Guest mathiaus Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Some idiots been spamming one of the forums I work on. He's been posting links to scriptjava.freehostia.com which I've noticed looks a lot like w3schools.I couldn't find a general contact email on your site, so thought I'd let you know about it here.Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 That's pretty funny. I like how he uses the exact same banner, with the same tagline and everything, but changes it to say "Grow Computer" (?) in a font and color that doesn't match anything else on the page. The video game gif is a nice touch also.There are some things you can do about this other than contacting the owners. His domain is hosted at freehostia. Looking over the terms of service for freehostia accounts, one of the restrictions says that you can't post copyrighted material owned by others without permission. Freehostia has a contact form, so I sent them a note to let them know that the content of scriptjava.freehostia.com is an unlicensed reproduction of the content at w3schools.com.Also on his site near the bottom he has this:Copyright © 2007-2008, www.ScriptJava.co.nr All rights reserved.I went over to scriptjava.co.nr and there's nothing there, it showed a page that helpfully indicated that I could register this free domain. So I did, and I pointed it to w3schools.com. Anyway, there are things you can do yourself that are probably more effective, and definately more amusing, than just alerting the owners, even though that helps also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Copyright © 2007-2008, www.ScriptJava.co.nr All rights reserved.I went over to scriptjava.co.nr and there's nothing there, it showed a page that helpfully indicated that I could register this free domain. So I did, and I pointed it to w3schools.com.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23.12.2012 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Also, The Best Things in Life are Free is the opensource project's motto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Best Things in Life are FreeIsn't it just? Apart from disease and warfare that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspnetguy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 That's pretty funny. I like how he uses the exact same banner, with the same tagline and everything, but changes it to say "Grow Computer" (?) in a font and color that doesn't match anything else on the page. The video game gif is a nice touch also.There are some things you can do about this other than contacting the owners. His domain is hosted at freehostia. Looking over the terms of service for freehostia accounts, one of the restrictions says that you can't post copyrighted material owned by others without permission. Freehostia has a contact form, so I sent them a note to let them know that the content of scriptjava.freehostia.com is an unlicensed reproduction of the content at w3schools.com.Also on his site near the bottom he has this:Copyright © 2007-2008, www.ScriptJava.co.nr All rights reserved.I went over to scriptjava.co.nr and there's nothing there, it showed a page that helpfully indicated that I could register this free domain. So I did, and I pointed it to w3schools.com. Anyway, there are things you can do yourself that are probably more effective, and definately more amusing, than just alerting the owners, even though that helps also.That is very amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC5 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 do i hear a LAWSUIT =d??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23.12.2012 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I don't think that they will go that far. Many of those who are studying web design/development have heard of W3Schools, and they will recognize the layout immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I don't understand though, why all that effort.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonig Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 That is the best retaliation I've ever seen 'justsomeguy'.I actually laughed out loud from the registering it. Thats just great. Top notch touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I don't understand though, why all that effort..Cause it's easier to copy and paste and put some Google ads up then it is to do any actual research or work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 True but I mean there isn't a huge gain surely? >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspnetguy Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 True but I mean there isn't a huge gain surely? >_>That depends on if you consider money to be a huge gain. In this particular case I doubt they are getting much traffic or anything, it all depends on how well they know how to promote their site, but there are tonnes of sites out there that are nothing more than stlen content that make money from AdSense or some other program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC5 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 what other ways are there to make money besides google adsense and adwords? cuz im nearing the end of my webpage and all i have up there is ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Paid subscriptions, premium content, selling things (?), other types of ads (like term sponsorships). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC5 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 well yea selling things hmm good ideas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Well to be honest anyone in their right mind who knows of w3schools would know the difference anyway I'm sure. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xalor Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 I don't see that anymore, maybe he got banned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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