#humblebrag
Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
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Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.
That's not the real reason. There's no shame here in copying even if it's a total ripoff. We copy assignments,lab reports,project work , designs , everything. We get the job done. Originality ? Who gives a shit.
Everyone that has intellectual honesty and wants to feel pride of himself.
You are just saying that intellectual property worths zero. I wonder if somebody wants to travel somewhere and to make it more easy to accomplish, he steals your car. "Who gives a shit", "he got the job done", he is on his way! You worked your ass off to buy it but that's not important.
If everybody would be behaving like this what world would we get? Soon there would be nobody to copy and all the world would be like Asia.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#53I wouldn't be very happy if I hired a designer based partly on his website and then found out that he copied the design. Just sayin'.
Swap "Programmer" for "Designer". IP issues aside, their code/design solves the problem you paid them for.
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#54My favourite part is the people who imitated the facial expression. Like they saw the site and thought, "Nothing says good web designer like mouth scrunched off to the side"
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#55Great to read this. I admit, I pretty much copied you too: http://www.zubairquraishi.com/ :)
Since you only copied the navigation menu and you don't claim to be a designer, I think you fall under the category of inspired rather than copy cat :)
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#56the multiplication of mediocrity miracle
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#57A while back I got really annoyed when two of my competitors copied the buttons, pricing table and the content of two of my websites. This guy is handling it well. I understand getting some inspiration, but copying the whole thing is just too much. They are "designers".
I found one especially ironic, where the guy has the nerve to call himself a "Creative Visionary"... He must be capable of some impressive doublethink if he's not just outright lying to his clients.
I'm with you. I'm sure his results are the size of his creative vision.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#58What I find amusing is the fact that quite a few people didn't even bother to change the designer blurb, which to me suggests they know absolutely f all about design and hints at why they find it necessary to copy in the first place.
Having worked with and competed against some such folks, I can guarantee you that they are not fighting for the same business as you. Their clients are usually small businesses who have no idea how the internet works, or clueless 'startup' guys who had an idea once and zero clue how to implement it.
So yeah, the people they sell their services to don't care about any of the stuff you and I would lose sleep over.
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#59I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians
Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills.
The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites.
Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything is a remix. Everything we do is based on something we have seen somewhere, how else could we do it ? Hardly anything is original, creativity is just the process of knowing how to mix things in a creative way to create something seemingly new.
> Everything is a remix. Yeah, not really. There are traces from previous works and influences in anything, but this is not it. This is not the Beatles being influenced from Buddy Holy, Elvis, Little Richard, and co in their early records. This is like the Monkeys. Or the 20th cookie cutter R&B outfit. And of course the Beatles went and did stuff that nobody else has done at the time with Revolver and Stg Peppers et…
Musically I'd say it's like sampling a classic hit and getting rich off someone else's hook.