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Guy ripped our site - [justahost.co.uk]
https://awbs.justahost.net/

Then goes to webhostingtalk.com and tries to say we stole his! We have copyright protection that we bought through godaddy after we built the site but the question is, what do we do? How do we approach this? I mean he is trying to DEGRADE us!?

Think its so screwd up how someone can even go to my datacenter and say I am in violation lol. Wtf ...anyone have any ideas?

Funniest part is he was even on webhostingtalk a while back buying templates.. /sigh
 
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Yeah but the worst thing is it is possible it may give me a bad reputation for something we haven't done which is the worst part of it.
 
ecsportal said:
Yeah but the worst thing is it is possible it may give me a bad reputation for something we haven't done which is the worst part of it.
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If you didn't do it then why would you be getting a bad rep? Don't worry about the possibility of getting a bad rep, as long as you didn't do something to deserve it then you'll most likely be fine.

And maybe he just bought the template from somebody? Is that template 100% custom made? You should talk to the designer as well about it.
 
Actually the style is custom built but the photos are just stock. Friend of mine actually did the logos.... Oh well Staminus data center didn't step into it which is good but the guy is even calling them. Just psycho, also the issue is I am in the US and he is in the UK. I doubt I can even persue him.
 
if it really is copyright you can sue them. rofl but seriously look at the prices:

Disk Space 250Mb 1 month £9.95 That is $20 per month for 250Mb thats a rip off
 
computerhelpworld said:
www.galaxy-solutions.net and www.softlayer.com aren't EXACTLY the same. I mean he could argue that it's not in violation of any thing.

But yea..I know what you mean avail.

People should just get custom designs..its not that expensive if you know a good designer.
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that is just too close for comfort if it were my design. I mean come on.....the icons are exactly the same, header and footer are 99.9% the same.

for someone who has been here that long and with that many posts, he really should know better
 
Thats too close, theres taking INSPERATION from others designs, lots of designers do that, then theres that:p
thats "heavily inspired" ;) if you know what i mean.
 
AvailNetworks said:
that is just too close for comfort if it were my design. I mean come on.....the icons are exactly the same, header and footer are 99.9% the same.

for someone who has been here that long and with that many posts, he really should know better
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As stated, we had a designer design the template for us, we had no idea it was connected to anyone else, I’m contacting the designer in question (Who was recommended to me by an outstanding member of the FWS community who has allot more posts and respect than I have in these parts) but he appears to not be answering my emails or phone calls.

As stated, we had no idea this design was a rip until yesterday, when it was pointed out to use on WHT, it was more of a shock to us than to you, let me reassure you of that!
 
@ecsportal - maybe it would help to say you have the PSD and show the copyright papers.

If you have proof the guy ripped your site, report it to the mods of WHT, I'm sure they can remove those accusations.
 
Google cache indicates Ryan has had that design since at least April 1 (which is before you joined FWS, WHT and HHO)

This is G o o g l e's cache of http://awbs.justahost.net/index.php?aid=pin18998 as retrieved on 1 Apr 2006 14:45:11 GMT.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.
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bleh that doesn't mean anything. Google has it cached for me too. Fact is, we never advertised on boards so we weren't registered. Whether I was here or WHT or HHO has nothing to do with whether I have/was been in the hosting business. We had this design since '05. Search waybackmachine.org and you can see we have been in business longer than since we registered and definitely longer than Ryan who just "acquired" justahost last year as per his posts on WHT.
 
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