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A Valuable Lesson To Be Learnt
A day ago, Hemmy.net posted an article about ‘Creative Advertisements Around The World‘. Seemingly enough clones seemed to spring up just few hours later where two examples would be eglobe1 and 2loop. Both copied the exact pictures and wordings.
While the article got to the front page of digg and reddit, the cheapass webmaster also known as onion82 at www.eglobe1.com posted to the big sites at www.fark.com and www.i-am-bored.com. Well, anger was the first emotion to be released but calmly later, it was realised that something had to be done bout this in a rational manner. This is the email which I had with Drew Curtis at www.fark.com.
Katana: This guy at at the front page of www.fark.com just ripped off my article.Can you help me do something like delete his link or something?
Drew Curtis: I changed the url. Sorry about the trouble, hope you get to kick that guy’s ass someday
Katana: Thanks a lot!! 
Drew Curtis: anytime man
I owe him one. Well the webmaster at www.i-am-bored.com has not replied yet.
The webmaster at www.i-am-bored.com has replied as well, Thanks as well
Wow, that is really lame. You should contact the owner of that site
and let them know you don’t appreciate it. I will change the link to
point to your page.
But this is the way to tackle those using cheap tactics. The next time I’m going to write a long article, I will definitely watermark the pictures first. Watermarking doesn’t always mean taking pictures and make it your own but it is also to prevent theft like this. This is a valuable lesson to be learnt definitely.
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October 17th, 2006 at 12:11 am
I wish one day i will have problems like this :p
Now seriously, it is very furstrating to see someone copy you directly…sometimes they just seem to find the same things, but the same exact stuff? that’s cheap man..
Good luck and happy to see you blooming like this =)
Allen.H
October 17th, 2006 at 2:18 am
Thanks Allen.
The tactic used by onion82 in order to drive traffic to his site was very low dirt which is the problem that I thought I would like to share.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:17 am
I am a big fan of FARK…and I’m glad it led me to your site. Drew Curtis has done more to promote the web as anybody and he is a totaly fair guy. That article rocked. -RV
October 17th, 2006 at 3:33 am
We should all keep our eyes opened for our-budy webmasters, i see your BlogAds sales are soaring high =)
Allen.H
October 17th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
thumbs down to those cheapo-ass who steal ppl’s stuff. =D
October 18th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Recognized the same thing on fark and was about to post in the discussion thread… great that you got it fixed. Drew rocks! Great posts, you just earned a new rss subscription. Keep up the good work.
October 18th, 2006 at 11:36 am
i too, posted the wrong URI, but katana has alerted me, and i fixed the link to the correct website.
stealing an entire posting? man, that’s weak…
October 18th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
[...] UPDATE: Mr. Katana of Hemmy.net is the real creator of the Creative Ads list and not the webmaster of Eglobe13. Apparently Eglobe1 stole his entry and is passing it off as his4. Read more about it here. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Thanks for the info Mr Katana, I already changed the link. Sorry to hear that your entry was ripped off by the eglobe guy, that’s pretty low of him. Being a graphic designer, I’ve been a victim of intellectual property piracy too quite a number of times. Sad, I know but I guess that’s just how it is in the world wide web. ):
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 pm
How did you find out about this? What are you going to do with those idiots who copied your stuff?
I’m seeing some cheapass bloggers who use my images straight from my source, they don’t even want to host the images on their own. I really don’t know what to do.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:10 am
I checked using technorati as well as sites which I always frequent. Regarding solving this problem I guess this is a problem bloggers can’t do much. Regarding image hosting that consume bandwidth you can check the link below on how to solve it.
http://www.randomterrain.com/web-design-hotlinking.html
October 25th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I wish all those content thieve go to hell
October 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
the valuable lesson i wish to have is the creativity, creativity is being better than yourself and nothing in this world is new, we cannot invent the wheel but we can reinvent the wheel, thanks
November 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
well, I think the most important is when people really use the creativity to catch the attention of everyone in any area….