How to deal with content thieves like fixya.com?

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Stan Brown

Apologies for the OTness, but if there's a better newsgroup
in the c.i.w.a hierarchy I failed to see it.

Last Monday I noticed that this page
http://www.fixya.com/support/t1898176-graphing_calculator_reads_err_invalid
is a verbatim copy of my content, posted here
http://oakroadsystems.com/math/ti83oops.htm#InvalidDim
in 2008, as shown by the change log. My permission was never
asked to copy my content.

I immediately sent a polite note through the "Report Abuse"
icon on the page, pointing out that this was my content, taken
without permission, and asking that it be removed. I sent a
similar note through their contact page at
http://www.fixya.com/contact
I got no reply to those notes, nor to the ones I sent on
successive days.

Hiring a lawyer is outside my financial means. My inclination
is to put a banner on every one of my pages, "Protest Fixya.com,
content thieves -- read details here" with a link to a page briefly
explaining the situation and asking people to protest to Fixya.
Any thoughts? is such a campaign likely to be effective? Is it
likely to have any bad consequences? Is there a better way to
approach this?
 
I apologize. I meant to post this to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, and I don't know why my
newsreader posted it to this group instead.

I've sent out a cancel, but those are usually ineffective
on most servers.

Again, my apologies.
 
I apologize. I meant to post this to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, and I don't know why my
newsreader posted it to this group instead.

I've sent out a cancel, but those are usually ineffective
on most servers.

Again, my apologies.
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Follow-up (just for the sake of the archives): they have now removed
the stolen content.
 
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