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Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by petenixey »

I'm guessing that the traffic from this will alert them pretty soon so either way you'll want to take action quickly Hiroki.

Might be fun to hellban them, alter your JS to show visitors nothing when they visit their sites. Won't last for long but if you only do that for visitors with fewer than 3 visits then it'll take them a little while to figure it out.

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by pmelendez »

timdorr wrote: post #17

It's actually quite easy: Find their host and, if they're in the US, issue a DMCA notification: $ dig resinternationalgroup.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: resinternationalgroup.com. 18788 IN A 66.206.15.100 $ dig -x 66.206.15.100 ;; ANSWER SECTION: 100.15.206.66.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN PTR cpanel.siteplot.com. Send the email over to support@siteplot.com. If that doesn't work, go up to their datacenter: $ whois 66.206.15.100 ..…

They seems to be in Europe though... what happens in that case?

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by xhedley »

The business problem isn't the ripoff, it's the fraud in your business space of easy online direct debit set ups. If lots of fraudsters set up in this area with convincing sites, your customers' customers will worry about providing their bank details. Suggest talking to your sponsoring direct debit bank about shutting the fraudulent sites down. Or you could report to actionfraud.police.uk but I suspect your bank has better connections.

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by Beltiras »

DanBC wrote: post #29
escaped_hn wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be an abuse of the DMCA since its just a design (see Flat-Ui).

No. This is directly using (even hotlinking some assets) the OPs copyrighted materials. FlatUI had 3 icons that were "similar"[1] to icons in LayerVault. There wasn't any clear copying of assets. [1] for some values of similar, including "not similar".

Oh, the hotlinking of assets is murder waiting to happen. Show him whatfor!

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by potatolicious »

Beltiras wrote: post #46
DanBC wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. This is directly using (even hotlinking some assets) the OPs copyrighted materials. FlatUI had 3 icons that were "similar"[1] to icons in LayerVault. There wasn't any clear copying of assets. [1] for some values of similar, including "not similar".

Oh, the hotlinking of assets is murder waiting to happen. Show him whatfor!

The hotlinking is caused by a straight-up copy of OP's JS files. This is a pretty clear cut case of copyright infringement - a DMCA takedown is not abusive here.

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by johnx123-up »

charliepark wrote: post #20

Just add this to your JavaScript onload (and replace "yourdomain", of course): if(window.location.origin.indexOf("yourdomain.com")

I think, better approach would be to change your HTML files and link them to newer version of JavaScript files. But, in old JavaScript add a virus code that blanks the page or do some kind of notice

Re: Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

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Post by Mahn »

jacobr wrote: post #33
charliepark wrote: post #20

Just add this to your JavaScript onload (and replace "yourdomain", of course): if(window.location.origin.indexOf("yourdomain.com")

You just linked to a domain registrar, please use example.com in examples.

I'm having a hard time trying to picture people on HN reading the comment and thinking "cool! yourdomain.com! I wonder what's in there!"
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