Did you invent the wheel too? lol...
I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
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#242Is it just me, or are there tons of redundant repaints of the same background image in the "Recent Work" Section, with the black and white cellphone?
Beautiful site, but my framerate really took a dive when I got to this section! Hurts the experience.
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#243We had a similar situation several years ago with our site:
And this Chinese knock-off:
Not only did they rip off our design but they also use a bunch of our product photos. We himmed and hawed about doing something about it but ultimately realized there really was nothing we could do to enact any real change. At the end of the day any site's CSS is open source by virtue of the technology (and our product images were already CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licensed anyway).
So we said screw it. We decided that the best way to assert this design was our own was to run a better website, and more so, just run a better business. In the end it hasn't dented our traffic. GE Tech looks sort of like SparkFun but it sure is a lot more rough around the edges. We've continued to refine our design with less of a Geocities palette while never really caring what those Chinese ripoff artists are up to. It's irrelevant. We'll continue to define our web presence without using them for context, and if they continue to grab skin-deep features from us then terrific - we're a source of inspiration and should be proud.
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#244lol, did you invent the wheel too?
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#245Looks to me like you've now got a fantastic portfolio page.
"Our creative & design is so good, its copied by a number of digital agencies and businesses including Dapatical Global, ..."
Perhaps even parody testimonials are in order.
"Our in house designer was out of ideas and the drafts from 99sites were sub par. That's why we 'borrowed' the work of AM - it was far superior to anything we could have done ourselves' - Max, CEO RevoBlue.
Yeah it sucks that a heap of sites Cltr-C'd your work. But there are better ways of addressing this.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is interesting to see how the community reacts when someone steals their work. There are some good suggestions (e.g. the parent here) like contacting the owners of the offending sites politely. Quite a few of the other comments seem pretty malicious in nature. Like serving up javascript which behaves mischievously. It doesn't seem to matter to these people if the site owners were victims of bad and lazy designers.…
>" everything else be free and open." Not, open source is not the same thing as piracy, or plagiarism... in fact is the opposite thing Copyright and proper atributtion to the creator of the original work is covered in (all?) open source licenses and it is expected to be guaranteed and clearly stated in all derived works. This is not the case here.
I was not talking about open source in particular...
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#247I think you might just be taking the wrong approach. Shaming them is a bad idea, at least as a first move. Seek-out and contact the owners of these businesses. Point out what you have discovered. There's an outside possibility that they have no clue that their web designers have done this. They might actually feel rather embarrassed to learn so. If I couldn't code my own sites and had to rely on designers who took th…
I'm not against your general point. But take this website: http://dapaticalglobal.com/ This is a case of a design company that basically ripped off the design of another design company. They used almost exactly the same sub-title on the first page. As for the bottom page, it is the same, word for word. I mean, they didn't even bother changing it. What do you think the OP should do? Call it's competitors and tell them…
It is terrible that they even call themselves a design company. If they are willing to blatantly rip off another design for their own branding - imagine their poor clients.
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#248Hi all, I'm a designer and I have been under a similar situation - I have been, many, many times as a designer, asked to design something exactly like what my client has showed me, which most of the times was, another site. I haven't accepted a single offer from such clients, but I know how exactly they all work. Here's how it works: 1) The client keeps stalking a particular site he likes, which is usually a competit…
...and then you go to the Elements inspector and "Copy as HTML", and then go to the Sources tab and "Pretty print" the CSS and JS, I try to hold myself on doing negative comments because we never really know all the reasons behind a decision as stupid like this, but really? Do you also disable right clicking with an alert("This content is property of my site bitches!!!")?
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#249This is a joke right ? or is it just a clever marketing trick ?
if not, I Seriously think this whole copyright thing should die. apparently this design is very typical, its not like you have invented some unique jquery scrollTo plugin, or the fonts/icons.
so a few people copied your website as is, some others might change it a bit more, what's the big deal ? I see your website as a copy of some other hundred websites I've seen before here and there (check theme forest for example).
Let people copy and do what they like .. if you want to protect, probably dont put it on a client side.
welcome to the internet ..
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the difference is that they're making a direct profit from copying, rather than just sharing knowledge.
I understand that there is a difference. What I have difficulty understanding is the semi-vitriolic hate.
From a designer's perspective: design has an element of personal "style". It takes a lot of hard work to develop your own aesthetic, which makes it highly frustrating when someone lazily swipes it and passes it off as their own.