2. Write the Hosting Service Provider of the Blogger Who Steals Your Content
Once you've sent an email to the thief and he doesn't respond on time, you can send another email stating that you're ready to issue a DMCA notice. And you can simply get all details about the blogger through whois.net.
In order to ensure that you have your stolen content dropped down, one of the most excellent strategies to implement is contacting the blogger's hosting service provider.
When you decide to contact the hosting service providers of the blogger who stole your blog content, you'll be given the directive on how you can fill a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice right away. One thing you must do before filing such a notice is that you must be 100% sure that the blogger truly stole your blog content and you want it taken down.
Actions are quickly taken by most web hosts once a DMCA notice has been issued by a blogger whose content was stolen and this notice may also be passed across either to the DMCA or to the accused content thief himself.
However, if the blogger's blog is found on anyone of the giant blogging platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, and others, then follow the terms of agreement on how you can file or issue a DMCA notice legally so the hosting service provider can make proper investigation. You must also present:
- A URL that links to the original content that was stolen from your blog
- Further info about the exact time you published that content on your blog.
Because web hosts understand that they are even at a greater risk if it's found out that they're hosting a blog that has violated the copyright laws, they'll quickly take proper actions against such a content thief to ensure the stolen content is taken down.
3. Write the Blog Owner that Duplicates Your Blog Content Directly
You can also get your stolen content taken down simply by contacting the blog content thief who has copied some of the posts on your blog. Strategically, you can write the blogger making him realize that he's infringed your site's copyrights and this is implicating on his own part.
If the content thief is being reasonable and he's ready to take down the content, then you may not press further on any other legal action covering your ownership of the stolen blog content. However, if the blog content thief wants to prove stubborn, you may take legal actions.
Once I've sounded notes of warning to anyone to take down my content, I do ask such a content thief to comply within a stipulated time or I would not hesitate to file a takedown notice covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Many of us learned yesterday that a DMCA takedown notice can be issued for no infringement at all, as one high-earning, IMer and WA member is going through this right now.
If it is THIS easy to abuse the DMCA takedown notices then this option may end up disappearing, as being used to destroy someone's business was never the intention of a DMCA tackdown notice.
Personally, I have installed plugins in hope of slowing down my sites being scrapped, however, I have to be honest in that I'm too busy to continually check for this happening.
Wasn't all that long ago that content that had been shared on my hobby websites since the '90s was literally copied and pasted in the EXACT format I created it in and shared in a Wiki site that Google ended up ranking well above my hobby site for this information.
Needless to say, since then I no longer have a lot of faith in Google punishing those who copy content.
Having said all this... it is only my take on this issue.
Would not Google know who put the content out there
first just saying :)