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PURE Plagiarism of my personal Website

marcozanobini.com

12 pointsattackemartin10 comments

its a 1:1 copie of my personal award winning website http://attackemart.in

Have you looked at the HTML is it a direct rip-off or did he redevelop the same idea. Either way there is no way around the fact that it has been modeled after your page, so much so that it would seem that he grabbed your page and added his info. I am assuming that this was mostly coded by you? If it is the product of a few jQuery plugins glued together then it I can understand someone reproducing the effect, but if there was a lot of custom HTML to develop it then you have a clear case of plagiarism.

I just looked at the source for both sites, and it's obviously a direct copy that the other guy edited extremely lightly. The variable names and comments are exactly the same. (He did take the trouble to translate some of them from German to English.)

Yeah it looked like a direct copy to me to, but I always like to highlight any doubt before I assume guilt.

This is why we need a government. He's stolen your intellectual property (a clear initiation of force), and you should be able to seek redress. There is only one organization that can ultimately serve as an objective arbiter between you and the thief: the government.

I would send him an email about it, and if he didn't take it down within a few days, I'd sue him.

He didn't just copy the code, but he also put his name on it and gave it a GPL license.

http://cl.ly/1h0t1o1g283i2S0W371A

Wow that is pretty bad, lifting the code is bad enough but throwing a GPL license on it is a pretty crappy thing to do, if it got into the wild you would have a mess on your hands from people that believe that they have a legitimate right to use the code base. It is a good thing you caught it when you did, did you check github and other sites to ensure that he did not throw the code up there and take credit for it.

my site is http://attackemart.in

1:1 copie

Unbelievable! Never thought that someone who points out to be a web designer could do this.

Have you had a chance to contact them? What did they say?

alright... i contacted him... the site is down permanently

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