too bad you couldnât drop in a suicide.swf file that will eraticate the actionscripting on their end. and set it up so where they wouldnât know which swf file was causing the problem. even drop in a few duplicates, and decoys in case they want to try and figure out what the problem is.
that would be a cool way to keep others from ripping your work off. of course⌠you would have to find out a way of making that possible.
other than that you could just register a bunch of content from their site as websearch criteria for your own. send some of their customers your way to a dummy site(youâll have to create it in their language of course), and just put up some kind of âcriminalâ warning image up there so where ever their users go to no matter to their site or your own dummy site they will feel like the company is too risky to do business with.
odds are they charged some one else to produce the site. i figure the pirates are posing as a âsite creation companyâ.
even if the host takes down the site, the people have no respect for your work, cant design a site for themselves, and will probably just get a new host. So my advice would be to take legal action, or take a flight to malaysia.
The trouble with them being in Malysia is that youâll have to sue over there if thatâs going to be the end of it. And Malaysian - not US - copyright law will apply. It may even be legal to copy a website in Malaysia. But I hope you can get their host to shut it down.
Btw., âpisangâ means banana in malay as far as I know. Anyone know that terrible green drink called âPisang Ambonâ? Thatâs made from bananas.
The above should be taken with a grain of salt. Iâm not a lawyer. I just play one on TV.
joining this thread late but that is amazing, theyâve completly copied the siteâŚIâm shocked that anyone would do that. Iâm shocked anyone would want to do that. Geez.
I wouldnât count on malaysian law to help fix this one, seems a bit of a lost cause.
How about sending them a virusâŚor is that to childish
just looking at the pirates site and I just realised that theyâre saying theyâre clients include Macromedia and Phillips but obviously they ainât
Isnât there someway to incure the wrath of your clients on to these b******s :h:
If you donât want to pester your clients with this, how about getting a friend to send an anonymous mail to them.
Is there anything they changed at all? If its a straight .swf without any changes, obviously every email sent to him will be sent to the owner, pixiâŚ
âBtw., âpisangâ means banana in malay as far as I know. Anyone know that terrible green drink called âPisang Ambonâ? Thatâs made from bananas.
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I never knew it was made from bananas, it tases like⌠well⌠u know
In this case its quite obvious because they didnât bother changing any of the contentâŚbut in the event that you find that someone has ripped your design, how do you go about proving you had the design first. Sure its easy to send them a cease-and-desist letter with legal action being threatened, but whats to stop someone from saying it was originally there design and you ripped them? How do you prove it was yours before theres?
Hi Guys, I think we will definately NOT get our clients involved! - We have since I posted this thread, received very good advice from some members and have passed this onto some hardcore web-legal guys to deal with.
To answer your question Maizoon, we have all the original time stamped ( vss) source and dev files to prove it, not to mention long standing relationships with our clients, and we can produce source for all our work listed on the site. so No prob there.
Thanks to all for your advice - If the legal team cant handle it, we will be bringing out the digital baseball bats. Ciao Pixi.