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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...

Why do that site take so long to load?

Everybody that reads hackernews is loading it at the same time?

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

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I 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…

This is true. But some people ignore the e-mails and calls, or lie, or both—at which point shame is an excellent strategy. My family runs a grant writing consulting firm, and we've had people rip us off too—now, when they rip us off, we call them out too: http://blog.seliger.com/2009/07/03/fake-grant-writers-spamme...

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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…

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

Adding this to your JS could be fun...

if(document.location.hostname !== 'ideaware.co') {alert('Do not trust these thieves. They stole this design from ideaware.co');}

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

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I 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…

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 not that generous (trust me: if you steal an image from Getty Images, they don't let you get away with paying a "small fee"). Neither should OP.

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

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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?

Do people need to be told this? If copyright still made sense, why would anyone bother with DRM?

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

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

I thought the same...

http://www.spotify.com/uk/

It's a really nice scrolling concept, and I've seen quite a few sites using it. I think OP is referring to very specific elements of their design.

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