Well well, searching through our logs I see that the wonderful people at http://www.tcaim.com/index.php have stolen the graphics and total design of the boxes on the right hand side of their site directly from us. They did not even change the wording of the text, let alone apply a style sheet to the text.... :rolleyes:

OUR IMAGE: http://www.megahosters.com/images/righticons_48.gif

THEIR IMAGE: http://www.tcaim.com/images/right_icons/righticons_48.gif

I find this funny becasue they claim to be a design and hosting company and they can not even use original stuff for their website in the first place.

I tried contacting them with no luck regarding this. I'll post back once I hear their more then likely lame excuse for doing this.

Have a look at the exact copy they made... Have a look at their site and then look at our site. (Link is in my signature).

What drives people to do this? We bust our butts to make a design that is ours and then people come and just think they can take certain elements of it.

What should I do?

BAD MONKEYS!

Clint

You will not be able to contact them :) And do not worry. I don't think they are in business any way.

Just did an md5 on the images too so just to confirm they really did rip us. Still no response from them.

[root@xxxx]# wget http://www.tcaim.com/images/right_icons/righticons_48.gif
--14:40:11-- http://www.tcaim.com/images/right_icons/righticons_48.gif
=> `righticons_48.gif'
Resolving www.tcaim.com... done.
Connecting to www.tcaim.com[64.49.223.183]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,597 [image/gif]

100%[========================================================================================>] 2,597 2.48M/s ETA 00:00

14:40:11 (2.48 MB/s) - `righticons_48.gif' saved [2597/2597]

[root@xxxx]# wget http://www.megahosters.com/images/righticons_48.gif
--14:40:22-- http://www.megahosters.com/images/righticons_48.gif
=> `righticons_48.gif.1'
Resolving www.megahosters.com... done.
Connecting to www.megahosters.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,597 [image/gif]

100%[========================================================================================>] 2,597 2.48M/s ETA 00:00

14:40:22 (2.48 MB/s) - `righticons_48.gif.1' saved [2597/2597]

[root@xxxx]# md5sum righticons_48.gif
50ce9f5ebb9b71d6b63de432c1cd590c righticons_48.gif

[root@xxxx]# md5sum righticons_48.gif.1
50ce9f5ebb9b71d6b63de432c1cd590c righticons_48.gif.1


BUSTED. MD5 Hash matches exactly.

Originally posted by Lordo
You will not be able to contact them :) And do not worry. I don't think they are in business any way.

What makes you say that?

C

Thats a shame.....Simply pathetic.

Thats seriously sad.

I know that because I know about the guy behind it and another site. He is someone who is trying to do everything by himself but he can't. I believe he will redesign the site. He currently has no ongoing successful business.

He called me and explained to me that he outsourced his design to a russian individual who must have stolen the images.

None the less he apologized and removed them from his website.

An apology and removal of the images is good enough for me. He was actually a very nice guy. If he works at it he should be successful.

Anyway, this thread is done.

Clint