Blatant copyright theft
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Published on 2011-07-15T16:42:03Z
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Found a user on the forum trying to solicit business for his website, a good user reported it and I checked the website out.
Firstly and most dangerously it's attempting to sell our original software, which is open source. Our open source software is around 15mb big and he's serving a 50mb download and trying to sell it for $20.
He's also stolen our CSS/images/site design in general which is all custom built.
I attempted to open reasonable discussion with him, and he responded promptly saying he would remove offending materials if he could just have 3 days to sort it out which I accepted. I'm not sure what his plan was because everything on that site is offending material.
Anyway he messaged back saying the site was offline, and it was, but it went back online shortly afterwards.
It's pretty sickening that someone is selling open source work as their own, (the site about us page references him as the sole developer etc etc, it's unbelievable to read it).
I want to shut it down, what are my options? I'm going to contact his domain registrar, web host, and Paypal (that's how he's selling the program).
Any other ideas?
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