Talk about being ripped off....
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A client of mine was so nice to show me a french company and their website:
prographis.fr/home/
Try and compare it with mine - do you see some similarity?
www.mintcreation.com
Normally I take it as a compliment, but damn it's annoying when it happens!
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- Nanci Memory
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Hi Thomas!
This post caught my eye... then I realized it was you.
Oh my g... this isn't even complimentary. This is outright theft. The words, the images, they broke all the rules and laws. In the US we would get sued for a lot less. We could even go to jail.
I am so sorry this happened to you. I know how hard you work on all that you do.
Just know that they will get theirs in the end. People who are dishonest in work and play are dishonest in life. And clients as well as audiences are not stupid.
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Thanks for your words Nanci and nice to hear from you again
Some people are just pathetic...
Contacted their host and hope they will take actions.
Thomas
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- Nanci Memory
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You too!
I was just going to write and tell you to do that. I think you should contact every single site or person mentioned on their site, google, paypal, and people, (if they are real).
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- Arifin FinLy
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bad thief!!
how come they could get all the templates file, contents, etc "exactly" the same?
did they hack your server and stole the files and database?
any log in your server?
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Not really sure Arifin..
I am in the process of looking into logfiles, but haven't found any unusual stuff yet..
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- Kat05
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Oh my God!!
This is just unbelievable!
I am really sorry for you and hope that you will find out how they could hijack your site!
Bastards!!!
Kat - Kat05 / QA Lead & Support / Germany
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- LiEs
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- That sucks. I gave him a bad rating at www.mywot.com
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- studio1c
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I had a "web designer" steal some of the content off of my site too. Send them a "cease and desist" letter (sample below), and prove that your site had the content up prior to theirs (
www.archive.org/web/web.php
). Threaten that if the site is not changed, you will take further legal action. What a blatant violation this was!
It has come to our attention that you have made an unauthorized use of our copyrighted work entitled (your website URL) (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. We have reserved all rights in the Work, first published in (date your site was live) as recorded in the Internet Archive [and have registered copyright therein]. Your work (their URL) on the (specific pages of violation) page(s) is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for (their URL) nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, we believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.
We demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to us, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of our rights in the future. If we have not received an affirmative response from you by (date) indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, we shall take further legal action against you including filing a notice of Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement with search engines such as Google and others to have the offending site removed from their search results.
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Thanks both!
Michelle my site is not to be found on the archive - probably because it is a subdomain?
Oh well...
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