What can you do when someone "steals" your website?

[PeterMan]

Someone saved my friends website and they are now hosting it on their own server/domain...

They grabbed all of the html/css/images and are passing it off as their own...

What legal recourse does he have? What do you folks think he should do about it?

Thanks!

 

[marcorandazza]

Send a DMCA notice.

 

[PeterMan]

Send a DMCA notice.

Thanks, this is now being looked into, in the meantime his host is going to switch his account to a new server and a new IP address...

 

[acronym007]

If you can prove it, open a ticket with the host of the fraudster. It may not stop them permanently but you can get those sites down when a good host is involved. They don't like legal messes.