Timan Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 Looks like NEOWIN WAS RIPPED!!! NEOWIN RIPPED CLICK HERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 Look at this! http://trojanforge.net/about.php Now unless they got permission i'm speechless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 Sure does look like it. (If you look at the main page it looks even more like Neowin) At least he admits he took it from Neowin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 http://trojanforge.net/about.php they DO credit it, but still... Copying stuff directly is lame. People can make it look like it themselves, that's fine, but they shouldn't just copy stuff image for image. That's just lame.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krayzie15 Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 Neobond.... Are You Gonna Take That? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterbug Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 well like all good things get copied... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 Actually Tingle did alot of the work on the site as far as I know and Redmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 so sad but true ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakillernz Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 if thats true dont mind me *right clicks save as.. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterbug Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 Timan you gonna make it mac against pc again :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 yea, ok i'll remove that windows comment :p just had to make this exciting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 its cool they credited.... but they should have asked first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 I can't belive I almost clicked on the 'download trojan' button cos the list looked so familiar to the Neowin list... That site is dangerous.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakillernz Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 ya they're copycatting neowin but neowin's looks better tho :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted March 23, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2002 Yep, too bad the guy who made it has botched the job and has no sense of style. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tingle Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tingle Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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