We are passionate about the crusade on plagiarism and copyright infringements. Over the years, we have used a service that scans the Internet for offenders. In most cases, a simple e-mail request to the site's owner will solve the problem. If the owner does not respond, the next step is to contact the hosting company. However, when one well-known hosting company refused to even consider our request without a Certificate of Registration number from the Register of Copyrights, United States of America. For the nominal fee of $45.00, the official copyright is a legal fortification in the battle. From experts we have consulted, without the official copyright, there is no point pursuing legal action in court. For steps we have outlined to effectively fight plagiarism, see:
5 Steps to Fight Website Plagiarism.