Stolen Layout
 

Ok. Basicly I co-own

this site: http://www.hellfusion.com

And the person that stole the layout is over here:

http://evo.phpwebhosting.com/~ka0s/

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Ok. They don't want to take the layout down even though I have contacted them and their host. Their host has not done anything and I emailed them sunday night. I emailed them again and am awaiting a response.

What do you think I can do about this? I have threatened a lawsuit but I don't know where this character lives.

Dark Shogun

Threaten their host. If you have a lawyer, get your lawyer to contact their host. Call the host up and speak to somebody. The host is liable as well if they are hosting a site that is breaching copyright laws. Are they copying your images or just the layout?

They stole your layout, yea. There's nothing you can do.

If it's only layout, then there's not much you can do. They have to copy images which are subject to copyright, not a layout which cannot be copyright.

They stole images too...

Looks like the site has gone now :D

Looks like the host may have gotten their act together. :)

Thank goodness they took it down. I REALLY didn't want to have to get a lawyer and sue sue sue. They copied the WHOLE site images, layout, content, and if my site wasn't coded in php he would have stolen the scripts also.

Dark Shogun

How do you steal PHP scripts from a website? Unless that person hacked into your site, then downloaded the PHP scripts..there isn't a way. Also, there is no copyright against stealing a layout! So you couldn't hold a case on him from account of that. As for images though, he did copy those so there was reason for him to take his site down.

your site looks awesome Dark Shogun...

Suggestion: switch to vb ;)

- miSt

They can steal the php with the right programs but they didn't. They stole everything else though.

@Mist - Thanks. I am 1 of 3 owners and we have a custom forum that one of the owners and a staffer are making. It is not finished yet though.

http://www.hellfusion.com/apbb

Dark Shogun

Nice looking board. Has that been written in PHP from scratch by your staff?

Yes it is 100% custom. Androdas likes the look of XMB so thats how he made it look.

Dark Shogun

Wow that thing loads hella fast, i wouldent mind having something like that myself.

Yeah. The server we are on is fast also. Unfortunatly I doubt Androdas would give the forum away. Plus it doesn't have 1/4 of the features vbulletin does, aleast not yet. I am getting a custom for made for about $3,800. :)

Dark Shogun

Yea very fast loading :)
Good Job

-Arunan

Well i dident say i wanted it ;). But i would like to see such speed in vBulletin myself, its one thing i love about openbb. If hes looking to make some money off of it i hear bbadmins.com is looking for a custom script because the fact that they use vBulletin is making people think its a vB site.