Freewebs.com - Webs.com Knowingly hosting Websites using stolen pictures (copyright infringement) Silver Spring, Maryland

Freewebs.com aka Webs.com is allowing websites that it hosts to use stolen pictures (copyright infringement) from other websites to scam the public. I, as well as several other owners of the stolen pictures, have contacted freewebs.com aka webs.com on several occasions with no response what-so-ever. The websites are still using the stolen pictures misleading the public. We have sent proof of ownership, as well as where the stolen pictures are located on the websites. It is as if freewebs.com aka webs.com condones these shoddy and illegal practices where the websites are scamming the public.

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We do not know if these websites actually have puppies for sale or what but with all of the puppy buying scams on the internet, one cannot be too careful.

Below are some excerpts from the Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code which pertain to an Internet provider's liability which can be seen in it's entirety at
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512
(1) In general. A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, if the service provider -

(C) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

(3) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, except that, for purposes of this paragraph, the information described in subsection (c)(3)(A)(iii) shall be identification of the reference or link, to material or activity claimed to be infringing, that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate that reference or link.

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Eads, Colorado
U.S.A.

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