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

Post by anatari » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

Bjartr wrote: post #224

anatari wrote: post #217

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What? You are going to add a lock to your door that is going to - break your door by making it dependent on a key - use a easily reversible locking mechanism - slow the time it takes to enter your home You do realize that any locksmith can open your lock in less than a minute? Closing your door already gives you most of the benefits. Only half kidding, but I get tired of people dismissing clever tricks because it's n…

> Stealing is usually a function of reward/effort. Except that for digital media it's a Smart Cow Problem[1], the effort is only there for the first person who wants to circumvent it, then it becomes trivial for everyone. However, I'd suggest that the reason some on HN react strongly to these suggestions is that they rely upon security through obscurity, which can be dangerous by providing a false sense of security w…

Post by samuellevy » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

honzzz wrote: post #200

mtrimpe wrote: post #120

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I'm generally against all forms of intentional defamation, but I must admit that this option is very tempting... Are there any lawyers here that could weigh in on the legality of this?

And I would be especially interested in this site: http://www.creativegerms.com/about I don't see any similarity at all (except for maybe some basic stuff that can be found on many websites) and including them into that "ripping off" article could be perceived as defamation. Did they just quickly switched to different design?

Post by deadlysyntax » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

Post by deadlysyntax » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 10:17 PM UTC

Post by pvaldes » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #210

robomartin wrote: post #99

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…

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.…