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    Angry Owner of casino.net.za Stealing Content

    I noticed a link from xxhttp://casino.net.za to one of my sites in GWT. When I investigated I noticed that a comparison table had been copied from my home page directly to their home page with all the original url's intact. They didn't even bother to change my aff code urls.There are other tables from other sites that have been copied as well.

    It appears that this thief is an obvious newbie but maybe that is their intention in trying to deceive us of their true intentions. Why would a newbie hide behind domain privacy. They are also using Cloudflare which I doubt a newbie would know how to organise.

    As I can't trace their hosting provider I have sent a contact message via the privacy company's contact form: https://domainisprivate.com/contact-form/https://domainisprivate.com/contact-form/

    I have also notified Cloudflare of this copyright infringement via their form: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form.

    Little ******.
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    Best looking site I have seen in years.. I must meet his designer, just file a dmca, its pretty quick and dont tell him, perhaps you will get some biz from the links , im sure his next move is $5 for 50,000 visitor traffic to see if he can convert


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    PM sent with some initial research which you may or may not already know. (I apologize for sending any redundant material as I pulled that and sent it before reading the rest of the your post and noticing you likely had most of it)

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    Quote Originally Posted by wonderpunter View Post
    Best looking site I have seen in years.. I must meet his designer, just file a dmca, its pretty quick and dont tell him, perhaps you will get some biz from the links , im sure his next move is $5 for 50,000 visitor traffic to see if he can convert
    Lol - site of my dreams.

    It's difficult to find the hosting company when the website is using Cloudflare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by universal4 View Post
    PM sent with some initial research which you may or may not already know. (I apologize for sending any redundant material as I pulled that and sent it before reading the rest of the your post and noticing you likely had most of it)

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    No problem Rick, thanks for the help anyway.

    Cloudflare have come back to me saying they have forwarded my request onto the hosting company concerned. I also sent Web Africa an email.
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    Some host companies use Cloudflare by default, he is definatly just starting out in the online world he is probably hoping the EMD will pull all the traffic.. a DMCA will make sure none of the pages ever rank again took me 2 weeks after filing complaint to get them removed.. by far the easiest route


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    you've gave them a free back link in your first post

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    Quote Originally Posted by thebookiesoffers View Post
    you've gave them a free back link in your first post
    I know, but one back link to that heap of **** won't make any difference.

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    I fixed the link

    Good catch

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    I finally got my copied comparison table removed from this persons site with the help of the ISPA.

    This person does not get that what they did was wrong. The xxttp://casino.net.za Team (lol) sent me this email.

    Hello xxxxx,

    The html code is NOT yours, bit according to the wp plugins on your site is tables reloaded, which is FREE table html code on the wordpress.org site ( xxttps://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/
    ) and developed by thomas batghe who i know well, and have tried... not very mobile compatible, i was in error using your block text and table as just that a lorem ipsum of sorts to try out LOOK AND FEEL. as i have with many other tables and responsive structures. notably on payments, where there is perhaps currently about 78 different hybrids that i am working into ONE workable solution.... ditto on that most will fall away and become original content once edited. Should you have written the code, you will have to prove it, and if so, why them use table press?

    According to IPSA, you have, as is your right informed me of your perceived infringement, and pages removed, so what further legal action, is up to you, but i cannot see it going anywhere as the matter has now been corrected.. ALL correspondence is also being cc'd to cloudfare as well as webafrica and i will forward to your hosting company as well. Like you, i too can amend, rezise and reword the bonus, links and info, reviews for certain casinos etc, so as the site is only going to launch in May, I really cannot understand all the fuss, as remedial action has been taken. The onus is on YOU to prove that the content on your site IS 100% original and indeed yours solely, so as per simple content / plagiarism searches by independent websites, much 'seemed' not to be.

    see our contact page xxttp://casino.net.za/contact/ and also go through the many links on the plagiarism sites which clearly indicate what text was and was NOT changes is is / not unique.

    Anyhow, off to fetch kids and will revert as soon as last three pages down as i can only be back home at +- 9 pm tonight. I am glad you are flattered about the content used, but it is no dissimilar to most ZA based casino sites, and please just understand that in developing a portal site, you throw in everything, see how it works or does not, and work from there to make. it really was NOT anything personal, and having perused about 700 other ZA and international sites rest assured, that 'your' information was not and will not be in my site, nor a key element of our future development.

    ALL the casinos you refer and are an affiliate to, are there as an OPEN market, and that it how this business works. Once again for YOUR protection review who you ARE promoting as some just seem to be dodgy for various reasons. I trust this matter is now resolved, and just as you do not like having words like theft, stolen thrown at you, nor do i, and within that context, i hope and trust that we can all learn from this and move on. I really have no real issue with you, and at the end of the day of ALL the info / testing / info put on you are the ONLY person to object. Other sites and affiliates seems to gladly leave it as be as THEY get the affiliate/ CPA commission for now, so like me doing their work

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    I recommended that THE TEAM should join the GPWA forum so that they may learn a little more about the error of their ways.

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