Tuesday, April 21, 2009

DMCA Copyright Takedown Notice #2

I've now received a DMCA takedown notice for Randy Haugen's explanation of how Amway went down the tubes. I'm beginning to wonder if Amway is sending me these to try to scrub the internet. Anyway, here is the text of the DMCA takedown notice:

Hello,

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that content in your blog:

http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com

allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others. The content in question
is located in the following posts:

http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/team-resigned-double-diamond-randy.html

The notice that we received, with any personally identifying
information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling
Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=10753. We do
this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post
the notice online at the link provided.

The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for
online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement.
Please see http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more
information about the DMCA, and see
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html for the process that Blogger
requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.

We are asking that you please remove the allegedly infringing content in
your blog. If you do not do this within the next 3 days (by 4/24/09), we
will be forced to remove the posts in question. If we did not do so, we
would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its
merits.

We can reinstate this content into your blog upon receipt of a counter
notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of
the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter
notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html#counter.

Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in
further remedial action taken against your Blogger account.

If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain
your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this
notification, please let us know.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

DMCA Copyright Takedown Notice

I just received a DMCA takedown notice for several posts either by Ron Simmons, on Ron Simmons site, or in one case just about Ron Simmons. Apparently Mr. Simmons is trying to clean up what he has said.

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.

The notice that we received, with any personally identifying
information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling
Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=10292. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided.

The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for
online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement.
Please see http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more information about the DMCA, and see http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html for the process that Blogger requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.

We are asking that you please remove the allegedly infringing content in
your blog. If you do not do this within the next 3 days (by 3/28/09), we will be forced to remove the posts in question. If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits.

Blogger can reinstate these posts upon receipt of a counter notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and 3) of the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see http://www.google.com/dmca.html#counter.
I just received the following takedown notice for several post either by Ron Simmons, or on Ron Simmons site, or in one case just mentioning Ron Simmons. Apparently Ron Simmons is trying to clean up his name online.

Here is the notice:

Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this notification, please let us know.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

Affected URLs:

http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/12/team-ron-simmons-overall-update.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/team-ron-simmons-legal-update-october.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2008/02/team-ron-simmons-february-2008-update.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/team-ron-simmons.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/team-rules-rules-rules.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/team-randy-and-don-respond-to-lawsuit.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/team-ron-simmons-sets-record-straight.html
http://crazyfunwildworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/team-setting-record-straight.html

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Interesting what's going on

While this blog references Quixtar and Amway quite a bit, it turns out that people who find this site are searching for the following:
1.randy haugen66
2.team monavie30
3.bill newton19
4.brig hart16
5.fred harteis15
6.brig hart lawsuit9
7.george guzzardo9
8.don wilson amway8
9.monavie team8
10.randy haugen quixtar8
The majority of the people who found this site were looking for information on Randy Haugen. My guess is he is showing a lot of MonaVie™ plans (as well as his team). Next up is Team MonaVie™ (which is how it is referenced in the opens now). Followed by other big leaders. Other leaders that lead to this site with a google search are (in order of searches): Billy Florence, Kirk Birtles, Tim and Amy Marks, Don and Ruth Storms, Brig Hart, Mark and Tammy Crawford, Bill and Jackie Lewis, Fred Harteis, Aaron Radosa, Bill Hawkings, Matt Abraham and Robert Dickie.

There are a lot of variations on Randy Haugen also.

Even though I have not been adding content for at least half a year, December had 846 people visit the site, mostly from the United States, but a good chunk from Canada and the UK. The top-ten states visited from are: California, Michigan, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Utah, Georgia and Ohio (with California and Michigan each being twice as much as any others). California is mainly the Bay Area, LA Area, San Diego and Hisperia (of all places). Michigan is mainly Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids (wonder who that could be). Florida is mainly Jacksonville, Ft. Myers and all along the south-east coast. Illinois is basically Chicago. Texas is Dallas, Houston and Austin.

I think this gives us an idea as to where Randy Haugen is growing his business.

Of the people who have visited since April, about a quarter of them visited the site more than 10 times.

The website that has referred the most people to this site (besides google) has been theiborebellion.blogspot.com followed closely by freetheiboblog.typepad.com.

Anyway, I hadn't been here in a while and thought I'd see who was visiting. Have a great day. Have Fun, Make Money, Make a Difference and Drink It, Feel It and Share It.