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Theft! What should I do?

by Ron Douglas
14 replies
I just found a site selling master resale rights to one of my product for $1.50.

What would you do in this situation?
#theft
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan_Taylor
    I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds like copyright infringement. You could sue, or just scare the crap out of them so they stop.

    I'd start with a whois search to try to find a name and phone number.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    There has been enough of this stuff going on that perhaps marketers should get together and form a membership program to deal with this stuff. On staff could be a lawyer, researcher, and a hacker. I know big companies such as Microsoft et.al. have the software publishers association as well as their own in house legal staff to constantly battle these things.
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  • Profile picture of the author martinkeens
    I would inform them of the situation. If they refuse to pull the link, I would threaten them with a C&D order. If they still refuse to pull it, I'd do a cost/loss analysis to see if it would be worth it to go to court and actually have the C&D issued.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Taylor
      Get them sandboxed...pm me if you want Ron.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Which is the situation here?

    Is the complaint that they are selling Master Resale Rights without authorization?

    Or, is the complaint that they are selling them for only $1.50?

    If it is the former, then do as the others have suggested.

    If it is the latter, I'm not sure there is much you can do about it, unless you stipulated a minimum selling price in your license.
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  • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
    Send a DCMA request to his hosting company.

    That should get his attention pdq when his site gets shut down.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
      DMCA notifications are the easiest way. If you can get his host to shut down the site, he'll get the message fast.

      You can also try appealing to his payment processor if it's obvious who that is. Just remember to keep it simple and find a way to make it apply to them... go specifically at how what he's doing violates their terms of service in some way, don't try to send a DMCA notice or something like that since it has no application there.
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