How to fight against copyright infringment
Photics
Member Posts: 4,172
Did you find your iOS game illegally hosted on a website?
Does that website use Google AdSense?
Has there been unsatisfactory response to a take-down notice?
If the answer is yes, these links might be helpful to you....
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9894
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=dmca_complaint
Copyright infringement is not a compliment. It's theft. You can fight to protect your games!
Does that website use Google AdSense?
Has there been unsatisfactory response to a take-down notice?
If the answer is yes, these links might be helpful to you....
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9894
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=dmca_complaint
Copyright infringement is not a compliment. It's theft. You can fight to protect your games!
Comments
Don't think Google will play world police and sues all little crackers for you.
They don't want and they will not do that.
Secondly: forget it. It is senseless. You can't fight crackers.
Better said: you can, but it's pointless.
This will NEVER stop and you really can't do anything about it.
Cheers!
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9894
...you can read it for yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's something Google wants to do. It's something they have to do. Otherwise, their license agreements become meaningless. To be an AdSense publisher, you can't be doing illegal stuff on your website. Lots of advertisers don't like that. That's what wrongdoers may count on... but they're wrong. The Internet is not a wild frontier. It's traceable. Sure, you might not obliterate every instance of copyright infringement out there, but you can certainly attempt to stop them from getting paid by AdSense. If you succeed - that's less money in it for copyright infringers, then it's less likely to occur, and that's an improvement.
The attitude around here is incorrect.
1) You can do something
2) I don't see copyright infringement as a compliment or good advertising.
That makes sense from the point of view of google.
If cracker sites get paid for illegal activity by google, that sure, it is google's responsibility.
It just sounded, you wanted google handle all your legal stuff :-P
Waht they surely won't do.
You can hurt those sites by trying to close their money source, that's true. Maybe they quit then, but the next one will be there.
And to be honest I don't think, people, who visit those sites really are interested in advertisement. I don't think, you can make real money with it.
I have a few sites with google ad sense and if I get 100 dollars a month together, then I am already happy.
Adsense is a crap.
...and this part is a bit unrealistic... If they're going to steal my game, I doubt I'll be able to get the copy back from them. "Reasonable" is the keyword. I don't control iOS devices. Heh, I'm not going to walk the earth with a shotgun, checking iPhones for illegal copies of Annoyed Tomatoes.