http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/index.php?s=

OMG haha lol good spotting:agree:

funny rippers so lame;)

Big forum wonder why they riped?

bwahahaha.

administrator@acuraworld.com - E-Mail them and ask them why they riped :P

I kind of like this thread over there:

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=19294

Reading that thread - I don't suppose the person who implemented this design on this forum understands the concept of a 'Copyright' and thinks everything on the internet is public domain. Well, I guess this is a good way to learn.

PS.
Wow - they've been running this design start at least on 3/9/2003 :eek:

hah this is very ammusing, I wonder what WHT will do and when

Insane..

Hmmmm. :eek3:

Are we sure that design is not a sold template?

Seems ravio.com sells templates.

Did they specifically make it for WHT?

Yes there seems to be similarities btween there design and wht's new design. I am not sure when WHT installed there new design but it would appear the other forum has been active since at least January of 2002 ... 19 Months ... I don't think WHT has had this new design that long so we have to ask.

The chichen or the egg.

http://www.ravio.com/portfolio.php

The design was made just for WebHostingTalk and is not sold as one of ravios templates.

Yes it seems like it was done exclusively for WHT, but what is ravio.com sold it to them as well.

I wrote ravio.com to clear this up.

Who are they hosted by? anybody here? :D

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Domain servers in listed order:

DNS7.REGISTER.COM 216.21.234.74
DNS8.REGISTER.COM 216.21.226.74

[root@kiabiz root]# ping acuraworld.com
PING acuraworld.com (66.11.162.136) from 207.44.192.64 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mail.acuraworld.com (66.11.162.136): icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=55.839 msec

--- acuraworld.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 55.839/55.839/55.839/0.000 ms
[root@kiabiz root]# whoisa 66.11.162.136
[whois.arin.net]
Doncaster Consulting Inc PEER1-DONCASTER-BLK1 (NET-66-11-160-0-1)
66.11.160.0 - 66.11.191.255
Priority Colo Inc. ISTOP-MYLES-BLK1 (NET-66-11-162-0-1)
66.11.162.0 - 66.11.163.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-07-16 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

[root@kiabiz root]#

they are being hosted by porcupine/prioritycolo...time for a PM:

[MacOS:/Library/Apache2/htdocs/] da# traceroute acuraworld.com
traceroute to acuraworld.com (66.11.162.136), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 ath.mshome.net (192.168.0.1) 2.154 ms 0.608 ms 0.382 ms
2 192.168.11.1 (192.168.11.1) 13.706 ms 6.396 ms 3.85 ms
3 172.25.119.254 (172.25.119.254) 14.756 ms 11.54 ms 11.761 ms
4 glfd-t2cam1-b-ge-wan41-103.inet.ntl.com (80.4.30.141) 13.163 ms 12.315 ms *
5 gfd-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com (62.254.207.165) 12.051 ms 13.052 ms 11.382 ms
6 gfd-bb-b-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.29) 16.459 ms 12.112 ms *
7 tele-ic-2-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.74) 14.268 ms 16.749 ms 15.452 ms
8 linx.ge-0-0-0.gbr1.ltn.nac.net (195.66.224.94) 40.57 ms 53.148 ms 53.204 ms
9 1209.at-3-1-0.gbr1.nyc.nac.net (209.123.11.241) 448.319 ms 84.985 ms 85.849 ms
10 0095.gi4-7.msfc1.nyc.nac.net (64.21.102.6) 110.34 ms 87.455 ms 83.008 ms
11 0010.gi1-1.msfc1.tlw.nac.net (209.123.11.230) 112.831 ms 83.033 ms *
12 66.7.129.218 (66.7.129.218) 96.173 ms 113.28 ms 96.117 ms
13 gw-istop.prioritycolo.com (66.11.167.28) 115.347 ms 96.751 ms 94.955 ms
14 mail.acuraworld.com (66.11.162.136) 99.999 ms 106.511 ms 95.018 ms
[MacOS:/Library/Apache2/htdocs/] da#

Seems there are a few members there that think this is no big deal. :rolleyes:

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=461844#post461844

And this thread, someone has already been over there

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26525

Originally posted by MarcD
And this thread, someone has already been over there

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26525
Agg... don't read this, it's nine pages of preteen crap.

Originally posted by mindboggle
Agg... don't read this, it's nine pages of preteen crap.

I agree, nothing but a bunch of immature members there.

