Preserved Topic: Stolen design.

We were looking through our pages of visitors to our site and caught this link that has never been seen before. Went to it and behold...our design in which we haven't sold to this person at all. As you can also see at the bottom he forgot to change the copyright link...he changed the name but, look at the address to the link when you touch it and it reads out at the bar...it's to geda-online.com. And you can see he/her just erased snapshot off of it also.

Here is our design: http://geda-online.com/camera/

Here is his/her ripped: http://uyc.clanpages.com/

I will e-mail this person and give him a chance to expalin and take it down.

Allgood

But, but, he said he made that with Notepad and PS6.0?!?!?
You sure you didn't steal that from him Allgood?

That's an old one isn't it? I remember seeing that deign at geda when I first came here.

Sic 'im...

I did a who/is search for the guy's name and #, but it's not a top level domain, so it's not searchable. bummer.

Maybe from now on, you could have a log-in to see designs, or leave out certain elements or have a "sample" watermark running all across the image.......make them do some work if they're going to rip you.

I could ferret out a spam bot for ya, we can send this guy 10,000 e-mails a day...

good luck.

We have changed it up that we don't display it as we use to...we make screenshots and they will have to look at that from now own. Man...some people just want to lie about how they make things don't they. We will give him a chance and see if he takes it down frst. If not then let the e-mail bombardment begin...hahahahahah

Registrant:
Oarsman Corporation (CLANPAGES-DOM)
204 S Parker
Bryan, TX 77803
US

Domain Name: clanpages.com

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Davis, Andrew (AD3500) adavis@OARSMAN.COM
Oarsman Corporation
204 S Parker
Bryan, TX 77803
(409)823-2877 (FAX) (409)823-1994

Record last updated on 15-Nov-2000.
Record expires on 11-Jun-2001.
Record created on 11-Jun-1999.
Database last updated on 6-Mar-2001 06:19:24 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.CLANPAGES.COM 208.180.147.20
NS2.CLANPAGES.COM 208.180.147.21
BACKUP.OARNET.COM 208.180.147.40

Thanks Sash and everyone for the info. Also, how do you find out who is using bandwidth from your site? I forgot how you look it up...if anyone can tell me again I will be thankful.

[This message has been edited by Allgood (edited 03-06-2001).]

Allgood, you can count me in when it comes to harassing this guy...it sucks that he stole it!

You want me to Guido over there to "persuade" him to stop using it? Guido hasn't had a chance to break anyones knees lately....

:-)

Count me in, too. I'm all for learning from someone's design, but not stealing it outright.

Pat Richard
Web weenie
http://www.gurusnetwork.com
ICQ 23113317

I wonder why he linked to your web site.
Copyright © Ultimate Website Creation (U.Y.C) 2000. is linked to you website.

It was a mistake he forgot to take away. That's what got him caught...cause when someone click it it registers on who visited our site. Then we went there and saw it.

He left the link because he doesn't know how to use Notepad to rip properly.

I'll send e-mail later today.

i can't seriously imagine that it matters whether or not he's stolen your work.

which isn't to say that i agree with the action--i of course do not.

but...umm...seriously...is he stealing your clients?

The thing that totally blows me away is his site is FOR WEB DESIGN. I know people rip sites all the time for their own use, but to claim he made it and can do the same for customers is ridiculous. What a queerbo. At least you are being nice about it Allgood. I think it would be even better to ask him to make a website for you and see what he comes up with. That would be funny.


These eyes have walls.

if you look at the source, youll find a meta tag with generator="Microsoft Frontpage 3.0"

woohoo! go notepad!

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

I vill deal vith zees man vith much schnell.

twitch^, Its not the fact that he could be stealing potential clients, its the fact that Allgood worked hard on a design he could have sold and someone came to his website, right mouse clicked on all the images, reassembled it and claims it as his own. His hard work went out the window. No matter how you look at it, its stealing.

Allgood, why don't you just admit to what really happened. You've been stealing designs for years now, it just finally caught up with you and you couldnt take the guilt of all of us assuming you were a great designer so you decided to rat on yourself. Shame on you!



I'll said a rather polite email after lunch perhaps.

my God klaus, my God.

Ok Jestah...you caught me. I feel so ashame.


Hey, what's up with that picture of klaus?

Don't worry about it Allgood. The imporant thing is your repenting for your lack of creativity and not to mention your nasty habit of right mouse clicking on other peoples hard work.

Funny, I saw a porn that started out with a man dressed up similar to klaus. Any relations?

I hev many rubber booten to verschticken in der arses of de people who are shtealin ein design.

Well the first polite email has gone out. Lets see what happens with this.

-mage-

Thanks all...we are sending him mail also to see if we can get this resolved in a nice way. Again thanks everyone.

Allgood & Maa

Yah, I also sent of a semi-polite email, detailing my displeasure. I also made a point of CC:ing the good folks at clanpages.com, Andrew Davis amongst them, seemed like a good idea. They'll probably pull his account ASAP, he's pretty much violating their agreement several ways, first by using stolen work, and second, it ain't a clan page! SysAdmins are sometimes abrasive, but generally on our side in cases like this. Let's see what we see, cool?

Your pal, -doc-

I just added my voice to the effort. C*****ning thieves!

::sigh::

They took down the site before I had the chance to reply.

Well it disappeared...from the URL above, at least. Small asylum victory :-)

Damn, that was fast. I was finally getting around to sending my e-mail and : oof::!

And there was much rejoicing....

Mwhahahahaha!

We have the P O W E R ! Hah! Take that!

Is it in poor taste to send e-mails laughing at them for having to take down there design? We can all get out the ol' digital cameras and take pictures of us pointing and laughing...

Nah, we don't need to hear from them. Apologies and contrition would be nice, but this is what success looks like. It's a shame that we need to be so "ever vigilant" like this, but such is the way of the world. At least we have the community to pull it off when we need to!

<cue music /> "We have the POW-er... BAM! bam, bam, bam, BAM, BAM!"

Your pal, -doc-

He He He...that sounds like a line of this really old cartoon that I used to watch when I was like 6 called The Centurions.

haven't seen hide nor hair of it since it went off air.




Pretty...What do we blow up first? - Unknown

Hey...thanks all for your great help. Without my brothers and sisters in graphic helping I know that this couldn't get done. If he or she would have ask us we maybe would have let them use it but, just copy it and take it is a different story. Again thanks for all the help.

Allgood & Maa

And what's the lesson here, class?

That's right, when you steal a design and/or graphics, NEVER link to the page that you stole them from.

lol

*stifles a laugh*

Another thing to remember when stealing a site, if you say you used notepad on it, make sure that you remove the frontpage meta tags.

Spam is yummy
~babamba

ahh.. i miss the fun..been awa fer a few days..
didn't have the chance to view the impostor's site..
huhhh... Bad amateur Thief !!!

i hope everything's fine already Allgood..

cherrioo..

:: Ahh, well, sanity is always questionable :: I'm a normal person, I just be having crazy thoughts ::

Dammit!! I missed it !!!Wait for me next time will ya?

Yeah, doggone it, I was home early from work but it's alredy down Oh well, I'll get pout at the next ripper.