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Please Help... What do you do when...

by sweetcrabhoney18
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You find your limited addition PLR product on a website for FREE without your permission?

I've emailed -- I called them with their WHOis information and now I can just see my business going down the drain.

The item is limited to only 250 sales... now that it's on this Blackhat free download website .. it's going to get tons of downloads and thus not be as rare or have the market value any longer. What do I do now?

I'm thinking I could reduce the price and turn it into unlimited downloads to avoid drama... but then I'd have to sacrifice affiliates because the profit on my end would be pennies otherwise.


I'm really upset -- really sad and feeling like this stupid PLR crap isn't for me. At least when it comes to posting them on warrior forum... It sucks because I just remodeled my website and I'm working on 5 different PLR packages right now. I love writing but this shady stealing crap is just a piss off and an insult to hard work. -- Did I mention it's my Birthday week as well? Talk about depressing ...

Any advice would be great... please and thank you.
#plr #sales #stealing #writing
  • Profile picture of the author Don Grace
    and this has what to do with copywriting?
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    • Profile picture of the author sweetcrabhoney18
      Originally Posted by Don Grace View Post

      and this has what to do with copywriting?
      ....writing is writing -- all areas of writing are writing. You are going to get upset to someone if they ask a question about PLR because you assume it's not writing copy? What about the sales letter... or the text that is used to write the reviews of the products within the item? Writing ... copywriting... they all go hand in hand because they require a skill and a high amount of determination. If I remember correctly many webmasters use PLR to build their sales letters, ebooks and many other things. Doesn't that make it qualify until "COPY" ?????????

      Seriously -- I'm already having a really crappy weekend and you just have to throw dirt in my face.. why must you do that?
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  • Profile picture of the author wrcato2
    PLR isn't really Copy writing or really writing at all unless you rewrite your plr more than 60%and follow your license agreement. Copy writing is ad writing and PLR isn't advertising copy and your post really is in the wrong area of the forum. However, I will give you my best advice about stolen PLR. You could sue the person and force the culprit to take it down. Or you ban the person from buying any more of your products and PLR packs and or make it really hard for hackers to find and download your products. You can go to programing talk here on warrior forum, and ask them the same question in order to find the perfect solution as far as protecting your paid products "url" from hackers.

    I would take the high road here and stop selling the PLR pack. I would rewrite the pack differently at about 70% rewrite the copy on the site and offer those whom purchased the product from you a free update with an explanation as to what happened or just sell it in the stolen products place.
    It is easier and more profitable to "edit crap, than thin air" as Robert Plank stated in his ebook "five minute copy writing" and just move on than to fight this in litigation.
    Most marketers would just ignore the thieving and just sell the 250 copies like they didn't even know that it was stolen.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeremey
    Originally Posted by sweetcrabhoney18 View Post

    You find your limited addition PLR product on a website for FREE without your permission?
    What would I do?

    Nothing!

    You are still offering a PLR package that you worked to make perfect, and has value in the marketplace, right? Do you think every potential prospect of yours is crooked enough to scour black hat sites for hacked and bootlegged contact?

    Of course not. You are still offering a limited edition product - On the internet, there's nothing anyone can guarantee that digital content won't be stolen or distributed without your permission (or the permission of the people who buy your product). Think of it this way - If the next Avengers came out on Pirate Bay at the same time it was released in theaters, would the studio pull it from the cinemas because people could get a copy of it online? Of course not. I am selling a CD of my original music right now that has had more illegal downloads from torrent sites than it has actual sales. But I still sell it on my site.

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Corey Geer
    There's nothing you can do about some of the blackhat sites out there. If it were to appear on BlackHatWorld, all you have to do is contact the mods and tell them to put it on the Do Not Share List and notify them of any threads containing your products for download.

    Honestly, I wouldn't feel too threatened by those websites. I've seen quite a few of them and I'm guessing the majority of the people browsing there aren't Native English because it's hard to read most of the posts. They're all just looking for free hand outs on that forum, you have nothing to worry about if 200 random freebie seekers get a hold of your product.

    Those aren't the customers you are going to make money off of anyways.

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