Just realized someone shared my WSO

Is the file shared on a file hosting site? If so, you can complain to them and request them to delete the file.

Good luck,

Send out DMCA takedown notices to the site and where the files are posted.

Also, and a better way to handle this type of thing is to make sure ALL products you sell that could possibly be shared, contain upsells or additional products they can get free if they join your mailing list.

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Rob Whisonant

Its the way of the world these days man... If you never go to those forums then you wont even know that anyone is sharing them. I am sure I am ripped out of 6 figures a year... But I make 7 figures a year because I dont worry about it... Its a bummer, but its not the most effective use of your time.

Welcome to the club. You will find a lot of the popular WSO's have reached a similar fate. It's not nice but unfortunately it is the world we live in these days.

The funny thing is a lot of the people who are probably complaining about their product being leaked on a black-hat forum are the same people who don't think twice about downloading songs and movies for free.

Now everyone knows how the artists of the world feel when their work is shared and distributed freely over the Internet day after day.

Regardless, what should you do about it?

1) Don't make people aware of the fact by starting threads like this. I know you are concerned but now there are even more people who know your product has been leaked on another forum.

2) If it has already been done then go and change the title of your WSO so if anyone does search those types of forums for it they are not going to find it as it is listed under the original name.

Then if it happens again you change the name of your WSO again. I recommend you do this anyway as after a while people will become blind to your WSO title if they have seen it over and over. It's always good to change things up every now and then.

3) The people looking for your product on a forum like that were probably never going to buy your product anyway. So just try and make your product as good as possible and hope that you at least get a little word of mouth out of it.

I am one of the older members of BHW and the thing that you need to do is, join the forum and send PM to the admin or wzgizmo politely to remove your product there. Do it silently.... hard to accept but that is the best option. This is also the reason why I became a member of that forum honestly - because of my product being shared... I was able to take it down from mediafire but it took 2 days and reuploading it by other members took only minutes. If you can't beat them, join them....

Thats not right. I have seen some sites selling eBooks at $3-4 while they are still being advertised and sold thru Clickbank for $37 - $97.

Just a little piece of advice. I wouldn't post in a public forum that your WSO is on a thief forum for free. Ya never know who is reading here.

George Wright

Just report to the file hosting site. They will delete it soon. You should change the WSO title. Because now people know that your WSO has been shared in a forum. Make sure that threat starting time of that public shared thread and identify the person who distributed your WSO.
Don't woory mate, this is the world that we are living.

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Rukshan

That sucks... I wonder how many people are going over there trying to get it now?

I have had the same problems, but chances are, a majority of these people never even would have come across your ebook.

From Tim Brendel:

(This happened to me also but with a well known torrent website. Here is exactly what I did, though you may find this is unorthodox, and not for the faint of heart.

I had a digital product in the IM niche that was purchased by a pirate and uploaded to a torrent site. I found out about it through a friend and signed up for an account on this torrent site.

At first, I was pissed but then I remembered something that I learned from another IM friend a while back..... If you cut off the pirates at the knees, then you are cutting off a potential method of marketing your products. After all, the point of marketing is to get your product in front of as many eyeballs as possible right?

Think about it. If your product is good, then the comments that you read on this site can be used to your advantage. Here is what I did.

I wrote each person that left a good comment and thanked them myself. They all got a giggle out of a digital product owner on the torrent site commenting on their own product. I asked for their permission to use their comments as testimonials on my sales page. To my surprise, most said yes and I had 8 new comments to use as social proof on my site.

Also, they may like your product enough to share it or become your affiliate, or hell, they may even like it so much that they buy something else from you in the future.

I'm just saying, you don't have to go the "legal" way if you don't want.)



I think this is such a great idea that could get you more followers or buyers of your products, along with the other suggestions of including links back to your other products or lists.

What a great, non-confrontational and business-like approach, Kudos!

I'm definitely going to remember this one. Thanks Tim