Tinseltown Times – Stealing Content

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  rachelekolb · Member · Aug 24, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  Tinseltown Times (http://www.tinseltownews.com/) is flat-out stealing content from my site and other sites and reprinting them in their entirety without my permission or anyone else’s permission. You can see other users asking Tinseltown Times to take down their posts, but they have refused: http://www.tinseltownews.com/copyrights/

  What can I do to stop this? Do I need to get a lawyer involved, or since this site is hosted by WordPress, can you take down their site altogether?

  Thank you,
  Rachel

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm

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  Hi Rachel,

  Tinseltown Times is not actually hosted here at WordPress.com. They operate a WordPress.org website, however they are self-hosted (which is different from being hosted here at WordPress.com).

  I just did a quick lookup, and they are actually hosted over at GoDaddy.com. If you would like your content removed your best bet is probably to submit a DMCA request. There are a number of guides online which will help you with this process. Here is one which even specifically mentions GoDaddy:

  http://gigaverse.com/guides/file-dmca-complaint-with-website-host/

  I hope this helps!