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[IdleServ]

This guy comes to me in AIM.... he says he is a manager at ev1 servers (his brother owns it) something along those lines.

Today he gives me a link to his new "in development" hosting site...
http://www.icthost.net/devel/

Compare that to mine... http://www.idleserv.net

He says he can ignore my © at the bottom of my site because the shopping cart i use isnt mine.
I may have paid for the shopping cart... but the site design is all done by me.
Look at the images use of colours... this guy lacks the ability of coming up with something of his own.
He also told me that ALOT of hosting sites have this type of layout like mine. I asked for examples... couldn't give them to me.

Im not sure what I can gain out of posting this... jus not happy

[IHSL]

That looks like a complete rip of your site.

Also, on a side note, i very much doubt that the guy is related to Robert Marsh

[Charlottezweb]

Let me get this straight...the guy actually messages you to tell you he is ripping your site?? Save your AIm logs and talk to your lawyer.

Jason

[essexguy]

AIM logs would not stand up in a court of law.

but even still just by looking at the sites you can tell its a complete rip.

[Charlottezweb]

I was referring to sending the logs to your lawyer to get them on the same page as you...obviously you can forge something like that, but it would help your lawyer understand what's going on...

Jason

[IdleServ]

I was going to save the log from earlier today... but I completely forgot and closed the window.
Next time hes back online... Im going to ask him what his brothers name is 1st.

Should his 'Final' version of his site look like mine... i will take action.

Also to note... hes stolen my green tick images. If you look on his site he has them saved as .bmp obvious hes gone into IE and saved the images from there.

[ALGORYTHM]

what a n00b obviously never heard of padding.

[Lippy]

Even the image of the case in the top left corner is a rip from I think the company name is Thermaltake, its a custom case you can order and I doubt he got permission to use it.

[carolinahosting]

Contact there upstream for copyright issues. That will either 1. get them to stop using it or 2. shut them down

[mercyhosting]

Either somthing has changed with one of the sites,, or maybe I'm missing somthing

I just looked at both the links provided, and they look somewhat similar, in the text avenue, but as far as graphics, there is only slight resemblances..

[Douglas]

http://www.whois.sc/icthost.net

Looks like a reseller of a reseller. :/

[Charlottezweb]

Originally posted by mercyhosting
Either somthing has changed with one of the sites,, or maybe I'm missing somthing

I just looked at both the links provided, and they look somewhat similar, in the text avenue, but as far as graphics, there is only slight resemblances..

Are you serious? That's one of the more blatant rips I've seen...

Jason

[ALGORYTHM]

http://www.whois.sc/icthost.net

Looks like a reseller of a reseller. :/

oh the shame of it they're english!

i think they are brothers, the one who ripped your design is icthost.net/com, ICT is what we call computing at GCSE level (10 & 11th grade) and his brother (or dad) who already runs a hosting reseller account -link- registered it for him. maybe he's branching out on his own :p

this is truly shameful, ok he ripped your design and now he confronts you about it, why?! i'm seriously tempted to call the mobile numbers and ask some questions.

IdleServ: dont back down over this and don't forget we got your back

[kayla]

Yes, he took your site. It is obvious even in the HTML code.

To be honest, his graphics are better on the right, of the hosting plans. Maybe you should take those.

[Charlottezweb]

I'm sorry but that's funny

Jason