Only yesterday I was reading Neville Hobson’s post on ‘No compassion for plagiarists’ where Neville wrote: “Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr.”
A valid point. But what about if a person is in the middle of ripping your blog’s design?
Hmm! Spot the similarities? I’ll take it as a compliment I suppose. I wonder what Matt’s view on it is. It is his design after all. And it’s not the first time someone’s liked his design so much they’ve tried to steal it.
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Matt Brett
*sigh* Worst. Not only did they jack the design, but they totally butchered it. Shit over-lapping all over the place. Man…
I don’t really have much to say about it. It’s one thing to be inspired by something you like. It’s another to steal it, hack it apart and claim it as your own. “Designed by BestGrafika” – now that pissed me off.
BTW, how’d you catch wind of this?
Stephen
Looks like it has my urchin.js link. (Whatever that means?)
I found it in the ‘Content Optimization’ section under ‘Hostnames’ on my Google Analytics page.
It says in Goog Analytics: “If a domain appears on this report that is not one of your domains, the domain in question points to a website that has your urchin.js link (and possibly other content owned by you).”
And here’s BestGrafika’s site. (.ru) domain name is Russian.
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Let’s get him.