Website Ripoff
January 16th, 2008 by webgirl
Check this out. Website rip-off of cdeVision by Artfive - code, design, images, even text copy.
cdeVision Services page: www.cdevision.com/services.php
Artfive’s Services page: http://www.artfive.net/cms1/pages/fr/services.php
(this is live and linked from their home page)
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Is this your site? Just wondering, because a lot of sites might be bought through a template store…
It is possible to buy the (non exclusive) rights to use a web site template. Check out this kind of site: http://www.templateshunt.com/ and you will understand where those duplicates come from. There are also many designers offering free graphics or free web site templates. I wouldn’t call this a “website ripoff”…
Anyway I like your site and the idea it’s based on!
ArtFive has since altered their design, but they’re still using our stylesheet (complete with our name & info in it). It is not a template – it is our original design.
It was a complete ripoff, right down to images (which they re-colored), code and text copy. If you want to see what ArtFive’s site looked like before they changed it, see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratedsites