June 29, 2004
Web design piracy for dummies.
Every once in a swoop, some upstart codepunk decides to lift a chunk or two of my site for their own devices. While this kind of thing is mildly annoying on several levels, it really doesn’t twist my knickers all that much. What boggles me beyond believe is when ridiculously obvious pieces of my site are reproduced verbatim. It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again. The latest knob to snarf some taggage is donut.foxed.ca. The skin-deep similarities are fairly innocuous. But once you dig a bit deeper and stumble across something like the 404 page (a screen grab of the page is archived here), you start experiencing a bit more contextual déjà vu. Hello? Wouldn’t it make sense to have your error page point back to your own home page? Yeesh. Kids these days.
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