Legal Question in Technology Law in Alabama

Re: Notice of Copyright Infringment

Until you are actually sued, you don't need a lawyer, but you should keep PRISTINE copies of every page that you had to take down and all corespondence,-- that means no fiddling with the HTML, so that if will stand as evidence.

You don't want to provoke them,--porn sites are the highest profit margin sites on the web and you can expect that they will protect their wares aggressively. Just sit tight and if nothing further comes of it, then fair enough.

It's unclear whether you have the right to delete files from your computer at this point, because you are on notice that a suit might be filed against you. You are in a catch 22,--if you delete any pirated material, then you might be accused of destroying evidence, but if you leave it, then it's just evidence for the porn lawyers and any other software vendor who gets wind of it to come after you...Maybe I'll write an article on that one!

What the person did was definitely not kosher. Further, your ISP has a server-level record of all the traffic from your page to the porn site, so it's an easy matter to figure out how much damage the links-out actually did.

Re: Notice of Copyright Infringment

It is hard to answer this question without knowing what the text of the letter is. I would certainly consult an attorney if it were me.