Litigation

Over the past few weeks we have noticed that our copyrighted content was regularly appearing on a site called settledmoney.com. Settledmoney.com also used our category headings and the confusion was such that I heard from several friends who questioned me about it  because the site claims to be about money now-one of my favorite targets of late.

The settledmoney.com site is owned by someone whose name, or pseudonym is Jesse James of Austin Texas. The site is registered through Godaddy.com and hosted on servers at dimesnionsystem.com in a Pennsylvania location eerily close to the folks from Bryn Mawr although no connection has been made at this time.

This author sent a cease and desist notice to Mr. James and also informed Godaddy's copyright complaint area as well as a similar department at Google. The owner of Settledmoney.com had positioned himself to profit off my content through the placement of Google Adsense ads on pages featuring my content, which again was not authorized.

This evening I received the following email from Mr. James.

From: Jesse James

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:29:44 -0500

To: 'structures'structures@aol.com

Subject: RE: Attention Jesse James

John -

I was not aware that this site was using your content. I acquired it some time ago 'as is' and was told that all the content was source. Upon further investigation, I learned that there is some plugin that essentially 'scrapes' content from various sites. Yours was on the list among others. I have personally gone in and deleted all content (I believe) that was created from that plugin.

I apologize for the hassle.

Jesse

With the cooperation of Mr.James an investigation is ongoing as to who told Mr. James that the content was source.