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I deal with companies ripping off GPL software. Not a single company -- or the webhosts they use -- have ever responded to a DMCA request.

• pingswept 16y ago
  Do you mean that the infringers have ignored the takedown request, or do you mean they have all silently complied?
  • DarkShikari 16y ago
    Ignored, completely.
• jbk 16y ago
  And I do have exactly the same experience. In almost every language, a research for "vlc" gives you either adwords for scams, adware, software+toolbars, software+homepage-changer or websites in the first page of Google results (using rings to get higher). Most of the time, they don't offer the source, modify something and do not offer the source, or abuse trademarks. Since Google refuses to remove them from index, or from adwords, the only way is to DMCA them. I have literally sent hundreds of DMCA. It almost never works.
  • pyre 16y ago
    > I have literally sent hundreds of DMCA. It almost never works. Are these US-based hosting providers?
    • jbk 16y ago
      Some, yes. But as we are not US-based, it is kind of hard to enforce... Not to mention that a SF-based company registered our trademark and sued Sourceforge afterwards...