Check out this page

http://www.findmyhosting.com/Glossary.htm

Then look at this page

http://www.occhosting.com/support/Glossary.htm

OCCHosting totally lifted - HTML and all, what took us a significant number of hours to put together!

They added a few extra definitions into the list - these were clear to see because the font was different. Our domain name was mentioned in the text - they even left that in!

After emailing them (no reply) - They did the following
- Took out any mention of our domain name from the text
- Fixed the font of any extra definitions they had added


I suppose it shouldn't be such a big deal - but to make a copy so blatant is shocking & then to have the audacity to add a copywrite to the end of the page!!

It's a shame when you spend many hours creating something to just have it ripped off.


Oh well....

Hello
I think it may be a case of "live and let live".
The internet is rather like the wild west and this sort of thing, although it may be annoying, is low level.
Sometimes its quite funny.
There is a host who has the TOS copied from one of our brands into their page and they have left our company name in in every clause.
I still have a laugh when I see it coming up in search results.

No to belittle your situation, but its surprising its not more common when all that source code is just lying around for anyone to look at.

Gordon

I should have said, if you are really concerned then your only route is legal action.
This will always get results.

Gordon

You are right of course.

I'd never really consider legal action over that, it's not that crucial in the grand scheme of things.

Maybe OCC hosting will read this thread & at least return my email! or maybe even put a reference to us at the end of the page.

If it was a huge deal to person, couldnt you encrypt your source code and add annoying features like an "onrightclick" clause that would pop up a message??

The "onrightclick" feature is just as you put it: annoying and doesn't really solve anything, since it relies on JavaScript being enabled in your browser. Just turn it off or select View / Source from your browser menu and there you have the source. If you want to grab it, File / Save in IE saves the whole shaboom, pictures and all, on your harddisk. So that is not a solution. And hey, if you have viewed the page, it's already downloaded to your local cache...

Originally posted by goodness0001
If it was a huge deal to person, couldnt you encrypt your source code and add annoying features like an "onrightclick" clause that would pop up a message??

The OnRightClick wouldn't solve anything.

..and encrypting your pages with Zend's PHP encoder (or a similar product) only encodes it on the server file level. The raw "end result" HTML would still be visible in the client browser. Some people have tried to obfuscate their HTML (remove carriage returns, etc) -- but nearly all HTML editors (Dreamweaver, Homesite, etc) can correct that in a few seconds.

If someone is seriously infringing on your intellectually property, legal action is usually the best course -- assuming they don't make reasonable adjustments when you first contact them. ;)