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Krome · 05-30-2002, 02:24 PM

The other day I found a site that had stolen over £2000 of content from me. It was a free site and had banners for two click through programs on it. To say I was livid was a fucking understatement..It then has "Show your appreciation for our hard work by clicking on our banners" - YOUR FUCKING HARD WORK? I decided I was not just going to get the site shut down I also wanted to get this sponsor accounts cancelled. I contacted one company and bang he was gone terminated...The other company however started to really fuck with me denying he was one of there affiliates and then finially admitting it they turned around and said "yes, it does... obviously they advertise us. that's it. " ...I do not know what the law is regarding this but it my opinion they are funding a fucking theif...The girl at the company www.teleword.de then gets another bloke to contact me, Joe Greenman.Now this bloke has got to be the most self righteous mother fucker the world has seen.

"While I know that everybody's trying to earn money these days, how in God's name can you justify selling pornography?
Gregor told you clearly once upon a time that he has "... *never* posted even one single pornographic picture on the Internet".
I can tell you that this is not a commercial decision but a moral one. "

well if you have morals then why cant you give some satififaction by terminating the wankers account. Plus if you live on such a moral high ground why are you buying traffic from porn sites? and even better than that why are you buying traffic from an illegal pornsite?

The fucker just would not listen to me..I would have let go if they had said at first "Can you prove that the cotent is yours? If so we wil terminate the fuckers account and send a few boys around his house to go to work on the cunt with a pair of pliers and a blow torch" . I then decide fuck you try this email:

"To Joe

I will get my barrister to call ASAP. The bottom line is this The affiliate had made money via the theft of £2000 worth of our
content. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...:H.R.2281.ENR: Please read the DMCA. Teleword denied the affiliate
was one of their then admitted yes they were. Teleword should have cancelled there account and helped us contact the
inidivdual instead there reply was "yes, it does... obviously they advertise us. that's it. " yes that is it he advertises you.
Teleword should have cancelled the account there and then and given us his details. Teleword directly finiancially
benefits from his act of theft. You say that you will win in court? I doubt it. It is a clear case - you did nothing but
continue to pay the copyright violater. All I wanted was for you to cancel their account. I really do not think you should be
running affiliate program if you do not understand the DMCA as it seems that it is going to get you into a great deal of
trouble.

David."

In my opinion I want to get them in court..It will cost me £150 - about $225...the minimum it will cost them is $500. Do you think I will win?

P.S.

The site has now been shut down by Geocites but I saved a copy of the HTML on my PC. I also have the affiliates ID code.

05-30-2002, 02:24 PM
Krome Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London - UK Posts: 2,851	Affiliate programs paying copyright violators The other day I found a site that had stolen over £2000 of content from me. It was a free site and had banners for two click through programs on it. To say I was livid was a fucking understatement..It then has "Show your appreciation for our hard work by clicking on our banners" - YOUR FUCKING HARD WORK? I decided I was not just going to get the site shut down I also wanted to get this sponsor accounts cancelled. I contacted one company and bang he was gone terminated...The other company however started to really fuck with me denying he was one of there affiliates and then finially admitting it they turned around and said "yes, it does... obviously they advertise us. that's it. " ...I do not know what the law is regarding this but it my opinion they are funding a fucking theif...The girl at the company www.teleword.de then gets another bloke to contact me, Joe Greenman.Now this bloke has got to be the most self righteous mother fucker the world has seen. "While I know that everybody's trying to earn money these days, how in God's name can you justify selling pornography? Gregor told you clearly once upon a time that he has "... never posted even one single pornographic picture on the Internet". I can tell you that this is not a commercial decision but a moral one. " well if you have morals then why cant you give some satififaction by terminating the wankers account. Plus if you live on such a moral high ground why are you buying traffic from porn sites? and even better than that why are you buying traffic from an illegal pornsite? The fucker just would not listen to me..I would have let go if they had said at first "Can you prove that the cotent is yours? If so we wil terminate the fuckers account and send a few boys around his house to go to work on the cunt with a pair of pliers and a blow torch" . I then decide fuck you try this email: "To Joe I will get my barrister to call ASAP. The bottom line is this The affiliate had made money via the theft of £2000 worth of our content. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...:H.R.2281.ENR: Please read the DMCA. Teleword denied the affiliate was one of their then admitted yes they were. Teleword should have cancelled there account and helped us contact the inidivdual instead there reply was "yes, it does... obviously they advertise us. that's it. " yes that is it he advertises you. Teleword should have cancelled the account there and then and given us his details. Teleword directly finiancially benefits from his act of theft. You say that you will win in court? I doubt it. It is a clear case - you did nothing but continue to pay the copyright violater. All I wanted was for you to cancel their account. I really do not think you should be running affiliate program if you do not understand the DMCA as it seems that it is going to get you into a great deal of trouble. David." In my opinion I want to get them in court..It will cost me £150 - about $225...the minimum it will cost them is $500. Do you think I will win? P.S. The site has now been shut down by Geocites but I saved a copy of the HTML on my PC. I also have the affiliates ID code.