Hi: Sorry to barge in but I have an ongoing issue with intellectual property theft and need some help. Nothing found on the internet has helped so far, and you guys have assisted me with building my Flash movies and I hope you may know what my next step should be. Here's the problem:

I belong to another non-web design board, and one of the members there, though I didn't realize this at first, has been harvesting images and sound files from other web sites... including mine. And I mean harvesting beyond what some 13yr old kid might do to make his/her own site. This is a grown man in his 40's, and he's not taking the "free to the public" images, but logo images, sound files (even ones I paid for), and .swf files.

He has "bragged" about a program he's purchased that decompiles flash movies and he uses that program to extract the sounds, which he places on his site for others to take. I've had numerous arguments with him about taking my images, sound files, etc., and I noticed on his site today (the idiot sent me a link, of all things) that he's taken one of my .swf files and put it on his site. He doesn't have Flash and wont even buy a $10 hosting package to put his site on.

I have made movies for this guy in hopes he would leave my own work alone, but the harvesting continues.

What I need to know is how I go about taking care of this problem? I don't know what else to do and I'm so tired of my work being taken and used this way.

Oh, and my site has a 'Legalities' section that clearly states that no images on my site are free for the taking, and I list the link for the section of my site that has free images. There's even a section in honor of the artists who created the sound files (especially the Flash music). Some of these files I got for free and made Flash sound files or movies out of, while others I paid for the right to use.

I'm at my wits end. Sorry if this post is in an incorrect forum, but I wasn't sure exactly where to post my question.