Well…as promised, I have started my two prong attack on the ol’ website thief. We have contacted an IP lawyer and gotten him started with the relevant details. I’ve also started doing a little research of my own. More later on the outcome of things with the lawyer. What I can say upfront is that I never cease to be amazed with what one can turn up on a person with a little ingenuity and a lot of Google…especially when one’s quarry is a moron.
Since the infringing publication is a website, I started with a sensible and utterly unglamorous whois check. As might be expected of an individual or a web design company that steals web designs, the pest had registered his domain anonymously. This was, however, his only sensible move. 2 or 3 Google searches later and I’ve got the guy’s name, former websites, examples of contracts, and other websites. I’ve also got his myspace account…so I’ve got his picture, his hobbies, contact info for his friends and his “friends”, his social schedule, and his advertisements and bragging statements about the business he has built on a purloined website. In all, I’ve got quite a window on this self styled DJ and party guy and his his life. We’ll see what all I turn up…
The tally so far: 20 mins to gather relevant info to get the lawyer on the case. 8 minutes for an email. 4 minutes for whois, netcraft, and Google searches. 10 minutes reading up on the thief. 7 minutes laughing at a ridiculous photo of this joker swilling a bottle of Cristal like an unpopular, untalented Jay-Z (pre-dispute, of course). Anyway…back to it. More later.
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