Myspace Layout Stolen, effing loser can't make his own layout Options

[--DANNY--]

I was looking at the detailed visitor stats for my website (DannyDahl.com) and I noticed a large amount of hits from a myspace profile. Upon visiting the profile I see some mexican guy's face and text plastered all over my layout. He even used the same wording for each section on the profile. Same exact code... exactly the same.
He used a different picture of his face and slightly changed the background.

looking at the code of the profile, I see img references to like 10 images that are on my profile and hosted on my website.
my freaking Trakzor and cbtracker images are even on there! (that explains why i thought i had a million stalkers from new york all of the sudden)

aaaanyways, I'm pissed.
So before emailing him asking him politely... eff that shite this biznitch is even using this for his design myspace, showing off his work he's designed... he probably didn't do any of it.
so instead of messaging him, i sent an email to the Copyright Infringement staff of Myspace asking that all of the content be removed from the offender's profile, along with the deletion of his account if possible because I will not tolerate plagurisim.

If myspace staff is unhelpful, I'll probably try to screw over the bandwidth of his freewebs account that is hosting the 2 images that are his on the profile, and once that's done, then send him legally threatening email.

I'd link to the profile, but I don't want anyone tipping this mexican bastard off before myspace sees the profile.


Anyone else deal with this before? what did you do?

[MissHygienic]

While I don't condone plagiarism and I'm all about intellectual property, this is MySpace. It's a teeny-bopper, social networking website. I think these, "OH MY GOD, HE STOLE MY LAYOUT, I WANT HIM DEAD AND HIS ACCOUNT DELETED" reactions are a bit much, and he is not doing it for a profit. You take all of your energy to report him to the staff to get his account deleted, but he can make another account again under a different name? You think you have it taken care of, but you have no idea.

I've dealt with this type of stuff before, but not with MySpace layouts. You learn to live and deal with it. Anything you post on the internet can be stolen. You think people are actually respectful enough under an entirely anonymous name?

[michellerrific]

I think I'm going to agree a bit about what MissHygienic said. I mean, it's not like you have patents for your layouts. They may be high quality professional designs, but if they're not really under legal government copyrights, or whatever it is called, then all your stuff is at risk, and there's no use in complaining to any sort of authority. There's plagiarisms and 'jocking' all over the place online. You just have to deal with idiots who spend their lives doing this.

[Kontroll]

Fully agree with MissDouche up there.

[Marlons]

Damn you jockers, we can't even stop them, oh well like stated, you put up stuff on the internet at your own risk, anything can be stolen.

[--DANNY--]

I realize that there will always be douches out there who will steal it if they can.

But this guy is using this layout on his profile that is displaying his design talent. He even said that he created the layout and has full copyright ownership. He even said something along the lines of "DON'T TRY TO STEAL MY CODE BECAUSE IT'S TOO DIFFICULT! TRUST ME!"

So if taking 20 minutes of my time which I would have spent doing absolutely nothing while listening to music in boredom, to report him and have possibly have to lose his account is well worth it to me.

that AND he has the images for a couple different trackers i use, including one i made that is hosted on my website, on his page so it has been screwing things up for a while now.

Basically... it's kinda like the people who illegally download movies and music... they get one DMCA notice from their ISP and they freak out and get scared... they won't be downloading movies/music for a long time at the least.
So if this guy gets an email from MySpace's legal copyright infringement department... it'll probably scare him into not repeating that mistake.

in my opinion, telling people to just deal with it because it happens... is kinda like telling someone who lives in a bad part of New York to just deal with their house being broken into or their car being vandalized because well.. it happens and stupid people will always do it.

[michellerrific]

He's not the only jocker who's said "don't steal my codes". Really, they all say that because that's who they are. There are SO many people out there doing the EXACT same things and no one can stop every single one of them. You could do your best to report it but you can't guarantee that something will be done.

[Kontroll]

But this guy is using this layout on his profile that is displaying his design talent. He even said that he created the layout and has full copyright ownership. He even said something along the lines of "DON'T TRY TO STEAL MY CODE BECAUSE IT'S TOO DIFFICULT! TRUST ME!"

Yeah, and it's probably going to bite him in the ass later on. Relax.

ZOINX!

[pandora]

so uh why does it matter that he is mexican?

[--DANNY--]

so uh why does it matter that he is mexican?

