Should we be happy that people are stealing our work?

Posted Friday, 19 May, 2006 by Amran | permalink

It is a real big surprise to find out that someone has stolen our design. I don't know if we should be happy, angry or sad. I mean, it does not only look similar, the background image, the header, the keywords and even the CSS file were the exact same ones ripped from ours!

Exhibit A: Spina Marketing (http://www.spinamarketing.com/index_1.html)
We were informed by our visitors that they have changed their URL to (http://www.spinamarketing.com/index_new.html). Well consider changing the design!

The design they have ripped is our design for our old site:

Exhibit B: http://old.thepixelage.com

While we might get inspired by other people's designs, simply ripping off others' works is way too low to go! Much worse when the culprit happens to claim to be a WEB DESIGN COMPANY! If things get too desperate and you sorely need to rip off a design, I'd think at least the smart way is to change parts and filenames. So imagine our horror when the CSS file was still named "thepixelage.css". Classic. [Update: It seems they have now changed the filename of their CSS file to "spina_style.css".]