Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then what do you call this?
Thanks to Dave for the link.
UPDATE [09/08]: This arrived in my inbox a short while ago via luis@luisgarcia.com:
I took the site down and will have my redesign up this weekend (hopefully). There's no chance of me changing the green and black but all other aspects will be different. Make sure to tell all my fans and let them know I enjoyed the emails, it's been a fun one.
And there you have it. What a schmuck.
And also... I now own the Google search term onbeskof. Hah!
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Hmmm, I think I’d be more flattered if he referenced me for ripping off my design, or at least gave me a backlink!
The cheek.
blatant plagiarism.
you have no-one to blame but yourself for making such a nice design… no, seriously, i think that’s pretty low, especially because his content is nowhere as good as yours…
i don’t suppose you have submitted this design to the internets somewhere for people to download and use as they please?
Wow! that is fucking crazy! I cant believe some people! :(
Rip, but take it as a compliment. And D, a redesign wouldn’t hurt either ;)
If you’re steamed, lets all harrass him and give him sand dude!
I find it hilarious too, especially how he even ripped my copy!
If he is hotlinking your imagery, you can always do what one another designer did (he served up gay porn if your referrer was the site that was hotlinking). Eventually the guy got the drift when he got complaints of NSFW imagery. Even a picture of Georgie Bush would be amusing too :P
That’s a nice site :p
Wow, so I opened up the link from my RSS reader in an empty tab and forgot about it. I came back to it about 2 hours later to read, and I’m happily feeling like I’m reading the coda, when in fact I’m not…
Eish.
Busted – fire a rocket at the dude. Cheeky bugger.
Hehe, dig the green header image. The dude really *wants* to be you, clearly.
I agree with Jacques, just a pity he doesn’t seem to be hotlinking…
I DON’T believe you are going to stand for this!! That is blatant plagiarism and a crime!!! *stomps feet* Damien, react!! Or let us, your fan base… mwahahahahahahaaaaa!
haha g ;)
Well, he replied to my e-mail with an apology and is changing “his” site. Blind one.
Whoa, what a slacker! Forgot to rip the favicon, tsk tsk ;)
Wow! I thought it was the same site! jeez, he’s made no effort to hide it at all..
in his BIO he writes: I may not know everything about web development..(…) – yeah, but obviously he knows a lot about stealing web designs!
Crazy Texans…
oooh, major blind! What did you write to him, tell tell!! (fight fight fight!!) *imagines 2 geeks battling it out, hurling at each other and maybe a little and * ;)
How to know when you sh*t hot: someone rips not only your design inch by inch, but copies your copy and just changes personal info ;) I’m suprised he put his own name and country… LOL!
what happened to my comment?? it re-wrote itself cos I wanted to add some design elements in the form of brackets!!?? … oh well.. it WAS funny!!
The design is amazing – have you thought of releasing it to the public?
Too bad people can’t keep their hands to themselves and use it as inspiration rather than having to copy it so blatently.
Thanks Eli, yes I have (but not anytime soon!) ;)
Absolutely shocking! HA HA HA. The americans gots no skaam i tell ya, none! ONBESKOF if ever there was a word!
I say charge him, hehe ;)
LOL! Wheee!
Ian! don’t fuel the fire here… I’ve just stopped seeing my therapist about not matching up to his skills; now you want him to come out of design hibernation and out do his own brilliance??? “REDESIGN!” Grrr!!
Wow, thats just not cricket. Damien, have you tried to contact this Luis at all?
Ja ja… I know… I am a generic blogger… but what this dude did was nasty…
Shame on him… and he calls himself a Texan? Next minute he will be nicking the Big Whole or Table Mountain! Bloody Cheek! :-)
Just took a look at that link, haha, I really did enjoy a good laugh at that guys expense :)
Hehehe. This IS quite funny…
LOL. Freak.
oh. my. God.
LOL :)
Oh? He can’t change the Green and Black? Does he not claim to be a programmer?
What a wannabe… btw. with a surname of Garcia I think we can class him as a wannabe Texan as well… although some with his namesake claim Texas was stolen… :-)
Shutting up before some Mexican moers me like poor Twakkie…
So something good came from the whole experience then! You get to own the word “onbeskof”…..and to think the afrikaans boys in the office didnt know its spelled with a “n” and not a “m”…. ;)
haha yeah, thanks Sonja ;)
op-vok … I think thats a word this guy should know about!
wow, this guy really is a hack. Even on his ‘redesign’ he blantly rips off things like myspace
Notice the nearly identical format? (Myspace formats all its user details like so. He even uses the exact same wording….
No way! That’s so 1995…
How some people lack decency. Here is a site we send rip-off artists’ links when they copy us, its quite a nice place to visit too…
http://archive.pirated-sites.com/
Great site by the way.
Interesting site, had no idea it existed until I searched for “gay porn” on Google. Much talk about http://www.fpb.gov.za starting to “police” internet sites for pornography that involves children and how to stop it. I think they have bitten off a bit more than they can cope with.
If anyone has, and this isn’t SPAM, any LPs you want converted to CD, have a look at my website. Retrenched 5 years ago because of SA’s racist, genderist, etc., policies about white men over 40, so I have to do something…
lol, look what you did Jacques!
That’s quite sad really. I’m amazed somebody would do such a blatent rip off.
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31 July 2006
Ian09:50 am
Officially the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.