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Found this from Bob on the Nightshade Books boards
The local police went over to the house listed on the site and talked to the residents, and it appears they're the victims of identity theft. Elizabeth Butler speculates that Bookaza might be harvesting credit card numbers. I see their IP address is in China, so it'll probably be tough to shut them down. Too bad for my neighbors down the road. They've apparently got a pile of cease-and-desist orders from New York publishers and cybersleuths have managed to suss out their VOIP phone number and start harassing them.
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I suspected Bookaza wouldn't use their real address and phone number on their domain name listing or on their site, and sure enough, it appears they didn't. The bastards stole someone else's identity.
Bookaza is still at it--just changing servers and IP addresses. Unfortunately, China is notorious for allowing piracy and doesn't respect copyright law at all.
Perhaps we should give tit for tat and all that. You know, find some really cool Chinese stuff to plagarise, pirate, and otherwise STEAL from the Chinese, and maybe they'll start respecting OUR copyrights and international copyright law.
Oh, even better, until China respects the rights of others, maybe US companies ought to stop buying their shitty cheap labor products, and US consumers ought to stop purchasing anything made in China. Apparently, fair and right aren't of interest to the Chinese. So let's hit them where it hurts--their pockets. It would be awfully hard for them to feed the billions of people that would be out of work if the US quit buying anything Chinese--and maybe they'll reconsider flipping the bird at us when it comes to stealing our intellectual property (or allowing others like this Bookaza guy from stealing it and protecting him).
Meanwhile, I'm going to keep hitting up the FBI and anyone else I can about these domains that are obviously run by someone in the US (HINT: godaddy.com registered them via credit card--maybe it was a legit credit card and they can be traced that way?)