Have you ever?

[Dzinerbear]

Have you ever caught another webmaster/site stealing from you? What did you do about it (in a general way, probably not a good idea to name names)? Did your course of action work? Is it worth pursuing or are you fighting a losing battle in terms of the sheer number of webmasters out there?

Cheers
Dzinerbear

[Dawgy]

oh yes. its part of being in the content biz im afraid.

usually a C&D does it

sometimes i have to threaten to name names

sometimes i just let it go

[jIgG]

I didn't tell him he still had my referral links and i was making money off his traffic :kitten:

[Dzinerbear]

Oh yeah jIig, I remember that story. That was a funny one. Serves him right.

Cheers
Michael

[Chilihost]

Michael, yes this happens all the time. I usually contact their host, the affiliate program they are using and their domain registrar and send them proof of the theft plus a legal-looking statement requesting they shut the webmaster down, and I cc it to the webmaster too. Plus I try to contact the place where I bought the content to tell them about the site that is using it illegally. It has worked in the past, I have managed to get peoples affiliate and hosting accounts shut

As for keeping your own affiliate code in the banners/links - you have to watch these guys - the reason they do this is to get a copied gallery accepted at TGPs or linklists then they redirect the traffic to an aggressive dialer or sometimes to some illegal sites! That in turn will give YOU a bad name. I always contact TGP or linklist owners too, with proof, and ask them to remove the gallery and blacklist the domain too!

cheers,
Luke

[Lee]

It definately sucks but the good thing is nowadays most affiliate programs are willing to help you by closing the accounts of these people :thumbsup:

Regards,

Lee

[gaystoryman]

oh someone has a new avatar...:wtf:

[Dzinerbear]

Lee,

Is that a cigarette in your hand?

Dzinerbear

[Lee]

LOL yeah i decided to show some flesh as it were GSM

Michael yep it is.. what did you THINK it was? LOL

Regards,

Lee

[Pistol]

Check them out and if they have money then you should consider taking legal action against them.

If more people took action against parasites in our industry they would think twice about further thieving.

[Dzinerbear]

Oh gawd, I've become one of those rabid non-smokers.

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