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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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Post by dserodio »

vacri wrote: post #266
mijustin wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. I don't agree with this response at all. "Allow them to use the design for a small fee"? The original site design was the product of careful branding, long hours of coding, and probably countless revisions: the point of all this work is to create something that uniquely represents the company. Responding to piracy by "homogenizing" an original design isn't the answer. The rest of the business world is definitely…

trust me: if you steal an image from Getty Images, they don't let you get away with paying a "small fee" That's because the product of Getty Images is the image. You're not infringing on their branding, you're taking their actual product. Apples and oranges.

Not apples and oranges if the OP's business is design

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Post by aussieoioi »

dusing wrote: post #209
sequoia wrote: post #173

OP is going overboard with the accusations. http://www.capta360.com http://www.creativegerms.com/about http://pearlwebstudio.com ^None of these people are "copying" him, at least visually. OP did not invent links with vertical scroll or the vertical parallax effect. OP: Clearly some of the sites outright ripped off your design, but stop trash talking sites with designs you merely think are "similar" to yours.

I thought the same thing, they are pretty different. http://www.capta360.com/ is not even close. Maybe he's saying they use his js

Could you not observe that capta are for a start using the exact same opening image as he is? Without you even noticing that glaring ripoff I doubt your commentary carries any weight. Drink your first cup of empathy and put on a solutions cap if you want any shot at growing. :-)

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

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Post by dusing »

aussieoioi wrote: post #282
dusing wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the same thing, they are pretty different. http://www.capta360.com/ is not even close. Maybe he's saying they use his js

Could you not observe that capta are for a start using the exact same opening image as he is? Without you even noticing that glaring ripoff I doubt your commentary carries any weight. Drink your first cup of empathy and put on a solutions cap if you want any shot at growing. :-)

Don't be a cunt.

OP was mad people were stealing his websites design, not his photography, for all we know they both sourced it from the same image warehouse.

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Post by stch2 »

lotsofcows wrote: post #279
stch2 wrote: post #256

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Just because it's possible to steal something, you/society should allow it to happen? Did I misinterpret what you said, or is this what you're saying?

Err, no. He used the word copyright. Somehow you translated that into stealing. You did, definitely, misinterpret what was said. You can spend your life arguing over who copied whom and by how much - or you can accept the flattery, get on and do the next thing.

What if I don't want to be "flattered"? I don't really see anything flattering about someone copying one of my ideas when I don't want them to copy it.

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Post by neya »

ricardobeat wrote: post #203
neya wrote: post #190

Hi 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…

What? You are going to - break your CSS by making it dependent on javascript - use inefficient compression, easily reversible, to "obfuscate" javascript - both of these slowing your page loading time That's like the worst of DRM badly emulated in a browser. You do realize that the script which checks the URL can also be modified by the copycat? Minifying CSS+HTML+JS as usual already gets you the most benefits, while…

I'd love to hear your solution to this problem.

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Post by lotsofcows »

stch2 wrote: post #284
lotsofcows wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Err, no. He used the word copyright. Somehow you translated that into stealing. You did, definitely, misinterpret what was said. You can spend your life arguing over who copied whom and by how much - or you can accept the flattery, get on and do the next thing.

What if I don't want to be "flattered"? I don't really see anything flattering about someone copying one of my ideas when I don't want them to copy it.

You seem to be using a different definition to the word "flattery" than any I know. Being copied is inherently flattering whether you want them to copy you or not.

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

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Post by stch2 »

lotsofcows wrote: post #286
stch2 wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if I don't want to be "flattered"? I don't really see anything flattering about someone copying one of my ideas when I don't want them to copy it.

You seem to be using a different definition to the word "flattery" than any I know. Being copied is inherently flattering whether you want them to copy you or not.

Flattery is a two-way act to me, why else did you use the word? You basically said "accept that someone copied you against your wishes and just ignore it".

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Post by lotsofcows »

stch2 wrote: post #287
lotsofcows wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem to be using a different definition to the word "flattery" than any I know. Being copied is inherently flattering whether you want them to copy you or not.

Flattery is a two-way act to me, why else did you use the word? You basically said "accept that someone copied you against your wishes and just ignore it".

I can see your point generally, but in this case, I can't see how being copied is anything other than flattering. It means the idea was good.

Regards your second sentence, that is what I'm saying. A large company that's put lots of resources into something fighting of another company who "stolen" their idea, while tedious, makes some sense. For an individual, I can't see how it's worth the time, stress or money to worry about copyright.

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Post by sherjilozair »

mijustin wrote: post #165
sherjilozair wrote: post #109

Isn't your design inspired from http://www.spotify.com/se/ ?

These two sites looks completely different to me: Spotify: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/dca1e28e-c43e-4c93-84cf... OP: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/846bba48-7b78-4040-9f18...

Yes, the visual assets are different. But, the novelty is in the scrolling effect idea, which is quite the same in both. And I think spotify did it first, although I'm not too sure.
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