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Write a few things. Register them with the copyright office. Then post them and wait for them to copy it. Now you can sue them for the max and strong-arm them t
by lubujackson 8y ago
Write a few things. Register them with the copyright office. Then post them and wait for them to copy it. Now you can sue them for the max and strong-arm them to take it all down or face obvious legal fees and punishments over 100k.
- setr 8y agoCan you sue for monetary damages if you yourself were not making any money off the content? If anything the other site could be called a mirror, and saving our op money on the hosting cost by diverting traffic.. (although maybe not from scraping?)
- pluma 8y agoI'm not sure about how this works in the US but in my country (Germany) "commercial use" does not actually require money to change hands or operating at a net profit. And last I checked copyright laws (if they apply to the content) apply to everything you create, whether you monetize it or not. That HN comment of yours? If it's sufficiently non-trivial, it's protected by copyright. Even though neither you nor HN directly make money of it. If someone scrapes HN and republishes that comment, you could go after them and demand they delete it.
- nutjob2 8y agoYou can sue for the loss of value of your website, even if it doesn't make an income it remains an asset with monetary value.
- icebraining 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages_for_copyright_infringement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages_for_copyrigh...