Thughosting.com is a free host. Between others they host the pics for one Russian guy, who steals content from TGP/Free Sites. He puts markings on pictures like they belongs to russians-girls.com. I'm sure he steals them, because I cought him several times. Actually he said it himself (that he steals it from TGP).
Here is an example gallery:
http://www.thughosting.com/www/rusgi...112;Alena;16;0
and one of the pics linked:
http://www.thughosting.com/www/rusgi...12;Alena;16;14
The guy steals a lot of pics from different sites, but those are pics from one of the sets I did personally once. I did not license the pics to domain russians-girls. And I have a list of 57 more links with Thughosting.com where some of my pics are located that I consider used without a license.
I wrote to the support of Thughosting.com sending them a complete list of urls and politelly asking them to remove the content and close the account of this user. This is what I got back:
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We have received your communication regarding potentially infringing content. However, the notice neither met the statutory requirements of the DMCA, nor did it give us sufficient information regarding who you are and of what content was potentially infringing. Therefore, we cannot take action on your request at this time. Feel free to send us an additional notice that is more descriptive and in compliance with the DMCA. You may review the requirements for a DMCA Take Down
notice at:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...tle=17&sec=512
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
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Ain't this some shit? I must prove now that I have rights for this content???? May be I need also to bow down and spread my ass cheaks apart for easier for them to fuck me? I wrote them that actaully they MUST have a proofs they (or their user) legally own that content, not me. Where the model ID's and Releases and/or License issued by the producer/reseller? They seem to have ignored my reply. The galleries is still there.
Again, I'm just sure the guy have stolen that content, because he actually never denied this. And I have already shut several his domains/accounts with other hostings.
So I have a question for all of you here - who can I abuse that Thughosting.com to? I wrote to their upstream provider, but they did not even reply. Any lawyers here?
Indeed I could order a small DDOS attack to this domain (I know where to find some guys who do this for money), and I'm sure I could just keep them down for weeks, but this is too much honour for some little asshole and to much expences for such a miserable shit. And I really do not want "to draw a rusty knife out" before I tried all legal measures.
Any advise please?