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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
A lot of what you posted about is a great deal of what got me started.
Some member to one of my sites informed me that most of our exclusive content is being distributed and repackaged elsewhere. Needless to say it got me very pissed. Would love to drop names and all yet this of course has to stay very general. We have legal people that deal with this crap yet damage has been done.
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Yep...been there/done that as well.
A few years back we found out about two paysites that were usin' our stuff - even displayin' it directly on their mainpages. So rather than simply send them a cease 'n desist email, I had my cousin (a top-notch Toronto attorney) help me put together a professional email filled with a lot of intimidating jargon and legalese - demanding monetary compensation based on 'loss of livelihood'.
It worked - both times. We ended up settling with the clowns for some tidy money within a very short time. One of the two guys even phoned me at 3am from Great Britain in a panic after receiving the initial email (he'd forgotten the time difference, lol). We later negotiated the settlement over the phone. Amusingly, the guy paid us in sterling pounds...although we had only specified it in USD.