kirupa.com Ripoff

[kirupa]

Hey everyone!
When you all get a chance, check out this URL: http://uk.hosting-unlimited.net/html/index.html and this one: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/

Is that not the most blatant ripoff of this site's design? I've e-mailed the webmaster about this. He couldn't even create his own animations :)

Cheers!
Kirupa :asian:

[Kitiara]

Blatant. :angry:

Hasn't even bothered to change the colours or anything...

[andr.in]

OMG THIS MAKES ME MAD! :angry:
THIS MAKES ME EVEN MADDER THAN THE THING THAT I SAW ANOTHER SYKO PLAYING CS! :scream: PPL ARE LAME I TELL YA LAAAMEEE! :scream: :angry:

[kirupa]

If he doesn't reply soon, I'm going to send this to CoolHomePages.com and have them add him to the plagiarizer list: http://www.coolhomepages.com/ (scroll down toward the bottom)

I am actually more amused than upset. Now I know how the people at 2A feel hehe.

Cheers!
Kirupa :thumb:

[lava]

hmm... we could start a kirupa war here... hehe.

[Kitiara]

True, now you have the claim to fame of being ripped off just like 2A. :smirk:

The most amusing thing is that he obviously thought no one would notice.

[lava]

Kirupa, you could seriously sue him. Or if you don't want to be mean about it, at least get a lawyer to send him a cease and desist letter. I've been studying up on copyright law for the last week or so.. hehe.

[Starpromo]

haha, its practicly the same but still feels alot sh i ter...

its funny to see people ripping peoples websites and so blatently failing...

go for the kill K

[andr.in]

well then you see that the design and all the stuff is you've done is sooo good that otha ppl can't do that so they have to rip but still makes me mad! And that nickstealer who stole my nick is soooooo laaameee! This makes me get a heart-attack at the age of 14!

[lava]

I sent him an email saying I knew his site was a ripoff... hehe. You guys should too.

[andr.in]

Ye let's make his mailbox full of messages saying "WHAT A RIPOFF"!
Can't there be a privacy policy or sth? actually I don't know what a privacy policy means to don't laught it it wasn't the thing I meant! License or sth! =)

[kirupa]

All designs/content on the internet, regardless of whether a copyright notice is displayed or not, is copyrighted by the creator of the material. Of course, this site does mention Copyright 2003, etc, etc. :)

Lava, no I'm not going to sue him or send a letter from a lawyer - this is no real biggie; just a minor annoyance. The design, even after the ripoff, doesn't really look all that good anyway =)

Cheers!
Kirupa :ub:

[Starpromo]

my word exactly kirupa... :)

[TheOrangeOne]

thats terrible! How did you find the site anyway?

Bollox to whether or not he's smallfry, you should hit him with everything you've got. Ones creative talent and skills should never be so blatently copied. This site is awesome, no one should take any part of it away from you Kirupa, esp. the design.

You really should take some action against this loser.



(this sort of thing really upsets me BTW.)


:angry: the angry orange one

[andr.in]

well you ppl are too good-hearted! I can't stand those kinda ppl!

[TheOrangeOne]

Originally posted by Syko
well you ppl are too good-hearted! I can't stand those kinda ppl!
yeah, they p*ss me off so much. They are just theives.

[Starpromo]

kirupa should have the moto take only memories... HAHA :)

[Kitiara]

Or we'll set Mak on them. :)

[SureShot]

hahaha K-man I dont think you have anythign to worry about - his looks like a 12 year old boy who types with his toes did it compared to yours :) I guess being copied is the truest form of flattery but it still stinks!

How did you find it?

[Guig0]

Originally posted by Syko
well you ppl are too good-hearted! I can't stand those kinda ppl!
well, that´s coz you´re a syko ;)


i feel bad for this guy, i really do.

he doesn´t have the capacity to make a good design on his own, and he doesn´t even have the capacity to make a decent copy of someone else´s design.

poor kido :(

[andr.in]

lol

[Alex]

haha i say we spam his mail.....


or there must be a way to report him/her/it. :P :P :P

[senocular]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
:beam:



Kirupa is god!
(ok not literally)

[tobydog]

Gone Already!!!
That was quick.

TD

[fester8542]

****.....thats bad....

K-man....you should hire a hit....

[Jubba]

oooh ooh Pick me! Pick ME!!! I'm the Kirupa.com hit-man!!

[Kitiara]

I thought Dan had that honourific? :)

[Jubba]

Dan is just angry on the forum. He is pretty mellow in real life (from what I have heard) I am mellow on the forum, but I am a very angry person in real life...

[Niann]

404 URL not found... hehe That was quick. =)

Cheers!
-Niann

[Kitiara]

Trigger happy Dan. :) Fair enough, we will let you have the honour of sorting this guy. :)

[kirupa]

Hmm, the site seems to be down. Maybe dan already pulled the hit off on the server :)

Cheers!
Kirupa :rd:

[sintax321]

Yep it seems like your campaing has been effective good job Kman

[andr.in]

hitman Syko <--- I like that! =)

[Alex]

haha he know's that he copied it, and thats why he shut it down. Haha we will have to keep an eye on that site to see if he gets it back up...

haha :P

[mlk]

Noooo I didnt have time too see it... Oh well I bet someone else will rip kirupa.com - it IS great....

[andr.in]

I bet there is already a riped-off one we haven't encountered yet!

[lostinbeta]

Man I am too late :( I wish I could have seen it.

[mdipi]

yeah me too...:( well at least its off the line

[kirupa]

Here is a screenshot for those who haven't seen it: http://www.kirupaforum.com/copy.jpg

I was e-mailed by someone called "J" about this site. It wasn't something I was actively searching for hehe. Also, the individuals of the business are not the same people who created the web site. I received an e-mail shortly from customer support telling me that they have taken the site down to further investigate this matter.

Cheers!
Kirupa :goatee:

[lostinbeta]

Wow, that truely is an exact rip colors and all. The funny thing is that anything they did change is actually way uglier and less professional than your stuff. I wonder if hosting unlimited can sue the people who "designed" their site to get their money back (You could sue, but no loss came to you of this, hosting unlimited probably paid money for this layout). I am sure they didn't intentionally pay for an exact copy/rip-off of a site.

[Raydred]

I think whats cool is, we have too big of a community that love Kirupa and his sites that we can presure someone to stop doing something like ripp offs etc, ... its kinda mafia style really lol =)

its just really cool =)

[telekinesis]

Oh the site is down, I didn't know ;)

[Voetsjoeba]

*Off to search more kirupa.com ripoff *****s *

[asphaltcowboy]

lol... alex.. I mentioned all that stuff about 2 pages ago... :P

[Jeff Wheeler]

even the screenshot is too old to see, come on guys! you are always deleting old stuff :(

[prstudio]

there was a forum crash a while back and all the attachments got erased, that's why some stuff isn't up anymore.

[Jeff Wheeler]

oh, how'd that manage to happen? oh well... I like digging up old stuff...

[DariusMonsef]

... I see you do...

[Maxtr0sity]

Stop. It makes it look like new news. Then by the 20th post, I read the timestamp.

[grinch]

Is it me, or is the first link broken? I really want to see this!

[Maxtr0sity]

They probably took it off. Afterall, this was a year ago. :sure:

[grinch]

*slaps himself in the head*
Ah ofcourse, forgot to look at first post! Thanks

[garyzero]

where is the "plagiarizer" list on coolhomepages? I really want to see it but can't seem to find it??