{"id":1183,"date":"2009-12-15T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-12-14T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:50:08","slug":"copycats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/12\/15\/copycats\/","title":{"rendered":"Copycats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plurk.com\/2009\/12\/14\/microsoft-rips-plurk\/\">Microsoft China\u00c2\u00a0blatantly\u00c2\u00a0copied Plurk<\/a>. A similar message used to appear on web design forums at least monthly. People sought advice how to handle such situations. Plurk seems to be in the same state.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a young startup, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stunned, shocked, and unsure what to do next and need your support and suggestions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The recent, popular advice seems to have not changed over the decade with the exception of sending a DMCA take down notice. From <a href=\"http:\/\/onwired.com\/blog\/dealing-with-design-theft\/\">OnWired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Contact the offending party.<\/li>\n<li>Contact the offending party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hosting company.<\/li>\n<li>Issue a formal DMCA takedown notice.<\/li>\n<li>Get your attorney involved. (It would be interesting to go to a lawyer about a site in China.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At least the word is out about <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sitepoint.com\/article\/dont-disable-right-click\">not disabling the right click button<\/a>! Watermarks really are the better solution for images. Points to any of you who remember how I helped Mojan with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/03\/19\/tale-of-defeating-the-crazy-woman\/\">blocking images from being saved<\/a> off her site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft China\u00c2\u00a0blatantly\u00c2\u00a0copied Plurk. A similar message used to appear on web design forums at least monthly. People sought advice how to handle such situations. Plurk seems to be in the same state. As a young startup, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stunned, shocked, and unsure what to do next and need your support and suggestions. The recent, popular advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rUBW-copycats","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}