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April 05, 2004

InsyncSoft, Doteasy, and Plagiarism

I am sad to report that the hosting company Doteasy does not abide by their own posted policies, but instead permits websites to remain live that contain plagiarized materials, which futhermore are using those plagiarized materials to commit fraud.

Doteasy is the hosting company for InsyncSoft, the company I exposed in an earlier post as an internet scam artist committing fraud, who openly plagiarized 4 pages of their website from our SharpSoft website. Doteasy was notified by email not once but twice last week that their client was in abuse of their own policy against "Content that infringes or violates any copyright, patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of any third party." (from the Doteasy website, under "Service Terms & Conditions", item #13). We not only informed them of the copyright violations, but I personally supplied them with links to every page on the InsyncSoft site that was in violation, along with a link to our website. We requested that they abide by their stated terms and conditions, and pull the website immediately.

So far, we have received no response whatsoever from Doteasy, and the InsyncSoft site, full of pirated web copy and perpetrating fraud, is still live.

It's bad enough that there are so many dishonest people out there, who are willing to steal what is not theirs, and are willing to use the stolen material to commit fraud and theft on a grand scale. It tarnishes internet commerce, and makes it that much harder for legitimate businesses to gain the trust of the consumer.

How much worse is it that hosting companies and providers refuse to enforce their own policies, and apparently do not care that they are aiding and abetting in such theft and fraud?

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