ARGH!

[saxikath]

The plagiarizer is back. Or still there. Or something.

I was looking around at other language of flowers sites today, and lo and behold, there her copy of my site was, on Google. Last time I searched, it still showed up, but there was a "you don't have permission" error when I clicked on it, so I figured she'd taken it off, but Google hadn't caught up. But it's there again today.

Without going into a big legal mess I can't pay for, there isn't really any way to get her to take it down for real, is there? *sigh*

Comments

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

Have you contacted the admins of the server hosting the page? (That would be spies.com)

[saxikath]

I haven't. For one thing, I have a suspicion that it may be her own domain; there are (or were) mirror sites under different domain names.

But maybe I should try that.

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, chaoticneutral.org is her domain. However, the page is hosted on spies.com's webspace...they are doing what is called "virtual hosting," which is where a single ISP can host lots of domains on only a few machines.

You can use http://dns411.com/ to look up the relevant domains if you want.

Now, spies.com doesn't have a TOS or AUP, or at least they don't have one online for the general public to see, so you can't take that route. But a nice request to have her remove your copyrighted material is a perfectly reasonable thing to make.