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This is pretty much what the DMCA and other copyright mechanisms were made for. Send your request to Google and have them delisted.

https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?hl=en

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I had my entire marketing site copied, word-for-word. I still have no idea why (other than perhaps to damage google ranking due to duplicate content?).

I reported it to google, and they removed it from search results in a few days. I also reported it to the site's host, who took it down completely.

Almost the same here - they copied my whole website, improved the user interface, and added a little content. Luckily I still outrank them :)

Yes, I would combine this with a couple of fake entries, and when those show up on their site, you file DMCA claims with google, and with their hosting provider. An american company has no choice but to shut their site down under threat of DMCA claims. If the site gets back up, add another fake entry, and do it again when they scrape you, until they give up.

He can also go after them with this. He can write them to take it down. If they don’t, go to the host and have them take the site down.

"Excuse me, could you put down my TV?"

Asking nice can work, but I find it depends on what is in my hand at the time.

Does anything stop the scraper from using DCMA on the original site?

They'd lose their source of data

Anything receiving 5k visits a month, is likely crawled at least once a day unless it's told not to. In this case, Google could check crawls and determine the original source of content between the two competitors.

If the source that is copying is also being crawled once per day isn't possible that it would be crawled first and appear to Google that it is the original source?

presumably site A got popular before site B started scraping it; else there wouldn't be much point in scraping A. There is ofc the scenario was A was a generally unknown resource, and B realized it had the potential to be valuable if you just SEO'd it right.. but there's still probably evidence somewhere that A cropped up first (how did B stumble into it?)

If they do, you respond with a counter-notice. nce you respond with a counter-notice, your provider needs to restore the content unless the copyright owner initiates legal action.

https://help.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-...

I would think that the scraper wouldn't want the source of their material to disappear, for one.

This is an excellent idea, especially because the system is automated and allows anything and everything through.

Just submit whatever politically incorrect thing you like in with a bunch of P2P links and watch the dissent disappear :)

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