brian mcdonald
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i contact dmoz and was told there was nothing i could do to "prove" copyright infringement and as such there was no chance they would remove the offending site from their director


Which is right. How is DMOZ supposed to know which is the copy? Your competitor could be saying the same thing about you. I am sure the site will get dumped if there is some sort of legal proof. You need to pursue other avenues re the copyright and not blame DMOZ.

i provided links to the other guys website on Archive.org which show his website from it's earliest inception. A very cursory examination of that site will demonstrate my point very clearly. there is also no way i could have "influenced" the archive into showing fraudulent data to support me. getting legal proof will cost me 4 years approximately and well over a hundred thousand dollars. even then how do i "prove" to dmoz satisfaction the judgement is "real".

from my perspective dmoz is helping someone profit from their theft of my design work so pardon me if i feel a tad put upon.