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Before you can sue people for anything copied, stolen, whatever on the net. You must write a cease and desist letter.
It is your choice whom you send it to. You can send it to the web site owner or the host provider. Most of the time people send it to the host provider and advise them that illegal activity's is happening on the servers.
Why send it to the web site owners all they are going to do is argue with you.
Now, from a business point of view. Once you get the letter you delete what ever they are bitching about. Why? Because it stops the issue on the spot. The complaint was to stop it and you did. Case closed.
It's not worth the money to argue your case in court (for either side) over something like this. This most likely was a scare tactic that worked. The reason it's not worth the money is because you have to prove you lost something of value and to defend it in court will kill you in attorney fees.
This happens all the time, all over the net. Depending where the server is located, that is what laws apply. Write a letter like that to a server in China, they'll just push the post harder to steal more traffic. LOL. A server in the US they will pull it. (you get the idea)
Ask you server how they feel about the matter and go from there. Most of the time they never give it two thoughts. Repost the blog and at the end of it put a disclaimer. (in my opinion works too)
Now to give you a very popular case so you can relate to what I am saying: YouTube. Before Google bought it. Nobody complained about the copy written material (Tv shows, movies) that were on it. Why? They made no money.
Once Google bought it and reported what they paid, they law suits came rolling in because Google has money. They got the letter and a case number at the same time.
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