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 you’ll have to sue over there if that’s 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., ‘pisang’ means banana in malay as far as I know. Anyone know that terrible green drink called ‘Pisang Ambon’? That’s made from bananas.
The above should be taken with a grain of salt. I’m not a lawyer. I just play one on TV.
joining this thread late but that is amazing, they’ve completly copied the site…I’m shocked that anyone would do that. I’m shocked anyone would want to do that. Geez.
I wouldn’t count on malaysian law to help fix this one, seems a bit of a lost cause.
How about sending them a virus…or is that to childish
In this case its quite obvious because they didn’t bother changing any of the content…but 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.
Hi guys thanks for all your help and support ! The pisangmas pirates site is down ! A big shout out to Voetsjoeba who managed to shake a digital fist at them and get them to take the site down. Them be made to walk the plank arrrghhh :pirate3:
Voets we love you. Pixi and the Max Definition team…