Designers BEWARE!

April 17th, 2004
GRR! There's another layout stealer in the loose. Makes me so ANGRY. :x I am a web/graphic designer...I'm freakin' going to school for this stuff...so I know how it feels to work hard and long on a great design/layout just to have it ripped off by some amateur kid who doesn't have enough morality or brains to think that they won't get caught. Try this girl: LayoUt_PrOdUctIonS She's stolen multiple..and I mean MULTIPLE layouts and designs from various sites, particularly this one: Simplexity! She uploads their graphics to a free hosting server and then copies all of the code in the source and just pastes it into her xanga entries and changing the copyright information! It's just so sickening I'm telling you! She even says stuff like "wow this layout took a whole week to make!" and crap like that. :x Like she really has any real design skills. If anyone tries to request something from her she'll just go rip it off another site. Click here for Simplexity's blacklisting of her. Layout designers beware! I'll take the time right now to plug a site that I just signed up to be a part of...its a pro-copyrights site that posts any thieves its members find on the web. We then will figure out a way to make them pay for what they did, usually by calling their host, even if its a free server, and forcing them to take it down. Here's the link: Are You Copyrighted? Please join and come help us battle the crime of stealing layouts, designs, and code.

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Moe Apr 17, 2004

I hate those aholes!! After we spend all the time making the sites someone steals it. It’s just not fair, I think they are worst than spammers!!

Melissa Apr 17, 2004

Moe - definitely right on…it just burns me when this happens. >:(

Branille Apr 17, 2004

wow, that’s so bad :( That’s why I have never given away layouts freely to strangers… too many people take advantage of the intangibility of digital works. That’s the problem with our major Mel babe.

Rikkye Apr 18, 2004

Yea, : ( but it’s okay now, she removed them, and even plan to close down her site. Even though, what she did was wrong, I can’t help but feeling a little bit sorry for her. …. You got a nice Place here ^_^

Ayumi-hee Jul 26, 2004

well.. it happens when u freely give things away online. Welcome to the world of the World Wide Web! Anyone can be a poser.