Pirates strike online
Swashbuckling is an activity normally carried out on the high seas.
But piracy is as rife as ever online.
Notice anything familiar about these screenshots?
You’d be forgiven for thinking someone had got their hands on our carefully crafted creations but unfortunately, that’s not the case.
After a quick trawl of the Internet, our research revealed there are plenty of websites out there imitating both our www.dpivision.com and www.cannybill.com.
It’s just a good job we’re all flattered by it here!
dpivision.com Ltd – Original
Pirate Site 1
Now this person really hasn’t bothered to change very much at all!
Pirate Site 2
And again, another company taking our design and just adding their logo but worst of all, doing a terrible job of it!
CannyBill – Original Site
Pirate Site 1
Well again not much effort has been put in to change our original design. They’ve changed the logo and some text but that’s about it!
Pirate Site 2
Well this is not a pirate site as such, just someone taking our CannyBill and Tradingeye sites and featuring them in their own portfolio!
Tags: CannyBill, dpivision, pirate sites
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October 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
As Picasso said “Good artists copy, great artists steal” but if your going to steal you have to at least make it convincing. Rather than just stick a different logo on.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest.
December 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
That is shameless. How did you manage to come across these? Did someone give you a heads up, or are there tools that trawl the web for ripoff sites?
December 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
We actually found out about them via our web stats. The sites in question (when first put up anyway) had references to our stylesheet and images. With one of the dpivision site rip off we got alerted from someone as they knew of our original site from the many design galleries it got featured in.