[RachelFights]

Originally Posted by filmguy

Hi Rachel,

It's worth it to have a Cease & Desist letter template at your disposal for general use. The company I currently work for has a team of assistants who scour the internet for illegal streams and downloads of our content, and our policy with copyright violation has been as follows:

1. Send a polite email to the offender identifying yourself and giving them 24 hours to remove your intellectual property.

2. 24 hours later, send a follow up reminding them, saying that you will be seeking legal action if the content is not removed.

3. Send your cease & desist.

While there's nothing really iron clad, I've found that the standard cease & desist template is threatening enough and has enough legalese in it to work very effectively. Most people who host content don't want to pay to retain an attorney if they're sued, so they will usually respond to any type of carefully worded legal threat by caving in.

A good template is here: http://www.getfreelegalforms.com/copyright-cease-and-desist-order-website/

If they've currently taken down you video, then no harm done, however that forum has a history of ignoring copyright claims and continuing to post other people's materials.

Hope this helps. Everyone else ends their posts with "hope to be lifted by you someday" but I'm a fatass and that's not happening, so I just hope to enjoy more videos from you

Hi FilmGuy,
Thank you so much for your help! I have saved the template that you provided, and will have it handy the next time that this happens. Hopefully, it won't but, that is wishful thinking on my part I believe...