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I found one of my books on a Russian site yesterday. I emailed their support for want of anyone else to contact, but doubt they'll take down the links because copyright is clearly not something they are at all bothered about. Many sites tell you what they will accept as a take-down notice, but if they don't, expect to be ignored. It's a pain.
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Have you tried to actually download a book? I think this is a scam, and they are not actually hosting the books. When I clicked on an ePub link, there was a popup saying:
I'm not going to go any further and click on a deal, but I'm skeptical you'd ever get the ePub. It's like those ads that say "FREE iPad!".
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It's disgusting and I don't even know why they think they can make money from ripping people off like that.
But here's what I do know....
Owner is From Poland
The Site was created and registered only FOUR days ago!
Domain was registered here - key-systems.net/
The owner has pointed the domain here: - aftermarket.pl - in order to auction it.
And here's the thing... the owner of the site had used proxies and has actually registered the domain from the US - typical!
The idea behind sites like this is that they will artificially increase the traffic, fill it with ripped content then sell the domain at a higher price.
The plus side is that most people will never find these sites and they will sit at the bottom of the cauldron of the web until Google simply de-lists them.
I have reported the URL to Google, it's the only thing we can do short of a ddos attack and crashing their server hohoho
But here's what I do know....
Owner is From Poland
The Site was created and registered only FOUR days ago!
Domain was registered here - key-systems.net/
The owner has pointed the domain here: - aftermarket.pl - in order to auction it.
And here's the thing... the owner of the site had used proxies and has actually registered the domain from the US - typical!
The idea behind sites like this is that they will artificially increase the traffic, fill it with ripped content then sell the domain at a higher price.
The plus side is that most people will never find these sites and they will sit at the bottom of the cauldron of the web until Google simply de-lists them.
I have reported the URL to Google, it's the only thing we can do short of a ddos attack and crashing their server hohoho
The site is "powered by Wordpress" ... my first step, scam or not, would be to reach out to Wordpress directly.
ETA: This is the closest link I could find to e-mailing Wordpress directly,
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
... maybe try it out.
ETA: This is the closest link I could find to e-mailing Wordpress directly,
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
... maybe try it out.
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It's a nice thought but Wordpress won't and can't do anything, it's a only a platform at the end of the day, simply a script that runs sites on millions of different hosting sites.Italiahaircolor said:
If you report it to Google then they can de-list it and stop it ever appearing in their searches
Or DDOS!!!!
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I found a site called dpgroup.org the other day. They've got a ton of books listed. It shows you how many people (user names included) that downloaded your book. I actually considered contacting the individual people and asking them to at least write a review for me if they are going to steal my work. I mean really, I'm only $.99! You can't break down and shell out a buck?
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I contacted a site called Firecash the other day about one of my books, just to see what they'd say (because I believe contacting these sites is nothing but a losing battle and I'd rather spend the time writing). Here, they actually admit and explain what they do:
Hello,
First of all the link which you are talking about (I am talking about this link http:LINK REMOVED ).
This file, hosted on our page is not a copyrighted material. It is only an empty PDF file what you can see on your own eyes, I provide you the link to the file without surveys, so please download and have a look.
The file (direct link): http:LINK REMOVED
Summing up, this file is an empty one or broken (it is not important). It is not possible to run it and it is not connected with you. Nobody cheats you, nobody breaks your copyright laws from FireCash company. We also have a Terms of Use and the file does not qualify as a one to be removed from our database because it does not break anyone copyright laws.
P.S. I am sure you will ask this question, why do people would want to make others think that the file which they would download is for example your file ? The answer is simple because each time someone download this empty and in fact useless file the uploader of this file gets some money. So they cheat the potential downloaders and earn on them. I really can not do anything to remove this file from database because it does not break law.
Hello,
First of all the link which you are talking about (I am talking about this link http:LINK REMOVED ).
This file, hosted on our page is not a copyrighted material. It is only an empty PDF file what you can see on your own eyes, I provide you the link to the file without surveys, so please download and have a look.
The file (direct link): http:LINK REMOVED
Summing up, this file is an empty one or broken (it is not important). It is not possible to run it and it is not connected with you. Nobody cheats you, nobody breaks your copyright laws from FireCash company. We also have a Terms of Use and the file does not qualify as a one to be removed from our database because it does not break anyone copyright laws.
P.S. I am sure you will ask this question, why do people would want to make others think that the file which they would download is for example your file ? The answer is simple because each time someone download this empty and in fact useless file the uploader of this file gets some money. So they cheat the potential downloaders and earn on them. I really can not do anything to remove this file from database because it does not break law.
Are you sure about that? Hosting sites take this stuff pretty seriously, I've heard of them pulling sites that don't comply with the host sites policies.BenEBrewer said:It's a nice thought but Wordpress won't and can't do anything, it's a only a platform at the end of the day, simply a script that runs sites on millions of different hosting sites.
If you report it to Google then they can de-list it and stop it ever appearing in their searches
Or DDOS!!!!
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Powered by Wordpress does NOT mean hosted by Wordpress.
Unless the domain maps to wordpress.org (doubtful), then all they did was download and install the Wordpress software. Wordpress can't remotely delete that software (at least I hope not). There's nothing they can do.
Unless the domain maps to wordpress.org (doubtful), then all they did was download and install the Wordpress software. Wordpress can't remotely delete that software (at least I hope not). There's nothing they can do.
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The DNS resolves to 63.141.249.57
That IP is hosted at
https://www.datashack.net/ and www.7x24web.net
From the listing, I believe 7x24 is the actual host, reselling the datashack servers.
That IP is hosted at
https://www.datashack.net/ and www.7x24web.net
From the listing, I believe 7x24 is the actual host, reselling the datashack servers.
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