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Our website design was stolen

by esamek on 4/9/13, 12:04 PM with 20 comments

• by rtehfm on 4/9/13, 1:13 PM

  I work in the security/abuse department for one of the largest web hosting companies in the world and we see these types of complaints regularly. The best way to go about this would be to email the abuse@ email for the IP which is abuse@pronethosting.net. If you can't get a hold of them that way, contact the colocation company directly. Their website is http://www.cyberverse.com/.

  You can find out more about this process at:

  http://rising.blackstar.com/how-to-send-a-dmca-takedown-noti...

  Network Information:

  DNS Zone source: http://leafdns.com/index.cgi?testid=329C603D DNS Zone source: http://www.intodns.com/themattressboutique.com IP WHOIS: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-151-224-224-1/pft

  Let me know if you need any other information.

• by jwcrux on 4/9/13, 1:50 PM

  Also, they are hotlinking to some images you are hosting.

  You can have fun with this by changing the image to something "not ideal".

• by jedimike on 4/9/13, 1:12 PM

  Now I'm not one to promote petty revenge (unless it's VERY amusing), but there are a few scripts and images that they're loading from the hellowallet.com servers, and from filostudios.com, who I presume did your design.

  If someone were to change these files, they could dramatically alter the look and behaviour of themattressboutique.com quite easily...

• by mromanuk on 4/9/13, 1:00 PM

  Probably they are Picasso followers "good artists copy but great artists steal"

  Blatant copy by the way...

• by BSousa on 4/9/13, 12:37 PM

  No idea what plan you will pursue, but try and contacting the company first.

  This isn't the first time I see something like this, where the infringing company outsourced the design or even bought a design from ThemeForest like site and had no idea they were infringing.

• by jordigh on 4/9/13, 12:59 PM

  I hope you alert the authorities about this theft so that you can quickly recover your stolen property. Is your business being impacted in the meantime due to your deprivation of this property? Do you have a backup design you can use until you recover the stolen one?

• by renbyrd on 4/9/13, 4:37 PM

  Filo Studios is indeed the design company that created the site. You can see that they were hosting the dev version here: http://filostudios.com/websample/.

• by kris121 on 4/9/13, 2:08 PM

  you should send a mail to department of abuse to hosting company where they copycat monkey have host their site.

  i have experience with a image copy and here is a solution we made ;-

  if their is too many people have stole or hotlinking the image from your server then change the image to 'this image is stolen and something lorem ipsum'. change the image to another name and update it on pages where you have used them.

  this way you can show on the people site that they hosted something illegal. tough but solid way.

• by somid3 on 4/9/13, 12:39 PM

  Shugs, that is terrible. I would contact them company directly and let them know. Could be that they used a separate web-design company who is to be blamed

• by musiic703 on 4/9/13, 6:59 PM

  Esamek, I was wondering if you can contact me by email. I have a few questions.

  Ruben.leija@me.com

• by notjustanymike on 4/9/13, 2:07 PM

  Putting a single document.write(""); in one of your script files should solve this pretty quickly...

• by jwcrux on 4/9/13, 1:49 PM

  Should be pretty obvious... they have hellowallet references in the page source.

• by ante_annum on 4/16/13, 6:12 PM

  Cuurently `en constracion`. Looks like your takedown worked.

• by anons2011 on 4/9/13, 3:47 PM

  They've even got your GA code in the source!