It occured to me that if a website is showing your content via cgi proxy and is getting links to such and returned in the SE, that would be a good grounds for a DCMA complaint on copyright infringement.

In which case dealing with it would be quite easy, just find out who is hosting the proxy site, send a standard DCMA stock letter to the host and that website account will get closed down.

Wouldnt it be the same with scraped content, if they have scraped original content, then again, a standard dcma to the host could have that site down within days or even hours.

It would be great if that were true, as it would mean instead of battling to stop scrapers and proxies showing your content, you can forget abot them, let them go ahead and then just shut them down as soon as their site starts showing up, so eventually they would get the message that it was a waste of time to even bother with such methods.

I am interested can anyone see any reason why the above method might not work?