Sir. I am very sorry sir. I thought you said the case was closed. Please sir, its not a fight between 2 countries. I have realised my mistake and removed the content. I did not know that copyrights existed for free content. I am sorry sir.

Yes, there are different people in any country.
I remember Enron, but this is not a valid analogy. I can state that Enron case is not typical for USA. So anushka, instead of getting into demagogy, just answer the question: is this typical for India or not? I can ask you a couple of more questions. Is paying for software typical in India? Is bootlegging computer books, printing them on the rice paper and selling $1-$3 each typical in India? I'm sure these things may happen in the USA as well, but they are not typical here.

I am referring to your line" wondering if it is a common practice in India" from your blog about stolen content. I think it is ridiculous to even think like that. Simply because one person in India stole your content does not mean every other person in India does the same. You cannot attribute the quality of one person to over a billion persons. Let me remind you, that there are good and bad people in every country. Have you forgotten about tyco, enron.....these were also people trying to make a quick buck....

Just want to make sure that people do not jump into conclusions. India has lots of good people. Read this:
http://www.sulekha.com/groups/postdisplay.aspx?cid=661401&forumid=756919

"Deeply sorry" Hemanth has removed my content from his Web site...and sold the site with someone else's content to another person. Below is the letter I've received from the unfortunate buyer.

Hello Yakov,

I'm the unlucky buyer of javaprogrammingworld.com that Hemanth Balaji
sold. The sale of the web site was completed yesterday, and I did a search after buying the domain and landed on your page. If I had known about the copyright issues, I would have not bought it from him. Now that I have bought the website, I don't know how I should proceed with the web site.
Should I remove the links to your content or should I mention your name somewhere on the web site and credit you for the content? At this point, I don't even know what content Mr. Hemanth has stolen from your web site.
It would be great if you could send me a detailed email about what content is
yours and such. I also would like to treat this e-mail as confidential and not post it anywhere on your online properties such as blogs, web sites or e-mail conversations etc. I am based in the United States and I hope
you don't go after me and take any legal actions because I bought the work of
Mr. Hemanth and I wasn't the original author. I am interested in resolving this matter and I hope we can come to a mutually beneficial agreement.

Yes I agree to that Mr. Yakov. I am deeply sorry. And first place thank you for the time to reply to my feedback.

Hemanth,

Yes, I am providing this content for free for the same reason: I'm just helping your (and many others) school friends. I do not have problems with people providing links to my lessons, but you just copied my materials to your site without even mentioning my name. It's a special way to help your friends...
According to your reasoning, you can take the entire content of Bruce Eckel's book (he provides it online for free as well), copy it to your site and your school friends will think that you wrote it.

I am going to remove all the content of smartdataprocessing. Actually I was not copying your content. Since you were providing your content free I thought i can have one more site with the same content.I was just helping my school friends. I am really Sorry Sir. I shall remove it.

Yeay right, you Indians know your laws better or the lack of it, if you had any laws over there, we wouldn't be talking about this criminal activity now.

This is sad that the culprit here is an Indian but please don't start the outsourcing debate here. Yakov you have every right to sue this individual (who just happens to be an Indian) as Kathy did.

Hello,

I myself am an Indian and it pains me to see that some guy
sitting down there in bangalore just goes over and picks the source code and redistributes.

This is shocking and I understand when you say that is there any international law for this.... Well I guess not much that you can do

But then again why not atleast try and inform the guythat you have taken a "serious note" of the thing and are contemplating further action. You stand atleast 20% chance of he acceding in this case.

Once again sad is this case of blatant copying!

Regards
Manish

Another one:
India Times blogger steals from J2ME Archive
http://billday.com/2005/10/05/india-times-blogger-steals-from-j2me-archive/

We just found that site a couple of days ago as well, since this guy had one of our books up there in electronic form, as part of his "package" for sale. Our McGraw-Hill editor wrote to him, and he immediately took our book off his home page, but then he left links to it in other places on his site. But you're right, another site just like it will spring up if this one goes away. We get word of someone offering one of our books for download several times each month. Our publishers just keep writing those letters...

American companies should keep outsourcing to India, a land with no laws! US companies should also think about the Metlife offshore to India experience, their Indian company taking hostage of millions of American citizens' social security numbers and medical records. Metlife settled this hostage situation by paying millions of dollars in ransom fees to the Indian aoutsourcing company. Welcome to India my friends and good luck to you Yakov and thousands of other Yakovs.

Over the years I wrote and published a bunch of free online lessons on Java programming. Most of them were republished with my permission by Java Developer's Journal. Many of these lessons were videotaped by SYS-CON Media and are available for free at SYS-CON.TV. Yesterday someone sent me a link to the site, which basically used all my lessons without any permissions or references. A simple search at whois.org shows that this domain is registered in Bangalore, India.