And I thought WHT threads got big quick. :rolleyes: :D

Most of the Pages relate like this:

FAAAART, PFFFHT, OMG MAN I TOOK THE LONGEST PISS EVER...


*please*

i can see that the forums look a lot alike, but it's a web board. doesn't most of the similarity come from the forum software?

i'm sure that a person can take pride in working out a nice color scheme, but i don't think it's a copyrightable thing.

And that member who had this image in their sig, talk about annoying.

Even one opf their own members commented for them to take it out.

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/5/psychorodeoclown.gif

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe the legal precedent of "finders keepers - losers weepers" applies here.

:rolleyes:

Situations likes this and dealing with people like this, just annoy me so much. Its a simple point, but no matter how hard anyone tries they just dont care. Sad really.

i'm sure that a person can take pride in working out a nice color scheme, but i don't think it's a copyrightable thing.

Maybe not the colours of the vbulletin tables, but the header and footer are not from VB and were designed seperately at a cost to the owners of WHT. Why should they pay for something that someone else can just steal and claim its theirs.

Originally posted by ljprevo
I agree, nothing but a bunch of immature members there.

That's putting it mildly. Good God......it's like a Jerry Springer farm league.

-B

AHHHH! Why did you link them all to WHT. You should have just contacted the owner directly. Now some of those kids will come over here begging for free webhosting etc. heh

I hope they don't come here with their crap when they are forced to come up with a new template.:rolleyes:

Wow, those members are something alright :rolleyes:

Originally posted by sHosts
AHHHH! Why did you link them all to WHT. You should have just contacted the owner directly. Now some of those kids will come over here begging for free webhosting etc. heh

Or they can come here, start their crap and we can give them a whipping, WHT style. :D

I hope RackShack gets them shut down.

they arent at rackshack :o

they are at p/colo... and the owner is a frequent poster on this board..

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26535 lmao

Originally posted by phision.com
they arent at rackshack :o

they are at p/colo... and the owner is a frequent poster on this board.. I know that silly, I was referring to the fact it's RackShack's intellectual property, or is it Ravio's?

Maybe we should troll on over to their site...

For some weird feeling I see a major flame war ahead. :eek:

Originally posted by MDJ2000
I know that silly, I was referring to the fact it's RackShack's intellectual property, or is it Ravio's?

the design is the property of headsurfer, if he bought the design..

I'm sure he paid something for it, advertising or cash...

there were few threads here about WHT being ripped before too

seems like this 1 didnt copy 100% , but its still very obvious

Even the comments in the html are the same...

Hi guys - I'm one of the moderators in the off topic section of acuraworld

it's an off topic section - that's where people screw around, and it is a lot of kids

now when a few of your members came over, I asked nicely for them to contact the admins with their concerns, and stop trolling and flaming - but they did not

they didn't even respect our forum rules which are less strict than your own - WTF is up w/ that?

*yawn* what a way to start the day....

Looks nice (someone emailed me it and i said "yeah, it looks quite nice, whats your point?", without linking into this thread hah. I'm on the classic theme so i don't even see the similarities, but i'm sure the WHT mods will contact the user if it really is a rip (aside from the nice colors, and the fact it's vb). Only thing I don't see (unless it's been changed), the headers and the footers look customized to me, but maybe i'm going blind too :eek:. Maybe when I wake up some more this will start making more sense :laugh:

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:eek: :stickout:

Janda the members were probably outsiders...people who arent signed up here but they still cruise around here.

you think? - they are all acting like raging ******** and defending you guys

Originally posted by janda_janda

it's an off topic section - that's where people screw around, and it is a lot of kids
Some of those kids are moderators it would seem, the anti-semitic remarks really reflect well on your staff.:disagree:

oh man! that's not us - they are reacting to trolls coming in

Tell Rackshack to go f themselves. I'll piss on that ****ty company.

Someone is begging for it...

i just came over to try to offer an olive branch until the admins sort it out

obviously that's not going to happen

enjoy your day

Originally posted by janda_janda
you think? - they are all acting like raging ******** and defending you guys

I see 9 pages of the above actions coming from your users, It does not matter though. It will all be handled by the owners for wht and priority colo. I think locking both threads in each forum is needed.

it is a dead horse

I think since this would be taken up privately there is no more reason for this thread being opened. As I suspect their memebrs will come along and trash it.

I respect your level headedness janda, but the site you represent has all the order of a mosh pit. Maybe you should start your own acura website, with a legitimate design and code of ethics? Just a thought.

done - jj