

I miss old fashioned justice.

[PPP]

Don't send thieving scum "polite emails". Give him 48 hours to remove the content or you will contact the affilaite programs the thief has deals with and have them close the accounts.

The whole site is stolen. Please edit your original post to break the links to his site (put an X in front of the http). We don't want to send any link love to a thief.

[adioking]

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