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Old 10-17-2002, 03:18 AM
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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.

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Old 10-17-2002, 03:51 AM
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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?
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Old 10-17-2002, 04:18 AM
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They stole your layout, yea. There's nothing you can do.
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Old 10-17-2002, 04:21 AM
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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.
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Old 10-17-2002, 08:41 AM
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They stole images too...
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Old 10-17-2002, 09:12 AM
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Looks like the site has gone now
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Old 10-17-2002, 10:52 AM
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Looks like the host may have gotten their act together.
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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.

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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.
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your site looks awesome Dark Shogun...

Suggestion: switch to vb

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