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At the bottom of the page it says

Сайт является русским аналогом известного за рубежом сайта www.neowin.net
Which probably means something like "this site is not affiliated with www.neowin.net..."

Classic Rippoffs' excuse :angry:

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i did a babel translation of

Сайт является русским аналогом известного за рубежом сайта www.neowin.net
which turns out to be
Site is the Russian analog of the site www.neowin.net known abroad

curious eh?

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"Сайт является русским аналогом известного за рубежом сайта www.neowin.net" is the Credit to Neowin.net for the design. The content on the site is different and fully sourced. I don't think that these "w*nkers" are trying to cause any competition or harm to Neowin.... FFS it's in Russian- How can they?

It would of been better for them to make their own design or get permission, but at least it's credited at the bottom, and it should be treated as an honour to Neowin because we are such an inspiration instead of being so quick to flame :laugh:

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fair enough i suppose... just seemed like they were ripping it off...

even so, surely they should ask, rather than just copy and give credit? or not? i really don't know what the ethics of this are... :unsure:

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For all the people that are getting ****ed off, do you have similar feelings when you're downloading mp3's or pirating software? For the ones who dont pirate and download music, you have a right to be against it, but for everyone else, stop trying to be a hypocrite, please. It's not the 'Russians,'(directed at wzoo) they're just people, so dont gerneralize. K I guess I'm done.

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I guess I sort of agree with you on that Blodia, but when I pirate stuff, I'm not calling it my own.

and neither are these guys. they credit neowin at the bottom of the page, so Blodia is right.

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I was just going to mention this blodia but yuo beat me to it.

I mean first of all you can't blame the russions for this, Russia has a huge population and this are maybe 3 guys who ripped the design.

Secondly, ripping and mp3 downloading is different but please if you do download mp3 you have no rights to swear at these guys. :)

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posting the link in a forum with over 40,000 people will only give the site more visitors
Most of the which will never come back because they don't understand the language :p

And just because they creditted it it doesn't mean it's fine. They use exactly the same design, the same name, the same logo, a popularity many people tried hard to achieve. Just because some of neowin.net's users download mp3s it doesn't make it right :rolleyes:

And I agree with the others: it's just stupid to blame "the russians". People are people and humans tend to copy good things. This case is extreme. But it's not because they are russians...

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At the bottom of the page it saysWhich probably means something like "this site is not affiliated with www.neowin.net..."

Classic Rippoffs' excuse :angry:

"The site is Russian analogue of a site known abroad"

Translation

Cody

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:rolleyes: Copyrights extend at least 75 years after the printed date, so it does not matter if Neowin lists 2003 or 2004.

And why is everyone assuming that the Russian Neowin version was done without permission ? You should ask Neobond about it. I really doubt this is just a rip-off.

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