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Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by muloka »

Udo wrote: post #53
kamakazizuru wrote: post #27

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?

You're not alone. In fact, at first I thought their sites were standard Wordpress templates. I was kind of surprised they actually built them by hand. They both consist solely of what I would consider standard elements and layouts.

I am pretty certain that the Kintek website is a Wordpress site built using the Roots Starter Theme.

Based on the fact they use:

* Make use of both the Yoast SEO and Gravity Forms plugins, which are well known Wordpress plugins.

* Twitter Bootstrap

* Have an /assets/ folder which most likely rewrites to /wp-content/themes/themename/assets/

* Have a /plugins/ folder which most likely rewrites to /wp-content/plugins/

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by jmharvey »

kamakazizuru wrote: post #27

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?

Styles, like fashion, follow trends. But the similarities on these sites go well beyond just similar trends, especially once you're beyond the main page. The copy on the "Services" page is probably the most damning:

  We provide a wide array of software design and development
  services -- from Mobile applications and Web applications
  to User interface design, Quality assurance and Digital
  Strategy -- we're a trusted partner helping you develop
  your business.
vs

  We provide a wide array of Award Winning design and
  development services -- from Digital Strategy, QA and UX
  Design to iOS, Android, and Facebook Apps, Responsive
  Mobile Enhanced Websites, Ecommerce and Business
  Automation Tools -- we're your trusted partner in Digital.
I don't think anyone honestly believes those sentences were written independently of each other. Look at them in their context on the page, and the plausibility of coincidental design similarity goes even further out the window. This was clearly a copy/paste/edit job.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by kamakazizuru »

mintplant wrote: post #40
kamakazizuru wrote: post #27

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?

- The scrolling animations on the header are exactly the same. - The curved/depressed backgrounds behind the hero image (fairly unique) are the same shape and style. - Page sizing is the same. - Color scheme is the same, with blue swapped out for red. These are just from glancing quickly between the two sites. Combined with the overall similarity, the fact that the scrolling animation is exactly the same is the most…

yes they are similar - but for me theres a much bigger difference between similar / inspired design and flat out plagiarism - which this isnt.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by CodeMage »

I was born 34 years ago in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the 20 years I lived there, I never met anyone who killed a bear with their bare hands, but I've met plenty of people with the same brutish, thuggish humor, who thought that kind of stuff was hilarious.

If there's one thing I would like to say to Tomislav, it's this: I'm proud of our nations' history and cultural heritage -- some shared, some not -- but this kind of negative publicity you're generating is part of the reason why there's a word "balkanized" in English language. I understand you're pissed they copied your hard work and your anger is justified. But please, don't do this.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by kristianc »

Wow, someone's been drinking their own Kool Aid.

I don't see why the plagiarist went to the effort of copying the site. Equally overdesigned, cheap, tacky looking (oh hello jQuery slider) 'designs' are readily available on ThemeForest for $45.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by eli »

Hah, I just finished (?) dealing with a site that literally just scraped our entire Education Industry news site -- all pages -- using some sort of "save for offline" tool and then did a find/replace to change the name and redrew the logos in what might have been MS Paint.

They were shopping the site to ad networks. Maybe they thought they could out-SEO us and then monetize the traffic? Or it was some sort of click fraud long-con? The WHOIS was in Virginia, but the IP that did the scraping was in China.

Totally weird, but I took it as a compliment. Our content was worth stealing, after all.

They also missed a single external file -- a call to our ad server -- when they scraped the site. So I "hacked" it by serving them a special JS file to add funny autoplaying youtube videos to the page and switch all the fonts to Comic Sans. (Didn't want to nuke the whole site while waiting for the hosting company to investigate my DMCA complaint.)

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by jere »

tokenadult wrote: post #65

When I was in high school, in an English class unit on journalism, I learned how the United Press caught a competing news organization (Hearst, as I recall) faking stories about the eastern front in World War I. The United Press reporters inserted details about a Russian government official named Nelotsky in their news stories, and watched the statements about Nelotsky get copied into reports from the competing wire…

Like heyitsnick said, that sounds like trap streets and Esquivalience. The thing I always wondered is if these fictitious items weren't actually hurtful to the reputation of the company creating them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by shelltreader »

Unfortunately, the title is very misleading. I was looking forward to reading about how to "properly" do it.

Website plagiarism is one of the hardest things to prove because the proof can't be design similarity; even though, the website's design is intellectual property and copyrighted. The de facto for website developers has been to include a code in their images and to replace common design elements with company logos (or graphics specific to their organization).

Has the website in question taken graphics and company-specific elements as well? No, they haven't; so, there isn't enough to claim plagiarism. I think both websites are using common layout designs.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by recursive »

bluetidepro wrote: post #12
OliC wrote: post #4

Replacing the title with "Come back! We miss you!" when you leave the tab is cute but it makes finding the article in a sea of tabs difficult.

I completely agree. It's awesome in theory, but I would hate this feature if tons of sites started using it. It could get out of hand very quickly.

I don't know what theory it's awesome under, but I have to disagree with that. I want titles to describe the content of their page.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by dwaltrip »

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #70
gk1 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Are you saying they are arrogant for outing a plagiarizer?

"But after some thought, Darko, our design lead (he's a very nice person) convinced me to give you guys the benefit of the doubt and not send the Croatian emmigration in Australia (known for working as bouncers and construction workers) knocking at your door." Yeah. You tend to lose the moral initiative when you pretend you have the backing of some nefarious street thugs. PS: Thanks for stereotyping Croatians, asshol…

It was a joke, relax.
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