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MTDesigns
08-29-2001, 07:26 PM
It's unbelievable how stupid some people can be. During one of my browsings through my stats I located a new referrer...to one of Yahoo's Group pages. I joined the group, then saw why they were in my stats. They had copied a checklist of mine, changed the headings and title, but left the following:

Colors/format, link to a few images on my server (1 was a check mark, the others were affiliate banners...still with my affiliate code linked from their uploaded file!), and they never removed the meta tag information from the code, which was included my website's name and other info.

Faxed my DMCA-compliant letter to Yahoo after emailing them yesterday. Sometimes I contact the website owners first, and sometimes they aren't that lucky ;).

Best always,

Deb
08-29-2001, 08:39 PM
Girl! If you get any more practice in this area I'm going to have to hire you to personally handle these problems for FutureQuest as well!

Deb
- Wonder how our attorney would feel about that?

MTDesigns
08-29-2001, 10:22 PM
LOL! Now all I need is lawyer status ;).

Gee..I wonder how long it'll take Yahoo to respond?

Best always,

Joi~
Help, I've been forced to comply with the DMCA!

Jason
08-30-2001, 02:33 PM
Originally posted by MTDesigns:
Gee..I wonder how long it'll take Yahoo to respond?


For your sake, I hope no one from Yahoo was at the DMCA seminar at the Web Hosting Expo in Washington, D.C. last week! If they were, then you're probably not going to get much help there. :waa:

As far as how long to respond - I'd guess 10 to 14 days.

Jason

MTDesigns
08-30-2001, 06:28 PM
I hope no one from Yahoo was at the DMCA seminar at the Web Hosting Expo in Washington, D.C. last week

When I had an issue with Verio, it took at least 2 weeks (but it was an adult website was infringing on my stopsexoffenders.com site). I wouldn't want to wait much longer than that.


Thanx,

Joi~

MTDesigns
09-01-2001, 02:14 PM
I received a notice from Yahoo saying that action has been taken against this group - I noticed that the infringing files have been removed. I wrote back asking whether the group owner was notified about this situation -- they need to know what they have done wrong to avoid future infringements.

I think this is a record -- took 2 days! I certainly thought it would take at least one week ;).

Best always,

Joi~