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    They stole my site content and my script

    I own phpcart.net including the scripts. There is another website that is using much of my site content and is selling my script.

    http://www. cartman. nethut. no

    What do I do? I notified the company that handles their payments. Hopefully, they'll cancel the account.

    This totally sucks when a potential client pointed out the similarities.

    What else can I do?

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Notify their Hosting Company as well.

    Quote Originally Posted by jondolar
    I own phpcart.net including the scripts. There is another website that is using much of my site content and is selling my script.

    http://www. cartman. nethut. no

    What do I do? I notified the company that handles their payments. Hopefully, they'll cancel the account.

    This totally sucks when a potential client pointed out the similarities.

    What else can I do?

    Thanks,
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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Send one email to the site owner (To) and CC the Hosting company, the payment processor and the upstream(s). Might throw in the domain registrar as well just to add a little spice, but they generally wouldn't do anything.

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    gotta love the comment on the infringer's site:

    "!! WARNING !!
    Despite the fact that CartMan is copyrighted laterial, a number of people have taken the liberty to change the code and to distribute copies without the author's consent. Unneccessary to say, such action is illegal. Take care, and note that additional code have been added to some of these CartMan clones, code that could potentially endanger you and/or your customers. Please support the continued development of CartMan, and purchase your copy here. Thank you!"

    should also say "Support the continued ripping of PHPCart"

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    I thought Cartman was the chubby guy in South Park.

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    This article was posted on /. last night. I haven't read it, but it might be helpful to you:
    http://www.xequte.com/fraud/

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Great story, Sam.

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Yes, thanks for the post Sam. I've sent a few emails and now have to fax a signed document to his ecommerce provider. Hopefully, that will slow him down.

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Quote Originally Posted by FLe8
    This article was posted on /. last night. I haven't read it, but it might be helpful to you:
    http://www.xequte.com/fraud/

    Good luck.
    very nice one!

    thanks for sharing it!

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Send him an official letter (snail mail that makes him sign for it) saying that if he doesn't take down his website by such date that he will be sued. It will probably scare the guy enough to make him close up shop.

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Quote Originally Posted by jojoyohan
    Send him an official letter (snail mail that makes him sign for it) saying that if he doesn't take down his website by such date that he will be sued. It will probably scare the guy enough to make him close up shop.
    from the .no domain, it would indicate they are likely in Norway. International borders make this type of situation difficult at best. I doubt you can even send registered or certified mail to Norway from other countries.
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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Before sending out anything I would suggest getting all your ducks lined up. This would include amongst other things:

    - Screenshots of any offending material
    - Printouts of any offending material
    - Any contact info on the site (email, phone, fax, address)
    - Whois info of the domain
    - IP address of host and nameservers
    - Current payment processor (if paypal, the paypal email address)

    Good luck!

    I notified the company that handles their payments. Hopefully, they'll cancel the account.
    Did you just email them or file a DMCA complaint?

    http://www.digitalriver.com/corporate/dmca_notice.shtml

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    Re: They stole my site content and my script

    Thanks DigitalB. I emailed them and got a response back from them telling me to fill out their form and fax it in.

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