Getting sick of pirates!

Being a web designer myself, I would assume that they are idiots and know just enough to rip it off you, I'd wait for them to take the bait and then forward the front page to 2 girls 1 cup.

Promptly followed by a stern email from a law friend :)
 
How about you use JS to make a new div which pops up over the whole site selling your services? If you do that in a way thats hard to detect how its going on then the pirates will have no choice but to give in.
 
It's so blatant I can't believe they thought they'd get away with it - shocking ...

Loving your use of jQuery on the Pro Line site though - that drop-down on the Products link is very nice indeed ... the kind of eye-candy that has my boss wetting himself
 
What I find really odd is that you've designed some pretty stunning sites, and yet your blog/homepage is awful.

High contrasting colours which tire the eye, strange font size differentiation, and it doesn't work in a small browser window.
 
What I find really odd is that you've designed some pretty stunning sites, and yet your blog/homepage is awful.

High contrasting colours which tire the eye, strange font size differentiation, and it doesn't work in a small browser window.
I remember having those exact thoughts when I've seen that site in the past, although I can't talk, my own site is appauling but I never get round to finishing my new one.

OT: Zed and the Hub are two of my favourite bars, few mins walk from my flat, The Box and The Arc are good places too.
 
how did you know they copied your site? :confused:

(not a sarcy post I really bit confused as to how trawling through net you managed to find a site that is yours)

Or you just stumble upon it :)?
 
how did you know they copied your site? :confused:

(not a sarcy post I really bit confused as to how trawling through net you managed to find a site that is yours)

Or you just stumble upon it :)?

From the original post:

In fact the Coffe site left a link to the original stats javascript on our server

They copied it in so much detail, they left a bit of code pointing to their own server - which of course when looking through stats, they'll see this code being loaded with a different referrer than it should be.
 

I checked you out last month (it's good for my lot to keep tabs on the local competition!) We were pretty impressed with your stuff though, specially the iPhone do-hickey whatsit.

I guess we'll have to start being very careful with our code too.
 
heh, we do the same, but to be honest there's so much work around at the moment there's more than enough to share :)

Where do you work if you don't mind me asking?
 
*sigh* they keep on coming....

Ours

Rip

And then that company has also done another rip of our Kobe site here....although it looks like they cant get it working properly lol

Turkish company again - what is it about the Turks I wonder?
 
Love the Kobe site, very very nice. Would you ever use the main premise (but change the design yourself) for another customer or start completely from scratch out of principle to the original customer?
Turkish company again - what is it about the Turks I wonder?
It's most likely from the same company!
 
*sigh* they keep on coming....

Ours

Rip

And then that company has also done another rip of our Kobe site here....although it looks like they cant get it working properly lol

Turkish company again - what is it about the Turks I wonder?

Your sites copyrighted, so if you can prove yours is the original, sue them for copyright infringement?

What about talking to a private detective or whoever deals with this to investigate this, and knows all the laws etc regarding plagurism?(sorry for my spelling if wrong)
 
Your sites copyrighted, so if you can prove yours is the original, sue them for copyright infringement?

What about talking to a private detective or whoever deals with this to investigate this, and knows all the laws etc regarding plagurism?(sorry for my spelling if wrong)

I think a DMCA form to their webhost is standard procedure for this sort of thing. If they are in Turkey it would probably be more hassle than it's worth to do anything more.
 
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