I got an email on Friday from Rapidshare.com in Switzerland asking me to remove my Rapidshare Blogsearch page. Here's the email:
To whom it may concern,
we have recently become aware of your website
http://megatao.com/rapidshare
.php and your use of our company’s intellectual property on this website.
The trademark “Rapid Share” has been registered both in the European Union (trademark number 004753828) and the United States (trademark number 78717634). By using our company name/logo on your website you are therefore violating our company’s right in the trademark “rapid share” as well as our company’s copyrights.
We demand that you (a) cease and desist using the aforementioned material and (b) remove any content that concerns Rapidshare.com.
We consider your website an attempt to harm our business. If you insist on continuing your illegitimate service, we will take legal actions.
Best regards,
RapidShare AG - Abuse Team
abuse@rapidshare.com
|2695|RapidShare AG
Gewerbestrasse 6
CH - 6630 Cham
Switzerland
Not being one to laugh in the face of authority or cause a kerfuffle, I contacted them and we agreed that I could change the name of the file to avoid a lengthy prison sentence. They also suggested that I add a disclaimer in case I get in trouble for supplying links to copyrighted material. So thats next on my list too.
So Rapidshare Blogsearch now becomes RSS Link Search. I have set up a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file to allow people to still navigate directly to the page and carry on using it without a hitch.
It kind of came at a good time as I am working on something else a little bigger and better, so I will now concentrate on that rather than re-designing the page as I was going to do. Shame though as I was going to easily get enough from the Adsense earnings to pay for my next year of webhosting. Still, it will still be there "bringing home the e-bacon".
All I need now is for Index, the catalogue company (now Argos) to email me asking me to remove all my index.html and index.htm files and I will truly be screwed!
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Tao
What a performance eh! Just think if they hadn’t of contacted you we may have been sending you emails to the local clink! You would have been the first ex Royal Mail Helpdesk guru to have been serving time and stirring porridge ewwwwww!!!
You could have been a real tea bitch then to the lovely nonse’s inside.I’m sure they would have found you a “nice job” !
Fancy writing something like that…. and THEN saying ‘best regards’ at the end! I’m sure they REALLY meant that! Twats!
It’s all eBollocks.
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