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I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.

I might actually do this, we were just discussing this at the office!

I'd buy too!

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.

I might actually do this, we were just discussing this at the office!

I would buy this as well, it's really a beautiful layout. Hence the copying.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Ouch: "Your website is slower than 95% of all tested websites" with a 28.85s load time. - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/eDa8U8X2P/http://ideaware.co...

Funnily enough, their website loaded slower than the ones who were ripping it, so I was initially confused about what the argument was as the large background image took ~20s to load/push down the rest of the layout. The JS on the navigation never started working either.

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The propeller site I'd consider flattering imitation, at least they are in a totally different lob :) For the other guys, talk to a lawyer or just someone who knows "legalese" well enough to formulate a serious sounding email complaining about copyright infringement and threatening with a lawsuit. And have someone with a title of "copyright lawyer" or "IP legal consultant"or anything along the lines co-sign that emai…

smacontech and smipropellers seem to be from India where you can't win a legal case without bribing the authorities heaviliy, unless your father himself is the head of cops or something. And anyway, law enforcement depts there wouldn't understand what "copying the layout of a website" means.

I'd guess that smacontech created the site for smiproperllers.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.

I might actually do this, we were just discussing this at the office!

+1

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#78

Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…

Does this mean copyrights aren't worth anything these days?

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#79

Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…

If someone really wants to copy your site they will do it anyways. I think the best option if its getting this much attention is to release a pay plugin/template or just opensource it. Or as you have already done publicly shame them (not much to gain by doing this though).

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.

Assuming that the people who are copying this code are able to code themselves, wouldn't it be easy to find the problem and fix it? Unless there was some incredible code obfuscation.

Subtle shenanigans could go for some time without being noticed.

And wouldn't people who can code themselves host their own javascript, rather than hotlinking someone else's?

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