Site Stealing Old Content

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   Colin Quartermainposted 8 years ago

   Afternoon
   
   found a site, whilst not appearing to be stealing hubpages work, might be impacting on some writers' work
   
   pitlanemagazine dot com
   
   Seems to be posting everything that once appeared on the old Helium subdomain Lifepaths360
   
   From what I can gather it was once a site dealing with Formula1, so I am not sure whether the info I have found for host - VegasNap (now fiberhub) - is still valid, so if anyone can confirm that I would appreciate it

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   paradigm searchposted 8 years ago

   Bumped for Randy.

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   Colin Quartermainposted 8 years ago

   How long would you think is an appropriate length of time to wait for a response from a host in regards to a DMCA request?

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      Glenn Stokposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      My experience has been 24 hours.

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         Colin Quartermainposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks Glenn

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   Colin Quartermainposted 8 years ago

   Ok no response from the people I think are the host.
   
   When I do a form for Google and Bing, will they hide the whole site or just the specific pages?
   There are over 100 of my articles on the site, and I can't seem to find them all on waybackmachine

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      Glenn Stokposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      The host of pitlanemagazine dot com is Digital Ocean, Inc.
      Send your DMCA takedown request to abuse@digitalocean.com
      
      You need to include each URL in the notice.

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         Colin Quartermainposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Many thanks Glenn again -
         
         for future reference can you let me know how you found the host - I was using "whoishostingthis?" which is why I came up with VegasNAP

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            Glenn Stokposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            You are right. But there is more to it.
            
            I also start with www.whoishostingthis.com
            
            Then I look for the copyright agent at
            
            http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list
            
            and I send the DMCA takedown notice to that agent.
            
            But in this case VegasNAP is not in the government's list. I never ran into that situation before. Strange. So I took one of the DNS servernames instead.
            
            107.170.61.46 Digital Ocean, Inc abuse@digitalocean.com
            
            However, due to your request for details, I just did it again with the other server names and discovered that each one goes to a different hosting company. This is very unusual and actually can cause conflicting file paths for the site.
            
            Anyway, I found several different hosts now. Here's how:
            
            Find the IP address of the domain or DNS servername at
            http://www.dnsstuff.com
            
            Then find the host of the IP at
            
            https://www.arin.net
            
            Results for your infringing site:
            
            Top domain:
            
            104.129.176.226 VegasNAP, LLC
            Agent: rob@fiberhub.com
            
            Three DNS servernames:
            
            107.170.61.46 Digital Ocean, Inc
            Agent: abuse@digitalocean.com
            
            107.191.99.216  RamNode LLC 
            Agent: abuse@ramnode.com
            
            185.34.216.59 RIPE Network Coordination Centre 
            Agent: abuse@ripe.net
            
            My advice is to try sending a DMCA notice to one at a time. If no success then try the next.

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               Colin Quartermainposted 8 years agoin reply to this

               Many thanks again - comprehensive and I'll definitely be following this method in the future.

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