How to properly plagiarize a website • Hacker News Board

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by Bill_Dimm » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #9

I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.

I had a similar experience. When they copied our website they even copied the corporate logo at the bottom of the page, which was linked back to our corporate website. I was looking at the referrer logs for the corporate site and saw click-throughs from some site I had never heard of.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by dasil003 » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

This is nothing. Our 100k line vod web app was ripped off wholesale, with a new backend built from scratch, and repurposed to show pirate content. This was some serious engineering chops and time investment that went into a ripping off a site with hundreds upon hundreds of templates and thousands of lines of js and ajax interacting with an unknown backend that had to be reverse-engineered. We discovered it because they forgot to change the Google Analytics code (which they were polite enough to fix once we brought it to their attention via their facebook page) so we saw this huge traffic content ramp up from Georgia. There is no way to view it as anything but flattering.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by gearoidoc » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

I remember Davor Suker!

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by lighthazard » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

Ygor wrote: post #8

The best part is that the plagiarized site is a nominee for a css design prize? Infinum is one of the top developers here in Croatia. Nice to see them responding well to this.

Responding well to them? Their design is a standard template - slider below a menu, 3 columns below that, brands/testimonials below that, large footer. The only similarities I really see are the structure of the templates, and both look like they're from bootstrap, so I'm not sure what the stealing is complaining about.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by johndbritton » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

> You should probably link your client logotypes to their respective websites. If they don't have website at least to Wikipedia or something.

In cases like this, I'd recommend linking to a case-study or other type of portfolio page about the client. I'd rather not send potential customers to another site where they might not come back.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by wwwarhawk » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

This article smells like self importance.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by kamakazizuru » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

am I the only one who doesnt find the sites that similar after all? Or to put it another way - neither of them seem particularly unique (fixed header, slider on top, broad sections and large footer) compared to many marketing sites these days?

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by DanBC » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

This (now dead) website was fun. (http://pirated-sites.com/)

Perhaps there's a niche for a replacement?

EDIT: there appears to be a Flikr stream to replace it. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratedsites/)

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by mmuro » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

scottrogers86 wrote: post #14

It looks like they both have taken from twitter bootstrap. Both look like very uninspired marketing sites. Infinum, get over yourselves.

This. Kintek was clearly inspired by what Infinum did, especially on some of the graphical elements.

But they both appear, on a code level, to be Twitter Bootstrap. Infinum definitely needs to get over themselves.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by ssharp » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

scottrogers86 wrote: post #14

It looks like they both have taken from twitter bootstrap. Both look like very uninspired marketing sites. Infinum, get over yourselves.

Bootstrap provides a slim set of tools for constructing a website. The power comes in it's components, mobile-readiness, and extensibility. Going from default Bootstrap to either of these two sites would still take a lot of design work. You can also see the linked article's author talking about specific design decisions they made that aren't made by default Bootstrap.

I think a more accurate critique would be to look at some of the templates on Wrap Bootstrap. A lot of them do similar things to both of these websites.