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    Another Site gets copied at the Expense of the Owners!

    I hate seeing sites get ripped of all the time...

    I was shown this one only today, Marty from HHQ ( Host Head Quarters ) is a good bloke and i have dealings with him, i know that he has been working with a designer on something special.

    And a few weeks back he showed it to me and i though it was a great site for his target market and thought it was designed to perfection.

    Today it was pointed out to me that it has been copied by t e r r a h o p.com
    obviously this Url/link has been banned for a good reason!

    It is sad to say that there are people looking over forums like this and grabbing designs and setting up shop with other peoples hard earned design.

    Even the prices are the same and meta tags, Just changed to US dollars i believe. The URLS are:

    t e r r a h o p.com ( Put the words together ) copied
    www.hostheadquarters.com

    Kind regards
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    Choopy,

    Thanks for pointing that out to the people here. I am very mad, and have emailed them regarding this.

    I cant belive that I was talking to them about re - selling there domain names and was going to go with them because they were very helpful, then after checking my logs I found this hehe. They did remember to change the important things like the links to their merchants.

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    Hello,

    I'm the designer that made Marty's page. Although it's kind of flattering, it is extremely frusterating to have people copy and paste your hard work for their own use.

    But by doing this, t e r r a h o p pretty much ruined their chances of becoming a respected host, so that's punishment in and of itself.

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    YaR - Yet another rip
    This forum officially ****ing sucks
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    LOL they even left the GST information in there.

    All prices listed are inclusive of GST.

    I dont belive California has GST
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    LMAO
    This forum officially ****ing sucks
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    LOL

    we should really make a host blacklist... admin'd by a committee maybe. it'd be helpful.
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    My my, talk about a blatant rip. That's horrible....
    http://www.genaldi.com
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    OK,

    Ideas of where to go from here? I have emailed them and there providers, any other ideas?
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    I feel for you, man. Find out which DC they are in and report them.
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    Plus they resell names for Enom, you can't resell for them....
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    looks almost like a frame forward gosh these guys kow how to cover it up
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    Plus they resell names for Enom, you can't resell for them....

    You can resell domain names for enom.
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    That's just horrible to be blatantly copying someone's site like that and expecting not to be caught??? It doesn't take much to buy a template these days with all these templates selling on WHT, why not spend a couple bucks and get a template if you have limited design skills? There is no excuse to be settling to ripping off your competitors design.
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    Wow what a direct rip. Sorry that happened to you.
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    Block the links

    He is still linking to your site for images and css. Just block his access and he will have a very strange looking site.

    Not true as pointed out below....I dozed off for a moment.

    However, he was too lazy to change the names so shows his sources as hostheadquarters files.

    Preventive is to set so images can't be copied, but too late this time.
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    incognito He has them on his server in a directory called HostHeadquarters_files . He isn't hotlinking them.
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    How do you scan for these site rips?

    Hi,

    I agree this is very, very bad. What I want to know is how does one go about "policing" for those who rip one's site; i.e. what/where/how does one keep on the lookout for copy-cat sites that rip your design?


    Also, is it something that can be automated?


    Thanks,

    Louis
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    Get 'em on Judge Judy , pretty cheap to do probably, you'd almost definatly win, and man that would be good to watch
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    Re: Block the links

    Originally posted by Incognito
    He is still linking to your site for images and css. Just block his access and he will have a very strange looking site.

    Following is part of the source from t e r r a h o p

    <link href="HostHeadquarters_files/styles.css" type="TEXT/CSS" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>T e r r a h o p Internet Services</title>

    <td background="HostHeadquarters_files/row1_bg.gif">

    src="HostHeadquarters_files/row1_logo.gif

    src="HostHeadquarters_files/row1_INDEX_splash.jpg

    Crooked and lazy....not a single image link is to an image on his site, all linked to hostheadquarters.
    LOL, he's used IE "save entire web page" option ... LOL ...
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    Wow! It only took them 6 days to rip it.
    http://www.hostheadquarters.com
    21/6/2002
    New Site Launched

    http://terrastupid.com
    27/6/2002
    New Site Launched
    what losers!
    DANG DANG! DANG!!™
    I know ***** ripped off everybody else, but they wouldn't do it to me.
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    Originally posted by ATST
    Wow! It only took them 6 days to rip it.
    http://www.hostheadquarters.com
    21/6/2002
    New Site Launched

    http://terrastupid.com
    27/6/2002
    New Site Launched
    what losers!
    I didnt know IE was that fast, at copying sites .. wow, i must catch up with technology
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    they didn't get around to copying the ToS Page..

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    ******** Internet Services 1541 Amador Street Crescent City, California 95531



    Support@********.com

    (707)954-1247
    ---------------------------

    ah, that'd be funny.. take screenies of all the pages and then call them up... thats really sad to rip something and then stick up your contant info... 's like robbing a bank and leaving your business card.
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    LOL @ Business card ... or even your credit card. ..
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    How did you find out about it?
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