Interesting Ripoff
2 years, 10 months ago I’ve been subject to finding rip-offs of my work in my time, but a recent rip of Design Shack worries me a little. Not only has the guy copied my website exactly, he has also set up the archives page to - rather than link to the authors site - provide downloadable, ripped templates of other people’s designs.
This is pretty low as far as I’m concerned, and I’m quite annoyed. I don’t mind if people just rip my site - I just contact them, their hosts and and other service provider to try to get the site taken down. But when they are using a rip of my site to provide copies of other people’s, it’s annoying. To say the least. I’ve contacted Geocities to ask them to close the account, and we’ll see how it progresses.
I’m not posting the URL of the page in question - His site doesn’t need any publicity.
Webdesign, Rip
September 27th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Upon reading this post, I have to admit that I was eagered to visit the site that had the nerve and audacity to ripoff your “design shack”. But great call for not mentioning it because the last thing they need is to be noticed and receive undeserved hits on the site.
September 28th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
I’ve seen that site through a series of links from 36D and I was really apalled by it. I can see how other accidental rips or imitations can be come across (not that I’m agreeing to them) but shamelessly ripping and distributing “templates” of sites, that really makes me angry. I just don’t understand it. I hope he gets shut down for good.
September 29th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Darnit. You should provide me with the URL so I can send some abuse over…
Unlucky though mate. Design Shack is really kicking off isn’t it?