it's quite clear it's just a template that's been bought or used by a different person - i mean, all that editting would be too hard without the layers and stuff i think
Glad to see you got that resolved James. I have never had a site ripped before but I would be pretty mad if it ever happen. That's why you always design crappy looking websites so people don't steal them
My guess is that my formal email to them gave a little scare and the owner decided to load one of his previous websites.
I had also written a formal complaint to their server provider (who is also one of my providers - hence writing to your own abuse dep.) But them taking 3 hours to respond, they were too late to see the ridicule going on, they only got to it after the website was replaced.
I quote the abuse department - "There are no likenesses what-so-ever therefore no copyright infringement." Never occured to them that they might have replaced it by now. I wonder what would have happened if I had just contacted the abuse department, not the owners themselves.
I suspect their invision board is also "nulled". I'm waiting on confirmation of this from Invision Power Services.
Sadly this happens all the time, an e-com site I made from ground up was stolen but the guy forgot to change the web name I used all over the code, they changed the logo but left the alt and title descriptions.
I emailed their host and got it removed after second email threatening legal action against them.
There is another stolen copy out there, change colours and logo but all links return back to my site (my old site) andhadn't been touched for awhile (they just downloaded all the html files, even though it was a database driven site), I didn't worry about it, figured this was more links to me
timjpriebe posted this at 13:48 — 6th February 2006.
Do you happen to have a screenshot of the website when it looked like yours? If so, you could always send them that. And I would be interested in seeing it as well.
To give you an idea, it was exactly the same index page, but with green instead of blue, and in Spanish language, not English. Apart from those two, identical.
In the beginning, it was so identical that we kept getting linked from that domain..
It happened to me 2 weeks ago within one week of me setting up my site some guy copied and pasted it and put it on a similar web address to mine - I was infuriated. He then started posting in Forums 'what do you think of my new idea' I couldnt believe it. Then to make matters worse he emailed me to apologise but said it was because he admired me and did not plan to change it! Anyway i am not going to post his url because I dont want the looser to get anymore attention than he deserves.
When you spend hours finding content, design, and imagination - someone who just comes along and copies that is the lowest of the low
Contact whoever is hosting the other guy's site. Let them know.
I checked out your site, like the idea, very different. (actual look of the site could use some work though).
I'd get rid of the picture of you holding up the certificates you mail out to people, will just make it easier for him to copy those as well.
-Greg
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demonhale posted this at 12:54 — 5th February 2006.
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did you use any kind of template? if yes, then it does happen... is it flattering? LOL!
James posted this at 12:58 — 5th February 2006.
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It's a unique design, paid for.
Noticed it going through website stats, the idiot didn't realize he had left links.
It happened a few times before, you lose the flatter feel after the second time.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 12:59 — 5th February 2006.
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it's quite clear it's just a template that's been bought or used by a different person - i mean, all that editting would be too hard without the layers and stuff i think
Stolen all the content though lol
James posted this at 13:18 — 5th February 2006.
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Daveyboy,
It's not just another template.
It's a custom unique design, by Phyora.com
DaveyBoy posted this at 13:22 — 5th February 2006.
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you sure they didn't just give you a template or something?
If not, i'm sorry - it just looks very generic to me is all.
James posted this at 13:26 — 5th February 2006.
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I stated, it's a custom, unique design by Phyora.com
No need to repeat your question.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 13:33 — 5th February 2006.
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ok i'll leave you alone
bad luck with being ripped, they couldn't have chosen a nicer guy to do it to!
demonhale posted this at 14:58 — 5th February 2006.
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those people make me angry, at least the content should be changed as well as the images... They just translated the whole site... Dang!
James posted this at 16:23 — 5th February 2006.
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My contacts to them resulted in them replacing their site.
demonhale posted this at 16:24 — 5th February 2006.
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care to give some details?
teammatt3 posted this at 16:29 — 5th February 2006.
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Glad to see you got that resolved James. I have never had a site ripped before but I would be pretty mad if it ever happen. That's why you always design crappy looking websites so people don't steal them
James posted this at 16:47 — 5th February 2006.
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Thanks.
My guess is that my formal email to them gave a little scare and the owner decided to load one of his previous websites.
I had also written a formal complaint to their server provider (who is also one of my providers - hence writing to your own abuse dep.) But them taking 3 hours to respond, they were too late to see the ridicule going on, they only got to it after the website was replaced.
I quote the abuse department - "There are no likenesses what-so-ever therefore no copyright infringement." Never occured to them that they might have replaced it by now. I wonder what would have happened if I had just contacted the abuse department, not the owners themselves.
I suspect their invision board is also "nulled". I'm waiting on confirmation of this from Invision Power Services.
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Busy posted this at 21:40 — 5th February 2006.
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Sadly this happens all the time, an e-com site I made from ground up was stolen but the guy forgot to change the web name I used all over the code, they changed the logo but left the alt and title descriptions.
I emailed their host and got it removed after second email threatening legal action against them.
There is another stolen copy out there, change colours and logo but all links return back to my site (my old site) andhadn't been touched for awhile (they just downloaded all the html files, even though it was a database driven site), I didn't worry about it, figured this was more links to me
timjpriebe posted this at 13:48 — 6th February 2006.
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Do you happen to have a screenshot of the website when it looked like yours? If so, you could always send them that. And I would be interested in seeing it as well.
Tim
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robfenn posted this at 17:43 — 6th February 2006.
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You could use the Waybackmachine to look at cached versions...?
Greg K posted this at 17:52 — 6th February 2006.
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It is only as current as last march.
Were you searching using google? bring it up on the search results and hit the link for cached at the end of their listing.
Well I take that back, I just tried it, and it looks like the cached one was from before they put yours up.
-Greg
James posted this at 19:13 — 6th February 2006.
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Yes cached was, before.
To give you an idea, it was exactly the same index page, but with green instead of blue, and in Spanish language, not English. Apart from those two, identical.
In the beginning, it was so identical that we kept getting linked from that domain..
Always use your screenshot utility, I didn't.
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Roo posted this at 19:34 — 6th February 2006.
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I've had this happen several time. I don't even get smart thiefs..every time they have left my hit counter, meta tags, and other things.
Frenchiexno1 posted this at 19:00 — 7th February 2006.
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It happened to me 2 weeks ago within one week of me setting up my site some guy copied and pasted it and put it on a similar web address to mine - I was infuriated. He then started posting in Forums 'what do you think of my new idea' I couldnt believe it. Then to make matters worse he emailed me to apologise but said it was because he admired me and did not plan to change it! Anyway i am not going to post his url because I dont want the looser to get anymore attention than he deserves.
When you spend hours finding content, design, and imagination - someone who just comes along and copies that is the lowest of the low
Greg K posted this at 00:39 — 8th February 2006.
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Contact whoever is hosting the other guy's site. Let them know.
I checked out your site, like the idea, very different. (actual look of the site could use some work though).
I'd get rid of the picture of you holding up the certificates you mail out to people, will just make it easier for him to copy those as well.
-Greg
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