Myspace Layout Stolen, effing loser can't make his own layout Options

[--DANNY--]

I was looking at the detailed visitor stats for my website (DannyDahl.com) and I noticed a large amount of hits from a myspace profile. Upon visiting the profile I see some mexican guy's face and text plastered all over my layout. He even used the same wording for each section on the profile. Same exact code... exactly the same.
He used a different picture of his face and slightly changed the background.

looking at the code of the profile, I see img references to like 10 images that are on my profile and hosted on my website.
my freaking Trakzor and cbtracker images are even on there! (that explains why i thought i had a million stalkers from new york all of the sudden)

aaaanyways, I'm pissed.
So before emailing him asking him politely... eff that shite this biznitch is even using this for his design myspace, showing off his work he's designed... he probably didn't do any of it.
so instead of messaging him, i sent an email to the Copyright Infringement staff of Myspace asking that all of the content be removed from the offender's profile, along with the deletion of his account if possible because I will not tolerate plagurisim.

If myspace staff is unhelpful, I'll probably try to screw over the bandwidth of his freewebs account that is hosting the 2 images that are his on the profile, and once that's done, then send him legally threatening email.

I'd link to the profile, but I don't want anyone tipping this mexican bastard off before myspace sees the profile.


Anyone else deal with this before? what did you do?

[S-Majere]

I'm totally with you on this - I've dealt with a helluva lot of thieves in the past. It irks me that people cannot grasp just how upsetting it is to see your hard work - that you provide for FREE - being ripped off and treated like shit. There's no feeling like it.

Well, hell hath no fury and all that - I go all out. I've stopped actively seeking infringers now because it just made me stress out too much, but if I find one I don't stop until my work is credited, replaced, taken down or whatever.

In order to successfully report an Infringement of Copyright to Myspace Support - you will need to complete an electronic form, with your name, address, signature etc and fax (or mail) it to their office. It's a pain in the ass and I've got as far as filling half of it out before realising I was wasting my time.

Now what I usually rely on is the implied threat of legal action and the fact that I have about a billion and one friends I can request a spamfest of (though that part goes unmentioned). The very fact that you have exposed this thief as a complete fraud is usually incentive enough for your work to be removed.

I have every sympathy.