Feb 17, 2005
Asshats Part Deux
Why do people feel the need to rip off other website’s stylesheets, contact forms, layouts, icons….
Take a look at this: http://www.livingproof.us. Have a close look at the navigation, contact form, comments layout, comments and permalinks icons, etc. Not to mention in this post he takes credit for my work.
Damn, stuff like this frustrates the hell outta me…
(I couldn’t find an email address on his site, and the contact form didn’t work because of the PHP error checking I had built in, so if anyone could find me an email address for this guy so I could contact him directly, I’d appreciate it.)
Update: The offending site has been taken down, and I’ve received an email apology from the owner. I guess the matter is resolved, but this still bugs me. I wish that people would see that stealing another’s work is still wrong regardless of the intentions. And not only stealing it, but claiming it as your own…
Hey Jeff, I left a comment for your friend there… his blog seems to have vanished! odd that!
Thanks John.
Imagine that! You’d think he had pirated someone else’s work or something…
lol — if you ever need a contact for someone and can’t find it on their site visit http://www.dnsstuff.com and try doing a WHOIS lookup, for personal sites you can generally get the real contact information of someone.
Heh! Yeah.. shame too.. it was a really nice site!!
@Kevin: I was planning on hitting up internic, but I thought that I might have been overlooking the address on the site.
A quick allwhois.com search reveals the site owner to be a Tyler Suggs.
Domain Name: LIVINGPROOF.US
Domain ID: D2353675-US
Sponsoring Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Registrant ID: TUDNEOBHXQ0VU9ZW
Registrant Name: Tyler Suggs
Registrant Organization: Tyler Suggs
Registrant Address1: 104 Wyandot Street
Registrant City: Darlington
Registrant State/Province: South Carolina
Registrant Postal Code: 29532
Registrant Country: United States
Registrant Country Code: US
Registrant Phone Number: +1.8433951958
Registrant Email: TySuggs@msn.com
Registrant Application Purpose: P3
Registrant Nexus Category: C11
Administrative Contact ID: TUDNEOBHXQ0VU9ZW
Administrative Contact Name: Tyler Suggs
Administrative Contact Organization: Tyler Suggs
Administrative Contact Address1: 104 Wyandot Street
Administrative Contact City: Darlington
Administrative Contact State/Province: South Carolina
Administrative Contact Postal Code: 29532
Administrative Contact Country: United States
Administrative Contact Country Code: US
Administrative Contact Phone Number: +1.8433951958
Administrative Contact Email: TySuggs@msn.com
Administrative Contact Application Purpose: P3
Administrative Contact Nexus Category: C11
Billing Contact ID: TUDNEOBHXQ0VU9ZW
Billing Contact Name: Tyler Suggs
Billing Contact Organization: Tyler Suggs
Billing Contact Address1: 104 Wyandot Street
Billing Contact City: Darlington
Billing Contact State/Province: South Carolina
Billing Contact Postal Code: 29532
Billing Contact Country: United States
Billing Contact Country Code: US
Billing Contact Phone Number: +1.8433951958
Billing Contact Email: TySuggs@msn.com
Billing Contact Application Purpose: P3
Billing Contact Nexus Category: C11
Technical Contact ID: TUDNEOBHXQ0VU9ZW
Technical Contact Name: Tyler Suggs
Technical Contact Organization: Tyler Suggs
Technical Contact Address1: 104 Wyandot Street
Technical Contact City: Darlington
Technical Contact State/Province: South Carolina
Technical Contact Postal Code: 29532
Technical Contact Country: United States
Technical Contact Country Code: US
Technical Contact Phone Number: +1.8433951958
Technical Contact Email: TySuggs@msn.com
Technical Contact Application Purpose: P3
Technical Contact Nexus Category: C11
Name Server: NS2.DOMAINMONGER.COM
Name Server: NS1.DOMAINMONGER.COM
Created by Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Last Updated by Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Domain Registration Date: Mon May 13 02:03:09 GMT 2002
Domain Expiration Date: Fri May 12 23:59:59 GMT 2006
Domain Last Updated Date: Fri Jan 14 06:30:10 GMT 2005
>>>> Whois database was last updated on: Thu Feb 17 22:58:29 GMT 2005
Thanks Dale.
This issue has actually since been resolved. I’ll post an update when I get home from work.
I actually had someone email me with questions about Textpattern and a link to their website. When I got there, I found he had ripped my whole site, minus the images. Even my favicon/professional logo hadn’t been changed, and he was syndicating my articles! I know he had every intention of changing everything, but I still had to send him a stern email explaining just how far in the wrong he was. Luckily, he was co-operative and took everthing down. Still, what are people thinking?
My situation was somewhat the same Jared. I’m really not sure what these people are thinking. I mean, I really don’t care if they learn/dissect my code, but directly ripping off layouts and css files? That’s a little too much.
I was also lucky that this chap was quick to remove the material as well.
…the winter kept me very busy but were somewhat uneventful. The former design for this site was ripped on a couple of occasions. SXSW…