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Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by kris121 »

you should send a mail to department of abuse to hosting company where they copycat monkey have host their site.

i have experience with a image copy and here is a solution we made ;-

if their is too many people have stole or hotlinking the image from your server then change the image to 'this image is stolen and something lorem ipsum'. change the image to another name and update it on pages where you have used them.

this way you can show on the people site that they hosted something illegal. tough but solid way.

Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by esamek »

jedimike wrote: post #6

Now I'm not one to promote petty revenge (unless it's VERY amusing), but there are a few scripts and images that they're loading from the hellowallet.com servers, and from filostudios.com, who I presume did your design. If someone were to change these files, they could dramatically alter the look and behaviour of themattressboutique.com quite easily...

They did not do our design.

Have no idea who they are.

Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by [deleted] »

jedimike wrote: post #6

Now I'm not one to promote petty revenge (unless it's VERY amusing), but there are a few scripts and images that they're loading from the hellowallet.com servers, and from filostudios.com, who I presume did your design. If someone were to change these files, they could dramatically alter the look and behaviour of themattressboutique.com quite easily...

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Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by esamek »

rtehfm wrote: post #7

I work in the security/abuse department for one of the largest web hosting companies in the world and we see these types of complaints regularly. The best way to go about this would be to email the abuse@ email for the IP which is abuse@pronethosting.net. If you can't get a hold of them that way, contact the colocation company directly. Their website is http://www.cyberverse.com/ . You can find out more about this pr…

Thanks for the info.

We are taking appropriate actions. We have some of the best on our side :-).

Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by esamek »

jordigh wrote: post #4

I hope you alert the authorities about this theft so that you can quickly recover your stolen property. Is your business being impacted in the meantime due to your deprivation of this property? Do you have a backup design you can use until you recover the stolen one?

Unsure if we are impacted, but doubtful.

No need to have a backup design IMO. This is just our marketing site.

Re: Our website design was stolen

#16

Post by ukandy »

esamek wrote: post #12
jedimike wrote: post #6

Now I'm not one to promote petty revenge (unless it's VERY amusing), but there are a few scripts and images that they're loading from the hellowallet.com servers, and from filostudios.com, who I presume did your design. If someone were to change these files, they could dramatically alter the look and behaviour of themattressboutique.com quite easily...

They did not do our design. Have no idea who they are.

I'm sure they will be getting an awkward call from their client very soon..

Re: Our website design was stolen

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Post by tnorthcutt »

esamek wrote: post #15
jordigh wrote: post #4

I hope you alert the authorities about this theft so that you can quickly recover your stolen property. Is your business being impacted in the meantime due to your deprivation of this property? Do you have a backup design you can use until you recover the stolen one?

Unsure if we are impacted, but doubtful. No need to have a backup design IMO. This is just our marketing site.

jordigh is being sarcastic.
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