It doesn't.
It probably doesn't matter that he is male either. Should I have censored his gender also?
I wasn't using it in a derogatory way or as an insult.

[MissHygienic]

So if this guy gets an email from MySpace's legal copyright infringement department... it'll probably scare him into not repeating that mistake.

I find that the people who are most passionate about others stealing their layouts are also the most naive. You can't make the assumption that he's going to not repeat the same things. These people think nothing of plagiarism, so they will continue to steal. You really think he's going to get sued over a few MySpace layouts?

I'm not saying this to criticize you, but to tell you to slow your role the next time it happens. It's not worth getting worked up and writing paragraphs about the situation. There are probably over five people who have stolen your layouts and claimed them as your own work, you just don't know about it.

[Elba]

so uh why does it matter that he is mexican?

Forreals

[Elba]

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OMG TUNG HIHI

[pandora]

i dont think he's saying that he doesnt expect this to happen a lot and sometimes by the same people over and over. all designers actually expect it to happen a lot. that doesnt mean that they should be okay with it or that they should just roll over and let it happen

that's like saying "well people get killed on the streets all the time, so you shouldnt make such a big deal about it"

[--DANNY--]

You really think he's going to get sued over a few MySpace layouts?

I know he isn't going to be sued.
It just sucks to see my work on someone's page and them claiming ownership of it.
So if it can be removed by emailing myspace staff... why not?
And with how he put it together.. he didn't even remove code for parts he took out or remove code for the images for my tracker or for preloading the images for my friend rollovers, it obviously wasn't easy for him to steal it. Meaning if he doesn't have a backup of the code, he'll have to start all over.. probably something he wouldn't be willing to do.

But if you got caught for downloading a pirated movie... and you were to download more in the future, would you download them from the same site? probably not. so this guy probably wont steal a profile from me at least in the future.

[transcendentalis...]

i would check out creative commons licensing if i were you. i haven't ever used it or felt the need to, nor do i know enough about the licenses to say "yeah, of course you can use this!", but i skimmed through their faq and it seems pretty legit.

google it?

[--DANNY--]

that's like saying "well people get killed on the streets all the time, so you shouldnt make such a big deal about it"

my thoughts exactly lol

[MissHygienic]

The fine line here is that you can't compare MySpace layouts to not caring about freak accidents on the road or pirating. It is against the law to pirate movies, and it is also against the law to infringe a copyright, but when it comes to MySpace and you are providing the layouts for the public, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

In the future, I couldn't give a rat's ass what you do, but from your reaction here, well, it seemed as if you were shocked that it happened.

[brooklyneast05]

hey whitney


good luck getting revenge for the layout sir

[--DANNY--]

i would check out creative commons licensing if i were you.

All I know is that according to the terms of Copyright...

"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright."

So I legally claimed copyright over the material on my profile when I created it.

This guy also did the same, which is illegal.

And from what I understand about the CC licensing, if something is labeled under CC as all rights reserved or not stated what rights are reserved at all, then if the content is reproduced, the original owner must be given credit... I think.

[pandora]

The fine line here is that you can't compare MySpace layouts to not caring about freak accidents on the road or pirating. It is against the law to pirate movies, and it is also against the law to infringe a copyright, but when it comes to MySpace and you are providing the layouts for the public, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

In the future, I couldn't give a rat's ass what you do, but from your reaction here, well, it seemed as if you were shocked that it happened.

it doesnt matter if its myspace. i dont understand why the fact that its on myspace even matters to you.

[pandora]

sorry for double posting here.

i've had a lot of my layouts stolen. once i had my myspace layout stolen even though there was a vector i made of myself on it... and ykow what? it's gratifying in some ways. people are so jealous of you that they have to take your work in order to feel like they're on the same level with you.

and it's even MORE gratifying when you get all your friends to bitch them out and spam their comments/guestbooks/whatever and totally put them on blast, because then they have no choice but to take the layout down and then their site automatically has this bad reputation. it's REALLY funny when their own friends are like "wtf did you do?"

[jaeman]

Just imagine how song artists feel when you fill your iPod's playlist up for free.

[--DANNY--]

Just imagine how song artists feel when you fill your iPod's playlist up for free.

song artists get paid millions of dollars. That's hardly comparable lol :P
but your point is seen.

[jaeman]

song artists get paid millions of dollars. That's hardly comparable lol :P
but your point is seen.

I know, I made an attempt.