[thelist] Site copied by pirates [not really]

Mattias Thorslund mattias at thorslund.us
Fri Jun 23 03:06:18 CDT 2006


Christian Heilmann wrote:
>> 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.
>   

Not to defend it, but it looks unintentional to me since it seems so
pointless to keep it. It just goes to show it's not a professional that
did this.

Mattias



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