Take Down Notice To Demonoid. Shame on Dell and MGM

Today, Demonoid was open for new memberships, so I took a look around to see which big companies are giving financial support to illegal activity.

DEMONOID is supported by advertising from DELL COMPUTER 

(Horizontal Header banner advert for some cheap laptop, suitable for pirates)

DEMONOID is supported by advertising from MGM Grand Las, Vegas

(Large right hand, vertical sidebar advertisement for cheap rooms and gambling)

 

Alas, I attempted to inform Dell by telephone of their unwitting support of illegal activity on the internet, and Dell forwarded me endlessly until a machine hung up on me after giving me some irrelevant phone numbers I might like to dial instead.

MGM was more gracious but clueless. However, their telephone operators spoke very good English, sounded caring, and did not sound as if they were answering the phone while eating hardboiled eggs whole. Eventually, I was forwarded to a screaming FAX machine.

I am going to try to bill Demonoid. I feel that I ought to set a nominal financial value on my work on principle, even though I recognize that most of the 435 people who downloaded my books would never have purchased a copy, even at $2.00

Besides, according to Demonoid's TOS, all users indemnify Demonoid against all costs, and I am curious to see what happens when the TOS are invoked.

To abuse@demonoid.com

Dear Sirs,

My name is Rowena Cherry. I own the copyright to novels by Rowena Beaumont Cherry and also by Rowena Cherry.

It has been brought to my attention that one of your users << xxxxx >> is in violation of your very responsible terms of service and also of the laws of the United States of America, in that << xxxxx >> has uploaded copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner (myself, Rowena Cherry).

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1979090/?show_files=1&page=1&ref=1275500711#file_list
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1979090/?show_files=1&page=1&ref=1275500711#file_list

Details of the torrent can be found here  http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1979090/

The files in the torrent are
http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/1979010/5996105

and
http://www.demonoid.com/files/downloadtxt/1979090/5996105

http://inferno.demonoid.com:3415/announce

The torrent has been downloaded 233 times
Target files have been downloaded 202 times.

If you wish me to bill your user xxxxx, pursuant to the TOS requiring your members to fully indemnify Demonoid against costs arising from copyright infringement, please provide me with her full name, telephone number, and mailing address.

If you do not wish to share Demonoid user xxxxx's contact information, please accept this as notice of billing for 233 x $5  ($1,165) which is the lowest price for which the two novels may be purchased legally together, plus the lowest price for which either novel sells is $2 x 202. 

Please therefore remit  Total: $1,569

Statements

I hereby declare under penalties of perjury that the following statements are true and accurate. I hereby state that I, Rowena Cherry also known as Rowena Beaumont Cherry have a good faith belief that the "sharing" of my novels is not authorized by me, the copyright owner, nor any  other rights holders, their agents or the law, Moreover, I state that
I am authorized to act on behalf of myself in this matter.

Your display and sharing of my copyrighted novels, Forced Mate and Mating Net constitute an infringement of my exclusive rights to make copies and to distribute copies, constitute an infringement of copyright and other intellectual property rights.

I, Rowena Cherry have never authorized the material to be disclosed or published by you or your user(s).
My full contact information is as follows:

 (redacted)