Preserved Topic: Update on thief. (Page 1 of 1)

Here is a letter from the host of the thief. I guess we can hold off now with the letters until we see if they are going to resolve this soon and take off our work.
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Mr. Allgood

The account who stole your layout is on hold. We are talking with the owner, who hired the designer that is the actual layout thief. We are trying to get the designer's demographics so we can report him to law enforcement authorities. This guy is going to get what is coming to him, and the process is not going to be sped along by your friend inundating our help mail with rude, harsh remarks about our business processes. Call off the dogs.

MyNetCentral Team

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Thanks everyone who has helped us out with the mail. We are glad we have new friends here we can depend on to help us when these thieves think they can get away with our work.


Again Thanks,
/Allgood & Maa

Wow, this whole thing is pissing me off. I am so frustrated with mynetcentral, and the stupid assholes that copied the site.

See for yourself. here is what I sent mynetcentral yersterday:

Hi, I am writing you in regards to one of our users. Some friends of mine at www.goldeneye.nu work very hard in producing high quality graphics and web sites that they place on there web site for sale. I know that you are suppose to be dealing with this. But frankly I am very disappointed in the duration of time that it is taking you to solve this problem. I know that they
have contacted you, among many others. Your customer has basically stolen 1 version
of their web sites that they have for sale.

Here is their for sale section: http://www.goldeneye.nu/html_geda/4sale.htm

It is very obvious to me that your customer has blatantly stolen their hard work, and passed it off as if it was there own. Goldeneye use to have full size versions of the web sites that they have for sale. unfortunately, they had to find out the hard way that they should have given small samples.

The link of your customer is here: http://www.mynetcentral.com/dkb/dkb.html

I think it is VERY obvious that they stole all of the content from http://www.goldeneye.nu/html_geda/4sale.htm. Like I said, I am very disappointed in how your business is run. This should have been taken care of the instant that it was discovered. Many people have contacted your
customer, both in a nice manor, and a rude manor. No one has heard from them, at
all.

They may just do it again, but maybe they will get the message. It is very unfortunate that we all work so hard, and senseless people just steal the hard work. I am glad that there is a big enough circle of us to watch out for each other. It seems to always come down to the hosting service taking care of it, the user never does. Please take care of this and do the right thing.

-Timothy R Metzger


I did not realize that a hosting service had feelings to, <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif"> . Here is what they sent me:

The owner of the DKB site didn't know what happened until just recently. He hired someone to do the layout, and the "designer" was the one who stole the Goldeneye layout. The account was put on hold as soon as
someone at Goldeneye reported the copyright infringement to us. "On hold" status means nothing shows up on the user's index page and the user does not have edit rights to anything on their account. This is our
business process. You may critique it if you like, but you are not in a position to change it. We do not appreciate your insulting demeanor as to the way we run our website; we are as disgusted as you are with this layout thief, we took away his account, we are going to delete the account, and we do not deserve this kind of treatment from you regardless of the copyright infringements on your friend's website.

MyNetCentral Team

C'mon, he "hired" someone, and they copied his site, how many people belive that??

Sorry if I caused you any trouble Maa and Allgood.....

[This message has been edited by timothymcnulty (edited 07-06-2000).]

I think they've got a bit too much in the feelings department. I missed your "insulting demeanor" in the e-mail. If they want "this kind of treatment" I'm quite sure people could oblige <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

Chris

hehe, i like this guy better, he adds a little humor....

(i emailed them regarding their response to my previous letter)

Ok, sorry for the harsh response. We understand that it is frustrating but all the extra mail from the Goldeneye people's friends has not helped the process of legally pursuing the thief. It's understandable that the atmosphere surrounding this kind of thing is very tense, and we're sorry that we can't just push the "throw the bitch in jail" button on
the server every time something horrible like this happens. I have done some web design related work myself and I am perrsonally looking forward to the prosecution of the person responsible for the stealing of your friend's layout.

MyNetCentral Support

NEW UPDATE!!!

Mr. Allgood

Thanks. The account is getting deleted as we speak. The owner is supposed to get back to me with the designer's demographics sometime later today for legal purposes. I'll give you the guy's information, which you are free to do with as you please (I would assume this means turn it over to your lawyer).

Thanks,
Josh Clark
MyNetCentral Support

free home page, free email. http://www.mynetcentral.com

Another victory for the asylum......it is all gone. congrats to maa and allgood!

YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I've been watching this tread for a while, and I must say congrats to maa and allgood. I say we invent a 'Throw the bitch in Jail' button, sound fun?




Lepricosa...The Leprosy Ointment. For when your not half the man you used to be.

Thanks alot to each and everyone for your great support <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

/Maa






[This message has been edited by Maa (edited 08-06-2000).]