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Old 2008-03-03, 11:15 AM   #8
Simon
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It's never the $20 that concerns us here.

Have you ever had your host served with a DMCA Take-Down Notice because you had content on your site which belonged to a copyright-holder who hadn't given you permission to use it? How about having that happen while you're away on a trip and by the time you see the notice, your host has already removed your website from the Net?

Sure, once you get back and remove the content in question, they can put your site back on the Net. And let's say you only make a few hundred dollars a day from your website and you're only offline for a day or two. But now how much would I have saved by buying something for $20 without the needed copyright documentation? Or would I have lost some money, and some search engine traffic, and maybe some link trades that got killed when the site went offline temporarily?

Not everyone gets this point.

Even if you were home when the DMCA Notice was received, you'll still have to spend time locating and removing the content on your site(s), and responding to the Notice so you don't get your site shut down.

Are we still deducting all this from the $20 savings..?

So... do you have the copyright documentation for these 600 games?
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