Neowin Ripped!


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NeoBond said something about this recently. Basically that he cant do anything about it so as long as they give Neowin the credit, then thats fine. At least they're doing that :)

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I believe it is called vbbulletin. I have seen it in use lots of places. BTW. that site sucks. It needs a lot of work. I could have done better than that horrible mess. And they have 1% of our member population (115 members).

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Originally posted by karmakillernz

NeoBond said something about this recently. Basically that he cant do anything about it so as long as they give Neowin the credit, then thats fine. At least they're doing that :)

That's a plain stupid statement, they could do something but it would be costly, and I doubt they would.

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Originally posted by Goalie_CA

I believe it is called vbbulletin. I have seen it in use lots of places. BTW. that site sucks. It needs a lot of work. I could have done better than that horrible mess. And they have 1% of our member population (115 members).

It's not that they're using bBulletin, it's the fact they copied our design. If you notice, neowin's themeing is almost 100% our own material (minus smilies and some layout code in vB). So, this is quite a rip!

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Originally posted by PM5K

That's a plain stupid statement, they could do something but it would be costly, and I doubt they would.

Yes they could but I don't think they'd get very far. The second any pressure came on that site to change, they would. Personally, I don't see a problem anyway - it's a pretty crappy site :)

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Originally posted by timdorr

It's not that they're using bBulletin, it's the fact they copied our design. If you notice, neowin's themeing is almost 100% our own material (minus smilies and some layout code in vB). So, this is quite a rip!

It took me a long time to realise that the site used vB cos it is so well customised. I thought it was a custom script based on vB to start with.... :paranoid:

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They made a crappy rip off. Needs loads of work. I don't see why they can't come up with something original. They're probably not smart and creative enough.

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this site is a quite blatent copy of neowin. They do credit us, but im sure somewhere we have a statement that nothing may be used without consent from redmak or neobond. Just as long as they dont go copying any of the PHP code (that took me absolutly ages to do).

I have no idea what we can actually do against this, hopefully redmak or neobond will know more

tingle

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Originally posted by Tingle

this site is a quite blatent copy of neowin. They do credit us, but im sure somewhere we have a statement that nothing may be used without consent from redmak or neobond. Just as long as they dont go copying any of the PHP code (that took me absolutly ages to do).

I have no idea what we can actually do against this, hopefully redmak or neobond will know more

tingle

how can they copy the php? i dont think u can copy php code without access to the FTP..

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you cant but you never know lol. The way their system works i think is how we used ot have it, front page displays posts from a certain forum on the boards. Still should ask before they copy it

tingle

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