Jan 24
2010

Being digitally robbed

00:45, published in category: design, law, misc

I was very angry today. I found out that a Mexican web Agency Smart2Web ripped of my portfolio page and named it Enchulame Misitio (the website is offline at this time). Actually, a Twitter user discovered that my site has been plagiarized, and started to tweet about it.

They didn’t just stole the concept or minor graphic parts, but made an exact copy of it, including some of the texts and parts of the client list. Yes, they left some clients in the portfolio section, as their own. I wrote an email to the publisher of Echulame Misitio immediately. Surprisingly, I’ve got an answer and the site was removed very quickly.

I’ve made some screen shots:

Copy of Morphix Design Studio

Copy of Morphix Design Studio

The thing is, it wasn’t the first time. A month ago, a guy from India made an almost exact copy of it, with his own logo on it. After sending him an email, the site was offline in a few hours.

However, I’m still happy that my site has been an inspiration for other designers. I know that the concept of it isn’t really new and that there are bunch of websites using the same concept of navigation, but I still get a lot of positive response from visitors.

À propos… my new blog was Site of the day on The CSS Awards.

Comments

Jonathan Alvarez, 24. January 2010, ob 22:32:

Los plagios son tan comunes en Internet: http://highendmagazine.com/2010/01/24/plagios-creativos-20/

PLAGIOS CREATIVOS | HIGHEND TECH+STYLE, 25. January 2010, ob 05:58:

[...] Vidovič de la empresa Morphix confirmaba que el sitio de Smart2Web “estaba plagiando” (hay un blog post sobre esto) Nosotros intentamos mantener la comunicación con el CEO de Smart2Web y simple y sencillamente [...]

HIGHEND MAGAZINE AMENAZADO POR DECIR LA VERDAD | HIGHEND TECH+STYLE, 25. January 2010, ob 05:59:

[...] blog post y terminen analizando el tema, cuando existe una confirmación del CEO de la agencia afectada diciendo que fue un “robo”, no lo dije yo, por eso todos los sitios están enlazados en el artículo [...]

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Edw, 25. January 2010, ob 16:57:

Your first page cannot adapt IE6.0… Why don’t you fix it.

Tweets that mention Being digitally robbed | Morphix Blog -- Topsy.com, 25. January 2010, ob 20:23:

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jorge Montoya, Jonathan Alvarez , Jonathan Alvarez , Eduardo Reveles, Manny George and others. Manny George said: ja! @antoniotrejo va demandar a todo internet por mencionar su plagio http://bit.ly/6IoMon http://bit.ly/4EWQq3 http://bit.ly/8js9rX #FAIL [...]

Morphix, 25. January 2010, ob 22:30:

@Edw: I tried two different IE6 PNG Fixes for the transparency and they didn’t work well :( Only 2 percent of my visitors are using IE 6… I know it’s not fair to ignore them, but I admit I haven’t found the time to fix this IE6 issue. I appologize for those who are still using IE6.

uberVU - social comments, 25. January 2010, ob 23:11:

Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by jonathanalvarez: @rafael_j este es el caso dude: http://blog.morphix.si/2010/misc/being-digitally-robbed/...

Morphix, 30. January 2010, ob 10:59:

@Edw… Google will not care about IE6 any more: http://bit.ly/dsJW94

Rams, 24. February 2010, ob 03:52:

Hey ive been surfing around and found youre work and I must say im impressed. Way to go man, youve been bookmarked. (: Me as a beginner feel like i can learn a lot from you. Keep it up man.

o btw, how can you see that only 2% uses IE6?
thanks

Morphix, 24. February 2010, ob 08:38:

And here we go again: http://www.mindvision.co.in/

Morphix, 24. February 2010, ob 08:39:

@Rams: Google Analytics

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