Isn't this inspired from http://www.ebay.com/new ?
I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
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#272I've seen a few posts on HN complaining about people copying their sites, but I'm not sure I sympathize. Websites are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, all of which is open text and easily copied. You shouldn't have any illusions that your design and code is copied and reused somewhere else. In this case, the websites that are using the design aren't competitors and aren't taking away business from the original developer. W…
This is more akin to copying someone's math test and not having enough understanding of the English language to avoid copying the "Name: Keith Gabryelski" in the upper right hand corner
Stealing a design/style or color scheme would yield a "boo hoo" from me. Get over it -- pretty things are pretty and people will build on them.
Whole-hog copying code so that you copy the Google Analytics javascript deserves ridicule and if they removed the authorship comments I say "hang em high".
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#273It's even worse that some of these comps not only stole the design but also stole the copy. Shameless.
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#274site certainly worth "learning", but copying completely is just lame
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a life and get used to it. Overall its just a design, you think its great, and at least a few agreed on it and copied it. There is no copyright on web pages. Web pages are there to be seen and thus their source to be copied. By even watching your page its in my cache now. I could copy it and use it. If you where a little bit smarter some .js code might have protected for easy copying, but you didnt do that, who t…
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?
If the GP is advocating that ideas and their expressions shouldn't be 'private' if expressed publicly, then comparing it to stealing is incorrect.
> Just because it's possible to steal something, you/society should allow it to happen?
A closer comparison would be: you heard me tell a story. You don't think society should allow you to tell it to someone else because I 'own' it, and to tell someone else is to 'steal' from me.
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#276While I agree that these other sites have "ripped you off," I don't think you should spend any more time worrying about it or "fighting" them. From a quick glance, these sites appear to be tiny "companies" that probably saw a nice site and decided to copy it rather than think up something great for themselves. They are probably not taking away any measurable business from you via their copies sites, so any time you s…
A fair few of these sites are advertising web design services.
Out of concern for their possible future clients, I think it's best that they're publicly shamed.
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#277Earlier 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…
The OP is a design house. Is this particular design the last drop of creative juice they have? I would think they can certainly evolve their site into another equally interesting design. It's almost like what happens to Mercedes Benz. Companies like Mitsubishi shamelessly copy MBZ designs. They've been doing it for years. MBZ's answer is to continuously innovate. Obsolete you own product.
While they can, it doesn't mean they should.
Mitsubish are selling product, while this is a portfolio design and thus should require less attention while you work on clients.
The solution is not to blame the victims of the theft. Agreed that shaming isn't always the best idea either though.
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#278Your design also has some similarities with the Mercurial Wordpress theme does it not? I'm not sure which one came before, so I can't comment on who imitated who.
Also there are a couple sites on the list that shouldn't be there. They look just as similar to your site as your site looks to the Mercurial theme.
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a life and get used to it. Overall its just a design, you think its great, and at least a few agreed on it and copied it. There is no copyright on web pages. Web pages are there to be seen and thus their source to be copied. By even watching your page its in my cache now. I could copy it and use it. If you where a little bit smarter some .js code might have protected for easy copying, but you didnt do that, who t…
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.
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#280OP 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.
Agreed, the design isn't copied at all imho, parallax and these sort of websites have been around for a 2+ years now.