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Quick investigation suggests the original poster here is in the wrong.

This is a diff of the CSS file from both projects: http://paste.roguecoders.com/p/2f703b39668f1b85ee071ec42ed52...

CodeCanyon clearly puts the release date for the paid version at June 2012, while the supposed open-source version has multiple dates pointing at December 2012.

I temporarily forked the repository on GitHub for posterity. Compare the feature list between https://github.com/lunixbochs/jquery-classyedit/blob/master/... and https://pure.codeworks.org.uk/features.php

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Looks like he deleted his GitHub account: https://github.com/classpm

I changed my fork of his repo to private. Let me know if you need it for anything.

Thank you very very much! Sorry I haven't replied earlier, because I'm such a new account it stopped me from posting for a bit. Really appreciate yours and everyone else's support during all of this.

Here's another suspicious plugin to look into:

On codecanyon for $6 under the name 'jQee' http://codecanyon.net/item/jqee-keyboard-shortcuts-for-jquer...

On class.pm as 'ClassyKeyboard' http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classykeyboard/

Edit: And another

On codecanyon for $6 as 'RollBar': http://codecanyon.net/item/rollbar-jquery-scrollbar-plugin/2...

On class.pm as 'ClassyScroll': http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classyscroll/

I think we're finding a pattern! Well spotted! I wonder how many others there are!?

Glad you saw this. Well I've had 2 for 2 success just sticking 'codecanyon jquery keyboard plugin' and 'codecanyon jquery scrollbar plugin' into Google so I suspect there'll be more.

I've emailed both of the above authors through CodeCanyon and pointed them to this thread. That's my good samaritan work done for the day but I think you should look for more! :)

Hey guys, thanks to those people who messaged me! I'm the original author of jQee.

It looks like his site couldn't handle all the traffic from HN, but after looking at google's cache I can see he's ripped most of my sales copy word for word, and just changed the examples slightly.

People have been pirating this script since day one, but claiming ownership and releasing it as his own makes me much more irritated. Is he doing this so he can build a fake portfolio and rip off someone else who would then hire him for freelance? I can't really tell from his now defunct website.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I can do about it. Honestly, it's not worth my time given that it's only made only ~$150 in the 1.5 years it's been on CodeCanyon. For me, this script was a one-time CodeCanyon experiment.

However, I'm sure some of the other more serious CodeCanyon authors might have more to lose. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

Josh

I did a little investigating to see how long this has been going on:

My project has been in the wayback machine since March 2012, incidentally the same time I posted to CodeCanyon: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvi...

His page project first appeared March 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class...

My project predates the creation (Nov 2012) of his domain name even: http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm

Also his site isn't down -- he intentionally put that message there, I assume to lessen the heat. His wife's subdomain (http://tina.class.pm/) is still active and lives on the same IP address: 137.135.220.37

Good luck Coder937! I hope you can get your project back on CC.

His site's back up now, with all the projects still linked. I'll mirror it.

He appears to have removed links to the obviously offending plugins now, the 4 I spotted at least.

He still has the gall to leave that blog post up though.

Update, in case anyone refers back to this thread

I spotted 3 more offending plugins today, still up on his site class.pm, that's 7 so far that he appears to have taken from CodeCanyon and is passing off as his own.

I've emailed the authors concerned.

  http://codecanyon.net/item/owl-unobtrusive-css3-notifications/408575
  http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classynotty/

  http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-grooveshark-style/526922
  http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classylightbox/

  http://codecanyon.net/item/powercontext/551656
  http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classycontextmenu/

I'm happy to provide you with the original codecanyon download too, tell me where to send it!

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