Pirated Web Design. Yar Matey!
[ Posted by Dan on July 18, 2002 | 0 Comments ]
Denizens of
the WebDesign List already know about this and those who don't, should. Two web sites (
here and
here) have the same interface, and Earl Cooley from the List notes...
A check of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine shows that heshketh.com use [sic] the design at least as early as November 9th, 2000 and bannerboxuk.com started with it around November 22nd, 2001, about a year later.
So, what's a web designer to do when the entire profession is based on reusable (read: stolen) code? Well, I have to believe there's some sort of case for (
or against?)
copyright violations here. Just read the source code and you'll see they didn't even bother changing the comments.
Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).