Long story made short
Step 1 - the handshake
I see some content posted on another webmasterforum, and wanted to use it with a blog I am building for a side-project during this month.
So I contact the webmaster on ICQ, tell him that I wanted to use 3-6 pictures of the content for a few blogposts, but dident want to sign up as a affiliate. I would just send the traffic directly to his domain with no reffcode (people usually pay me big $ to do that). So he get free traffic and free signups.
- The domain the content would be listed on is showed to him, along with two exampels of work for similar models and programs.
- The guy thinks it sounds great, and he even give me a login to the membersection so i can take all the content I want
Step 2 - the hard work
I spend 6-8 hours on
Handwriting 10 blogposts
Shedule them for publishing over the next 3 weeks.
Add another two posts with her name immediately, to show him that I mean business.
Add incomming links from 4 other blogs of mine, where I mention her name and link to her TAG on my new blog.
Step 3 - the WTF!!
Then I wake up to a message on ICQ, that "the models dont like the domain, so I have to take the content down ASAP"
I tell him that he is a idiot, his models are idiots and he is free to go fuck himself, and then I take down the content -
AND SHOW HIM I HAVE TAKEN IT DOWN
Step 4 - Anal penetration
Now I come home from a meeting and find a DMCA takedown notice for content that isent on the server.
- The DMCA is send under false premises
- I have IP stamped ICQ logs that prove he gave me permission to use it, and yet he claim he dident
Question for you legal experts out there:
What would you do?
Ignore him and move along?
Make him pay the fine for sending that kind of BS?