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Someone Stole Our Awesome Website - What else shall we do?

feedsapi.com

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IANAL, but sending a DMCA notice to India? Really! I don't remember India being under US jurisdiction. Waste of money.

Actually, to Australia, where dndwebtech seems to be hosted presently, but that would be similarly outside US jurisdiction. Still, while it probably won't help, I don't see how sending a DMCA notice could hurt -- worst that might happen is that someone will laugh at you over the Internet. I've had worse.

Actually, worse might be that the pirate would send a DMCA takedown to your hosting provider. I've seen reports of this happening, from Indian firms no less.

"Actually, worse might be that the pirate would send a DMCA takedown to your hosting provider." Now, that would be funny , lol . I shall probably send their hosting provider a short note about this.

Just FYI: sending their hosting provider a note (other than a takedown / copyright violation notice) won't do much to prevent you from receiving a notice. You might want to put your hosting provider on notice that your content has been misappropriated, and to disregard DMCA notices from anyone claiming the reverse.

Actually, they'd be sending the DMCA to Google to have it removed from Search, not attempting to remove it from the internet

America ≠ World. The DMCA does not apply outside of America.

Until the TPP's signed in which case..

This happens all the time, get used to it. Especially when your company/product starts to mean something. Take it from the bright side of life, and enjoy! They can copy the features of your side, but they can't copy the value and the stories your company can say. What you can do going forward, put a copyright of everything you create on the web site and strive to provide stories and value, rather than just a web site.

Well, the website looks crappy anyway - the copycats should have invested 10$ and buy a template from somewhere.

Looks like someone set up a new IT workshop and is stealing sites to fill up their portfolio. The url says demo1, so they are trying to show your site as a demo, as if it was designed by them.

It's a demo url... Perhaps one of their customers (dndwebtech's customers I mean) asked them to build a website that "looks like feedsapi.org".

ie: perhaps they never planed to use it as is -- a developer could have downloaded the website just to look at how it's structured, and it's an unfortunate accident that it ended up on the open web...

Dude, maybe it's just that you use the same template? How did you do your website?

The testimonials at the bottom mention FeedsAPI. It's a copy.

It IS a copy , same text, same content , same images, even the chat box is there... well, it's stealing plain and simple.

PS: Just to clarify, the copied version of our website is hosted at: https://www.feedsapi.org [Article already updated]

OP here: Just to clarify, the copied version of our website is hosted at: https://www.feedsapi.org [Article already updated] .

DNDWebTech, they applied to my one Freelancer.com post several months ago. I didn't give them the job, it was obvious they were ripping off other people's work.

I clicked the link to 'Create your account', and the link 404'd.

I'm not sure they stole yet. They might be in the process of stealing it.

Distinction that doesn't make a difference?

The links to the copy should be marked with nofollow otherwise you'll be promoting their search engine ranking.

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