Legal Issues Have your website ever been copied by anyone?

[Heatman]

Running a website is an open project which anyone interested and with the knowledge can get it freely without any questions. This makes it possible for websites to be copied by lazy people.

Some owners wouldn't have any problem with this but some people would definitely take it seriously and seek for ways to bring down the website or have them make serious changes.

What would you do if your website is copied/cloned 100%?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

A few times.

I just send a cease and desist email. If nothing happens, I send it to the hosting service and domain registrar.

Usually it gets removed.

If it's out of the country, there isn't a whole lot I can do.

 

[Heatman]

A few times.

I just send a cease and desist email. If nothing happens, I send it to the hosting service and domain registrar.

Usually it gets removed.

If it's out of the country, there isn't a whole lot I can do.

I'm not against being inspired by the work of another person and wanting to do something similar to what they have done but it's pure madness when out of laziness their work gets copied exactly down to the smallest detail, with nothing changed or missing.