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Ask YC: What to do when someone copies your text?

10 pointsby inovicaover 16 years ago
Hi there. They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery. We've just found a competitor (with a nicely designed site) who has taken our text and only slightly re-worded it. Most of it still reads the same as our site and I recognized it as it as it reads just like I write :) To be honest, they've created a good sales site (and I have no issues with competition) but its annoying that they couldn't think up their own ideas for their FAQs or text. Just curious to see what people here would suggest or do I just ignore it and push our own product/site as much as possible.?

4 comments

pgover 16 years ago
What we did was ignore it. It's annoying, but (a) there is not much you can do and (b) someone who has to copy your site is probably not that much of a threat.
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patio11over 16 years ago
Absolutely nothing.<p>You are one paragraph of time in the hole on this already, but don't throw good time after bad. Every additional quanta of time spent on worrying about this or implementing (ineffective) solutions is time you are not using to make money.
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gtaniover 16 years ago
<a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/how-to-prevent-hijackers-from-ripping-off-your-website/" rel="nofollow">http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/how-to-pre...</a>
RobGRover 16 years ago
Since they have a good design, steal it.