Fake or True?? Help!!!

[Chirag]

Jst got this mail now:

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I, the undersigned, certify under penalty of perjury that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am authorized to act on behalf of J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books and owner of copyright rights therein, and Scholastic Inc., exclusive U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, including without limitation the cover and all other art incorporated therein (collectively, the "IP Owner"). I have a good faith belief that the materials identified below are not authorized by the IP Owner, its agent, or the law and therefore infringe the IP Owner's rights according to state and federal law. Please act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material or items claimed to be infringing.

I may be contacted at the below address/phone/email. Thank you in advance for your immediate attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Margo Baender
Counsel | Scholastic Inc. | 557 Broadway | NYC NY 10012
P: 212.343.6547 | F: 212.343.6965 | mbaender@scholastic.com

Infringing Materials:
(Can't post link)

Lol I m scared.... Is it a spam or ture???

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Thats true,considering you posted that on http://www.ebookscottage.com/?p=551

[Charan]

Do as they say. Remove the material before it becomes worse. Please check the internet header of that email. If the original emailID is there in that header then this email is genuine. The book you have posted is copyrighted.

EDIT:@Chirag you are in a lot of trouble.

[Chirag]

Its everywhere on the net and they sent mail only to me..

Title: Notice of Infringement/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Header email: mbaender@scholastic.com

[faraaz]

You don't use proxy servers?? Or anonymous web surfing software?? And you are so clearly identifiable? And why post it like that?? You could just post a torrent...

Nothin to be done now, just take down the page, don't say anything directly to this person, and hope it goes away.

Worst comes to worst, you are Indian and as such not directly subject to their local copyright violation laws. Unless they REALLY come after you with a vengeance and get the Indian government involved in which case you are FsCKD...

Just take it down man...

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Originally Posted by Chirag

they sent mail only to me..

How do you know that
Remove it as soon as possible.

[Chirag]

^^
Well I asked my frnds and none of them have got..
Yea removed now. It got me 10k visitors.

[vish786]

yes its true its already on net but y do u want unnecessary problem.... its wise to remove it .

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Originally Posted by charangk

EDIT:@Chirag you are in a lot of trouble.

nah,I dont think so.

[Chirag]

Trouble now???? I removed na..

[Charan]

@Chirag man I went through your site. You will be in a lot of trouble sooner or later. I suggest you take a look at all the copyright notice of all the material you have posted. And if you the one who has uploaded to Rapidshare and other sites then also you will be in trouble.

Here you go .. EDITED ON REQUEST

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Whoa,the site is full of copyrighted material.Take all of it down.

[iMav]

relax dont worry ... dont get in touch with the guys who sent u the mail .... pull off everything ... close the site dis-continue ur acc and lay low ...

[Chirag]

But there are many sites there on the web with same contents. Can't name here. No I have not uploaded, I jst index them.. One digit member got a similar site and he hasn't got any probs yet.

[Charan]

Its already cached by google. any one will be able to view just by selecting the cached page.

This is G o o g l e's cache of EDITED ON REQUEST as retrieved on 12 Jul 2007 18:12:06 GMT.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.
This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. Click here for the cached text only.
To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: EDITED ON REQUEST

[Third Eye]

relax dont worry.

[faraaz]

Yeah, as I said in my earlier post, it is important...DO NOT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL IN ANY COMMUNICATION THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO YOU and can be used AGAINST you in anyway, clear?? If things get serious and you say ANYTHING, they will find a way to make it look like you are selling pirated CDs in your house or something.

Just remove everything, play it cool and you will be okay...

[iMav]

Please act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material or items claimed to be infringing.

u did so ... relax ... close the site acc of urs ...

[Chirag]

Omg omg omg. I have removed hp book. Any idea what to do to remove it fully. No one could ever see it on my site even thru google.. Any idea?

[Charan]

well i could get the page from google.. posted the links above.. if you want I will remove the link

[Chirag]

^^
Yea yea plz remove. But one thing is that one member owns excatly a site with same content since 2 and half years. No probs to him yet and he is even earning thru adsense.

[Charan]

Its all come to one single day and one single bad post for you to get ****ed

[infra_red_dude]

jus take it down for a while.... forget adsense and earning now.. jus ensure ur safety first....

[Chirag]

Nah actually me going to boarding school in 15 days so me gonna take down my site anyhow. No adsense money now.

Ok temp changed the index. Me safe now?

[iMav]

ya ...

if ur adddress is ... http://www.thinkdigit.com ... it means in www or public_html replace the index file ... if ur address is http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum ... then replace the index file in www/forum

[Chirag]

^^
Yea done and removed everything related to Harry Potter.

[~Phenom~]

@chirag , u did the right thing by removing it. Once I posted an article on my blog from some international news site and forgot to give the source. next day , i got the mail and also the comment on the same post saying to remove the post as it is their intellectual property. I removed it at once , then i again got their mail acknowledging my act of removal and warning me not to do it again.

[Charan]

@Phenom Did you leave any message after removing the post? or just left a blank page.

@Chirag Please do let us know if you do get any acknowledgement from them.

[~Phenom~]

^^I left a message saying "Copyrighted content removed."

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Chill Nothing gonna happen.....see piratebay...they get tons of letters...who gives a damn