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Subject: Re: Somebody has used HTTrack to copy and publish.
Author: Xavier Roche
Date: 08/26/2006 09:09
 
> What this guy clearly did was copied it once, loaded
> it, and then copied his site, so that the "Mirrored
> from....by HTTrack Website Copier" tag shows his own
> domain name. 

Unfortunately, this is something I already saw ; generally this is a trick to
attract users from search engines (catch popular site, copy it and try to get
its ranking, and then trying to gain money in advertising, for example, which
seems to be the case here)

I imagine that there will always be some people trying to get some cash by
doing this kind of things.
This is also true for httrack: the program is regularly being rebranded and
sold for few bucks on various sites (ebay, ..). Sheesh.

> I apologize
> for my premature post - I was in "reaction" mode.

No problem in your post - you know, sometimes some people even think that I
was the one who copied their sites (because the httrack name is tagged in the
html comments)

> I have contacted my brother-in-law, who is a
> lawyer, and will proceed with him if the person who
> copied my site does not respond to my emails asking
> him to remove the copied material promptly.

Generally some clear emails to the webmaster with the upstream provider in CC:
is suffucient.

If this is not sufficient, and if the hosting company is located in the USA,
you can send a DMCA-style letter to the upstream provider, following the
example given here:
<http://www.google.com/dmca.html>

(this is one of the very rare positive aspects of the infamous DMCA, by the
way)

> It looks like a fabulous tool.

Thanks :p

> There will always be
> people who abuse legitimate tools, unfortunately,

Yes - this was indeed a use which was not predicted when designing the
program..

 
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