Peeps
11-29-2001, 07:45 AM
Why is it so difficult for some hosts to come up with their own design or information for their sites? Is their mindset so derivative that they can't even be troubled to try to mask their theft if they insist on acting in an unethical way?
Take the Championhost thread, as a starter. Ripoffs galore, and it seems every other day this guy is changing his design - but not to something original. He just finds another site to steal. In the time it takes to do all that, could he not come up with some material on his own? Right now, the about us page looks very familiar, but I can't place the original.
Or, for example, take hostilizer.com. The other day I pointed out that there was a bold faced lie on the about us page. I see the portion about hostilizer building data centers "around the world" has been removed, but I found the original page where that claim was lifted. And I still see that he has not altered in a substantive way the text that remains. Compare the two.
http://corp.hostilizer.com/
"Since we opened our doors today, we have offered our customers, small and large, the highest quality hosting services in the world. You will not find our top notch quality services elsewhere."
http://www.burlee.com/aboutburlee/index.asp
"Since we opened our doors in 1997, we have offered our customers, small and large, the highest quality hosting services in the world."
That same site is peppered with what looks to be lifts from other hosts, reworded a tad, since it's quite apparent what he has written and what he has not. Here's a hint for you hosts that think it's fine to steal other site content: your writing habits give you away. We're not stupid.
So what do you think, WHTers? Is it just so rampant in the industry that the thousands and thousands of smaller peeps feel free to steal other content or lie on their sites and that they can't possibly be caught? Or is it, as was suggested in another thread, fine for these hosts to do that, or to lie, since acting in that way "doesn't hurt anyone"? My question in that other thread stands. Whatever happened to acting in an ethical manner because it is the right thing to do rather than acting in an unethical manner because it "doesn't hurt anyone"?
Take the Championhost thread, as a starter. Ripoffs galore, and it seems every other day this guy is changing his design - but not to something original. He just finds another site to steal. In the time it takes to do all that, could he not come up with some material on his own? Right now, the about us page looks very familiar, but I can't place the original.
Or, for example, take hostilizer.com. The other day I pointed out that there was a bold faced lie on the about us page. I see the portion about hostilizer building data centers "around the world" has been removed, but I found the original page where that claim was lifted. And I still see that he has not altered in a substantive way the text that remains. Compare the two.
http://corp.hostilizer.com/
"Since we opened our doors today, we have offered our customers, small and large, the highest quality hosting services in the world. You will not find our top notch quality services elsewhere."
http://www.burlee.com/aboutburlee/index.asp
"Since we opened our doors in 1997, we have offered our customers, small and large, the highest quality hosting services in the world."
That same site is peppered with what looks to be lifts from other hosts, reworded a tad, since it's quite apparent what he has written and what he has not. Here's a hint for you hosts that think it's fine to steal other site content: your writing habits give you away. We're not stupid.
So what do you think, WHTers? Is it just so rampant in the industry that the thousands and thousands of smaller peeps feel free to steal other content or lie on their sites and that they can't possibly be caught? Or is it, as was suggested in another thread, fine for these hosts to do that, or to lie, since acting in that way "doesn't hurt anyone"? My question in that other thread stands. Whatever happened to acting in an ethical manner because it is the right thing to do rather than acting in an unethical manner because it "doesn't hurt anyone"?