RE: cracking site - how do we shut it down?

[Hester, Garyl]

} 
} Just one question. Do you actually hold the Copyright on the material
} you are talking about. If you don't have a registered copyright, then
} it isn't copyrighted. Technically this isn't absolutely true, but you
} are in a very untenable position unless you hold a real copyright.
} 
Not correct. According to copyright law, all works are implicitly
copyrighted when they are published unless they are specifically placed in
the public domain. To wit:

        "This work is hereby placed in the Public Domain."

Further protections are allowed if a statement of copyright is placed on/in
the work, to wit:

        Copyright (C) 1999, Foo Bar Productions. 

Registering your work with the US Copyright office is a step that gives the
copyright owner date of invention, which can be used in court to prove who
had what first. This, by and large, is pointless for software due to the
very nature of software, but they do provide rules for registering program
source code.