[thelist] Site copied by pirates [not really]

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 01:19:22 CDT 2006


> > That just means he had to import it into that software to change
> > anything, and is just smart enough to copy someone else's hard work and
> > then call it his own. If you do a file diff on the two you will see they
> > are the same originally, heck, just open the source in two windows and
> > switch back and forth and you can see that it's the same.
> >
> > Another good clue that you have been duped Eduardo, is the class names
> > and especially the one called "fubar" near the top are in English and do
> > not match the rest of the author's efforts.

> You mean the "stolen code" is the layout markup, and maybe some
> JavaScript in the rollover images?

Not really, they also hit his site analytics package, and that is just
daft and also bandwidth stealing. You cannot protect your HTML, CSS
and JS on the web and most developers are happy to share, but simply
copying it and keeping dependencies to the other server in place is
not flattering but plain stealing.



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