thanks. this is a major security flaw that a site can be copied..... its not like they stole 1 page they copied the whole god damm site which means they accessed the site in a level way above signing in to my account which is a weebly security problem.

. my site uses css text using the element my site is unique. its hard to re create that which means they hacked the site ..

the new hosts have not replied....
i wrote to weebly directly, explaining in full detail and linked to a post i wrote about what happened

http://whitemonkeytravels.weebly.com/my-site-was-hacked.html

as u can see, i am not happy....

trevor

i filed a DMCA with Google in an effort to get this sorted  .  the new hosts have not replied.    i understand that weebly cant take the site down BUT am concerned over their lack of intetest in the fact that a weebly web page was simply copied  .

regards   whitemonkeytravels

The ability to do this isn't unique to Weebly and isn't a security flaw. I could go to wikipedia.org and save the HTML file of their home page and any images on the page with my browser, then upload it somewhere else (and then promptly get hit with a DMCA notice). If you want a web page to be viewable by a browser, then it will also give people the option to save it with their browser.

Think of it like this: say you're a band and you make a flier for a show that you put up around town. There's no way to stop someone from taking one and making a copy with their own band's name pasted over yours, short of never putting up a flier in the first place.

I'm sure that their host will take the site down, because if they don't they leave themselves liable for a lawsuit. Any web host who wants to stay in business will take any DMCA request seriously.

OMG     crazy !!

Thank u for that.    these new host have yet to contact me    and am waiting for GOOGLE to do their bit.

fingers crossed   it will be sorted shortly   .  

regards

i think someone sorted it     

Yea - looks like their web host took down their site.

My website has been copied and rebranded to another travel company.  

I have read this thread, but I'm still at a loss as to how to stop this from happening.  

This is my website:  Bookheregivehere.org

Now this site is http://travelforless.website/sites/escapetraveldeals/ is linked to me somehow and I can't figure out who it is other than it's registed in Panama.  

They have taken portions of my site and copied it with their logo on it.  I have formilla linked to it so the chat is still mine, but the contact page is not.  

the social media icons still link to me.  

How do I stop this? and how can I prevent this from happening in the future? 

Unfortunately, there's not really a way to stop someone from doing something like this in advance. This is true of pretty much any site on the internet - I could go download everything on the homepage of Amazon.com and upload it somewhere (then promptly get hit with a DMCA take down request). 

It looks like they're using Cloudflare, so I would submit a DMCA request to them here:

https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

They're also using Namecheap for the domain, so you could try submitting one to them, too:

https://support.namecheap.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

as Adam pointed out...u can stop it from happening   but u can reduce the impact.

i wrote these 2 pages  2 stop people copying images and text:

http://whitemonkeytravels.weebly.com/block-view-source-code-weebly.html

http://whitemonkeytravels.weebly.com/block-image-download-weebly.html

u can file a DMCA with google themselves.   i followed :  http://mechaplanet.org/file-dmca-request-with-google/#comment-3418

its long winded    but will hope fully get u a result....

also find who is hosting ur site   with      https://www.whoishostingthis.com..

then

google the host   contact them   and ask       not so nicely    ..... threaten them with googLe DMCA...

regards   whitemonkey    

as Adam pointed out...u CANNOT ********* stop it from happening but u can reduce the impact.