Excited about DMCA

Yes, I am excited about the law that allows me to protect my copyright. Since my previous posting on the site theft there were some more good news. The links to the illegals site disappeared now from Google, Yahoo and MSN. The site has been forced to change its hosting provider.

I was contacted by Jonathan Bailey who runs the site www.plagiarismtoday.com. We have exchanged a few e-mail messages and Jonathan gave me very valuable assistance in my fight to get the illegal site down. The www.plagiarismtoday.com site itself is definitely worth reading.

Speaking of my excitement, there is a fact that impresses me most about DMCA. I am not a U.S. citizen and live outside of U.S. The designated owner of the domain where illegal copy of the site is placed is also not a U.S. citizen and also lives outside of the U.S. Moreover, we both happen to live in Russia. The only tool though that I could find to protect my copyright was the U.S. law. And it did the work for me. Well, I did not actually get the complete success yet, but the situation has improved significantly.

It is a bid weird that the U.S. law works to protect copyright of one Russian citizen infringed by another Russian citizen. I wish there were a law in Russia that could be used in this situation. And I am really happy there is DMCA that I can use.