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33 pointsby mwetzlerabout 12 years ago

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mwetzlerabout 12 years ago
One of our customers just alerted us to this copycat website. We view it as a really nice compliment to our designer, Micah Wolfe! I love the comment someone left in their feedback "an original website". <a href="https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggestions/3784097-an-original-website" rel="nofollow">https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggesti...</a>
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TeMPOraLabout 12 years ago
Reminds me of kids in secondary school who copy their homework directly from Wikipedia and then forget (or don't know how) to remove formatting and hyperlinks, bringing to their teachers printouts full of blue, underlined text.<p>If copy-pasting without leaving such obvious traces of it is such a difficult thing for people, then our civilization is doomed.
nabarajabout 12 years ago
Yes the design looks similar but it looks like just a UI copy. The styling, scripts are pretty much different.<p>Fun fact:<p>keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454<p>recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228
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adnamabout 12 years ago
I'd definitely fork that
dkadorabout 12 years ago
I like how they're linking directly to the keen S3 bucket that hosts google prettify's CSS.
DanBCabout 12 years ago
There used to be a great website for this kind of thing (<a href="http://pirated-sites.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pirated-sites.com/</a>), but it's unfortunately dead.<p>Maybe that's a nice project for someone else?
archivatorabout 12 years ago
It looks completely different now: <a href="http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7ab14e99.png" rel="nofollow">http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7...</a>
dangrossmanabout 12 years ago
They're hosted on EC2 (or some platform running on EC2). I wonder with what granularity Amazon responds to DMCA notices? Do they terminate the instance, delete the AMI, suspend the account?
dreenabout 12 years ago
meh, its just a bunch a rules in css and some simple images. its more a question of fashion rather than intellectual property.
mwetzlerabout 12 years ago
hmm... seems recom.io took down their site now
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jayfuerstenbergabout 12 years ago
At least change the background colors.
gdi2290about 12 years ago
comment.insert(-1, "great minds think alike")