Byemobile.com - A Stolen, copy-paste website
August 30, 10 by BharaniI am grappling with a strange issue. Some guy from Spain called Javier Castilla has stolen the site design of our website 91mobiles.com and apparently populating the site with clear-cut site-scraping again from our site (without adding any value whatsoever).
It’s been 9 months since we launched 91mobiles and we took the services of a professional freelance designer to design the site from scratch. Anyone who have checked out 91mobiles.com can vouch for that.
Look at the screenshot of byemobile.com. Though he has done a shabby work of copy-pasting, it will be obvious in the first look that the site is a copy-paste of 91mobiles.com.
The domain has been created on 3rd August 2010! Just 23 days old Whoa! Check out the proof yourself. http://whois.domaintools.com/byemobile.com. No denying there!
Obviously I am not happy that a spanish guy is copying from Indian website. I am pissed off with him. I have written a warning mail to him and asked him to change the design. No response yet. There is only one way left now. Filing a DMCA Complaint with google and the web hosting provider. It’s a long procedure. But filing a DMCA complaint will definitely yield results even it happens little late.
Any other suggestions on how to tackle this issue? Is this worth chasing this guy?
Update: He has changed the design now.
srini Says: 08.09.10 at 9:23 am
bharani
one of my close friends is a leading copyright and patent lawyer practicing out of chennai. I can pass on his contact no. if interested.
cheers
srini
Bharani Says: 09.09.10 at 10:53 am
Hi Srini, thanks for the reference. The person responded by changing the design and scraping. Fortunately, it worked out without having to resort to other procedures. How are you? We should meet sometime.
srini Says: 16.09.10 at 9:45 am
good to know you did not have to worry about this long.
your response to my comment did not trigger an email notification …i happened to come across it now when i checked ur blog.
it will be good if u can add an email notification to message thread postings.
am in bangalore ..let me know when you travel here and we can catch up.