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Get a lawyer to file a DMCA complaint to their host, payment provider, and, most importantly, Google. We used this approach to nuke a Romanian cloner who copied
by VladimirGolovin 7y ago
Get a lawyer to file a DMCA complaint to their host, payment provider, and, most importantly, Google. We used this approach to nuke a Romanian cloner who copied our app.
- metters 7y agowhat was the outcome?
- VladimirGolovin 7y agoThe dude was kicked out of of Google and his e-commerce provider.
- tempestn 7y agoI'm not sure DMCA would even apply; it's debatable whether our logo alone would be copyright protected. Aside from that, the issues are trademark and fraud, not copyright. (They haven't copied our content or the design of our site, just our name.) Google might be able to help by adding the site to their phishing blacklist, but having them de-listed from the Google index wouldn't make any real difference. They don't rank anywhere visible now. What they do is list vehicles on other platforms like craigslist, and then direct people to their pages when they're contacted. That way they're not asking people to send money to some random stranger on craigslist, they're having them make a transaction through "Auto Tempest", a known car listings site.
- HNLurker2 7y agoCan you elaborate on this Romanian(I'm also Romanian haha)