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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 6, 2008 18:47:45 GMT
One thing that is a hot topic these days in this heavily digital world is intellectual property. What is yours and what isn't? Has anyone ever stolen your intellectual property from your website weather that be graphics, content, or something else? What did you do? A few years ago on a website that I ran for a Halo 2 group some other website not only stole the graphics we made for our news posts and forum boards, but they copied every gaming news story word for word. Once I contacted them they acted all tough like they weren't going to take it down until I had a lawyer friend draft up a letter. They had everything down within hours after that  |
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Post by .Jordan on Nov 6, 2008 20:33:25 GMT
personally ive not had anything stolen, but a friend of mine has, he has a whole database of web templates stolen and then was given away by the website that stole them, he lost alot of business because people though he was the one that stole them, and then making money of it.
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 6, 2008 22:17:48 GMT
That sucks man.
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Post by TheDiaryRoom on Nov 7, 2008 1:05:07 GMT
Back when I ran a Big Brother fansite, another site frequently stole my articles. I couldn't get the owner's hosts to take action, but I did get his podcast pulled from iTunes a fair few times. And trolled his comments.  |
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Post by Saknika on Nov 7, 2008 1:38:27 GMT
Never had anything stolen, but if I did I'd press charges if they didn't do anything. Copyright law states that the minute you create something, the copyright is yours whether you registered it or not. Registering it just makes it 100% prosecutable in a court of law and you get damages as well as all the other lovely payoffs.
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Post by Wrighty on Nov 7, 2008 1:55:59 GMT
Not yet, but I fear someone might be trying to!  |
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Post by Avtar on Nov 7, 2008 16:13:46 GMT
Copied the whole skin of my forum actually. 
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 7, 2008 20:06:18 GMT
Copied the whole skin of my forum actually. And they thought you wouldn't notice? |
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Post by Avtar on Nov 8, 2008 7:52:42 GMT
Copied the whole skin of my forum actually. And they thought you wouldn't notice?
It was a dead forum with hardly any activity, so I didn't really bother with it. |
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Post by danielazarc on Nov 8, 2008 13:29:02 GMT
I haven't had anything stolen from mine, or at least not that I know of. I guess it really does suck that much. >.>;'
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Post by Avtar on Nov 8, 2008 13:47:43 GMT
I haven't had anything stolen from mine, or at least not that I know of. I guess it really does suck that much. >.>;' |
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Post by TROWLIN' on Nov 8, 2008 18:26:46 GMT
ive had on/off icons stolen
but thats about all i know of lmao
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Post by Saknika on Nov 9, 2008 2:01:57 GMT
I haven't had anything stolen from mine, or at least not that I know of. I guess it really does suck that much. >.>;' *goes to remove certain images from her site* >.> LOL, I'm just kidding. But don't put yourself down, you have a lovely site that happens to be one of the lucky enough ones not to be stolen from. :3 |
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Post by Wrighty on Nov 9, 2008 17:23:18 GMT
Not yet, but I fear someone might be trying to! I was right... The idiot has ripped the whole of wImg's homepage... what idiot didn't think I'd notice? Seriously, how stupid? I sent the person a warning on PBS!  |
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 10, 2008 1:24:58 GMT
Not yet, but I fear someone might be trying to! I was right... The idiot has ripped the whole of wImg's homepage... what idiot didn't think I'd notice? Seriously, how stupid? I sent the person a warning on PBS! Let us know how it goes. Good luck getting it taken down. |
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Post by Wrighty on Nov 10, 2008 1:56:08 GMT
If he doesn't I know where he lives. It'll be interesting for him to have a formal letter appear from me! |
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Post by Pritchard [Epic][Girly Boy] on Nov 16, 2008 4:51:24 GMT
I used to do a fair bit of theme building for Drupal and often would find my themes up on Theme garden with all the files modified. Generally ripping all my credit out of them, and things of that matter.
Never pursued it. I should, but it's not worth it.
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 16, 2008 16:49:52 GMT
I used to do a fair bit of theme building for Drupal and often would find my themes up on Theme garden with all the files modified. Generally ripping all my credit out of them, and things of that matter.
Never pursued it. I should, but it's not worth it. Yea there's a guy I know that makes e107 themes and I found just about all of his on another website with little things here and there changed. He had the same mindset as you. Too much work for nothing. |
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Post by Llanilek on Feb 9, 2009 11:15:11 GMT
ahhh the glory of rippers... you can't beat them... well not legally anyway... down a back alley you may get away with it
i've had numerous amounts of sites try to rip my sites... also while i was working on another forum they constantly tried to rip the skin. Well we wasn't having it so myself and the head coder divised a plan we had encrypted javascript within the headers of the site that passed information onto a php script if the host wasn't the one of the forum... so someone ripped the code and bingo we had the url straight away to enable us to investigate... also it logged it on our side of things so we had evidence backing up our claims... loved every minute of watching those rippers squirm because they have nothing to say back to us ha ha >_> ... <_< ...
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Post by navb01 on Apr 8, 2009 4:12:28 GMT
I actually was messing around and created a design forum that only had like 80 or 90 members and one of the global moderators copied everything my entire skin and put it on his forum which started to boom faster then mine I made him take it off and close the forum and just gave up on running my own |
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