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    • June 6, 2003 at 7:25 pm #706243
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      http://www.arch.ttu.edu/arc/grain_elevator/

    • June 6, 2003 at 9:56 pm #727448
      Anonymous
      Participant

      you’re messin Paul !? … what a rip off !!!

    • June 7, 2003 at 2:14 pm #727449
      ro_G
      Participant

      you should really take action Paul.

    • June 7, 2003 at 4:26 pm #727450
      ro_G
      Participant

      how goddam lazy – they didn’t even change the name of the picture in the top left hand panel. Hmmm … grain elevators- panel_paris – hmmm….

      ANyway, if you need your local Texas poster to do some hunting and random beating just let me know 😉

    • June 7, 2003 at 4:30 pm #727451
      ro_G
      Participant

      and frontpage left the links to hughpearman et al in the code!

      do them for copyright infringement I say. The faculty is involved so should be responsible.

    • June 9, 2003 at 8:50 am #727452
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Looks like they’ve been reading the “Plundering Code” section of the Rough Guide to the Internet, which encourages Web beginners to cut and paste bits of other people’s sites.

      But to import a complete design is outrageous, not to say lazy and stupid: the same system that allows such easy plundering also means they are easily traced.

      Bombard the faculty with complaints, I say.

    • June 9, 2003 at 9:21 am #727453
      Andrew Duffy
      Participant

      They’ve even stolen the javascript errors IE6 generates when you move the mouse over the left-hand menu…

    • June 9, 2003 at 9:33 am #727454
      GregF
      Participant

      Bleedin Robbers

    • June 9, 2003 at 11:10 am #727455
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Not a happy camper about this

      To Whom It May Concern

      I would like to draw your attention to the visual design of
      http://www.arch.ttu.edu/arc/grain_elevator/

      And its similarity to our website at
      https://archiseek.com/

      Not a co-incidence I’m sure you would agree when a quick glance at the HTML code shows that it still even includes the same names for the graphic files,

      I think this is disgraceful and a breach of the copyright on our design. I would expect better from an academic institution. How did you expect that we would not see this on the Internet?

      I am formally requesting this site to be removed or redesigned immediately.

      regards

      Paul Clerkin

    • June 9, 2003 at 11:33 am #727456
      Anonymous
      Participant

      keep us posted on what the snakes say in reply …

    • June 9, 2003 at 11:46 am #727457
      GregF
      Participant

      What’s that saying again ……’Imitation is the best form of flattery’

    • June 9, 2003 at 11:59 am #727458
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      or “theft is wrong”

    • June 9, 2003 at 1:10 pm #727459
      FIN
      Participant

      too true but it’s cool that they think so much of your design to copy it!!! still dirty thieving b**tards

    • June 9, 2003 at 2:35 pm #727460
      bluefoam
      Participant

      Why did you copy their site?

    • June 9, 2003 at 2:47 pm #727461
      d_d_dallas
      Participant

      They could have at least changed the colour scheme!!! That would have diverted attention for a bit at least before the wholesale code lifting was noticed.
      How was this site discoverd anyway?

    • June 9, 2003 at 3:04 pm #727462
      GregF
      Participant

      …..Would anyone want to employ the likes of these people in future…..I don’t think so, if they get up to this now.

    • June 9, 2003 at 4:02 pm #727463
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Mr. Clarkin,

      Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The website was under
      construction and the Architecture Research Center was not aware that it
      was available for viewing.

      The web-site will be removed immediately and the student involved in the
      development of the site will be dealt with accordingly.

      Texas Tech University has strict guidelines regarding plagiarism and
      would never publish information without prior approval.

      Please understand that the funding sponsors were in no way responsible
      for the site.

      Thank you again.

      Andrew Vernooy, Dean
      Elizabeth Louden, Associate Dean for Research

    • June 9, 2003 at 4:21 pm #727464
      urbanisto
      Participant

      Well thats a good result.

    • June 9, 2003 at 4:44 pm #727465
      FIN
      Participant

      indeed. poor student ….dumb ass!!!!

    • June 9, 2003 at 6:12 pm #727466
      bluefoam
      Participant

      If the guy understands enough to be able to rob somone elses site and change it slightly, surely he is capable of building his own site!?!

    • June 10, 2003 at 3:04 pm #727467
      PaulC
      Participant

      Well at least it is now sorted.
      We can laugh now I guess.

      By the way – how did you find out about it Paul?

      This sort of thing probably goes on all the time.

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