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Best Way To Handle Ripped Website?
OnraHost_Zack
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Hi Everyone,
Looking for some advice. As some of you may know, Onra Host has a new website. (see https://www.onrahost.com/ I spent about 4 months personally designing it. It's based off of Bootstrap with FlatUI.
A customer informed me that it was ripped by another company. Website is http://trentnode.com/ - tell me that doesn't look at least a little familiar! (Also, I'm going to assume they don't have a license for that stock photo, yet I do). I took a look at their Facebook (link on their website) - look at that, the same stock photo, again (and somehow 2500 followers?) Seems to be a parent company- "Node Limited UK". If you need any more proof that it was stolen, view the source of the page, and search "onra" - 12 results. Then, open the custom.min css file- 68 more results.
I submitted an abuse report to OVH (IP 188.165.29.118 shows to be owned by OVH, Paris DC). However, I know OVH can be a little slow. What's the best way to deal with this? Whoisguard is enabled, FYI.
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Have you called the # on their page? I'd let them know you know.
Spook them.
(+44) 0115-888-1282
Will ovh not do anything?
You can't copyright a website, they haven't done anything illegal unless they've ripped your copyrighted text/images. Design by its own, does not fall under copyright.
I'll give them a call in the morning - it's about 9PM over there
We'll see- might take a while.
Even so, the images are copyrighted. Worst case scenario, I'll have Shutterstock deal with them. Still, not very cool of them to do that. Incredibly unprofessional.
Also, nice username.
Oh @OnraHost_Zack , it is a real ripoff even the name is not changed
"img/onrahost_scaled.png"
Hope you will be able to bring it down soon.. best luck
I know! Absolutely incredible. Couldn't even take the time to do a simple find\replace to swap out the word Onra.
Also, they left my Google Analytics code in, so my reports are going to be skewed. Blah.
@OnraHost_Zack - PM'd you. Done a bit of digging for you!
A letter to namecheap should be enough.
Namecheap doesn't host the illegal content, they just provide the domain name.
Ovh wont answer such emails
Goes to show how good looking/professionally designed your site is that someone would rip it.
You can actually. Just like any artwork. It's too much of a hassle most of the time but you can protect it. Not worth the money / paperwork / time for a basic bootstrap based site though.
Well, that's not what I read when trawling through copyright.gov and certainly not what quotes from actual IP lawyers found on the net say. So, do the honours and quote me the law.
Needles to say I'm not a law expert but I recall reading an article about the matter. It was about how you can copyright the usage/combination of design elements your 'template' consists of. Never cared to bookmark it but may I stumble upon it again I will quote you the law
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David- thank you SO MUCH! The information you provided will help!
It might to be honest. They might be able to take down the domain. Might have to go straight to Enom- we'll see.
Of course not they're OVH.
Thank you! Yeah I agree. When I saw it I was FURIOUS thinking about all the time and energy I put into building it. Then I was flattered. And then of course back to angry.
Thanks Peter! I'll be putting in a DMCA for sure.
I believe this is true. One of my biggest clients is a Patent\Trademark attorney, and ironically I have an unrelated meeting with him tomorrow. I'll get you guys an answer on this tomorrow afternoon!
Thanks all for your help! I'll keep you posted.
It's useless to report the IP to OVH, they cannot do anything obviously unless they get contacted by the police due to a report.
I understand your feeling and it's evident that it's ripped, I don't know if it worths or not but as last option you may report it to the authorities.
This is an interesting article based on US laws:
https://www.astuteo.com/articles/stolen-website-design/
Take some ideas from it
Is a super moderator encouraging phone mobbing? Playing with fire aren't we?
A good read! Thanks!
Turns out the number is fake. @Ishaq @dailymc
"Phone mobbing"?
I was simply stating he should try calling and asking them to explain why they stole his design.
Are you a racist against super moderators then? Are they not allowed to join in the joys of the general population?
Wow he's at it again and didn't even do a good job at ripping it:
This is the guy: https://twitter.com/craigjamesprice Craig Price he's known for this and he doesn't last long with the sites / businesses he opens.
he's from skeggy no wonder..
Err sorry, I didn't mean it like that. It was a cheeky joke
The most forum-status-ist you've ever seen... (you know, like instead of being prejudice against skin color, it's against the status they are on the forum...
It was a bad joke, ok
I was just messing with you
Take a pingdom, gtmetrix speedtest of their website (make the report public), or run firebug / other dev tools to generate the waterfall chart for the assets loading from their domain. Highlight the interesting parts.
Send them an email with the generated reports / proof and politely ask them to take the website down till the time they fix their hot mess.
Also, send an email to Shutterstock reporting their details and have them deal with their unlicensed photograph at the same time.
They will probably buckle under the added pressure much faster. Still, if for some reason, that doesn't help, call them out directly on facebook. :P
@OnraHost_Zack Just say the words if you'd like Craig trolled on twitter - https://twitter.com/craigjamesprice
@deadbeef
I know
But those moderators, send them back to their own country. Lets build a WALL and then make the mods pay for it!
Edit- took a xanax and I feel better now sorry
Gah, no use for my That Escalated Quickly meme now
You yourself use bootstrap as the framework. So that kind of puts you under the same umbrella as bootstrap. Not sure what license bootstrap uses but I'm assuming it's one of the free to use and reuse ones.
Looking at that site I would say they used a lot of your CSS but a very big part of bootstrap is the CSS part. I know when I am doing theming I look at other themes for ideas and when I see something I like I will get the CSS for it.