Steam Is Coming Out of My Ears
Joelle said around mid-morning on August 27, 2007
I am so sick of people stealing our work and trying to pass it off as their own. This has happened since the day we launched our first design and I discover or am informed about at least one new rip-off artist per week. I appreciate that our work is admired. I really do. But, and I mean this with as much grace as I can manage, go learn how to do it yourself and get your grubby goddamn paws off our work.
Cripes! I just don’t get that audacity of some people. This schmuck in… Asia, somewhere… every single design in his portfolio is ours. All are mine, one is Kathy‘s. Seriously, WHAT the hell? He’s peddling his talents with OUR work? What happens when the people go view those websites and see OUR credit at the bottom, huh?
For some reason, we have the highest amount of thieves from Malaysia and Brazil. I don’t know what that’s about. I suppose they just think they won’t get caught. How could anyone claim to be a web designer and then NOT know that the internet is… well, a net? I can see you, hi. *waves* There are these things called referrals and guess what? They’re world-wide.
I tried to contact him through his website, but I couldn’t. It didn’t allow an area for comments, but I left a comment on his blog (and also just sent an email to his Hotmail address). Hopefully that will shake some sense into him.
Damn, what in the hell is wrong with people? What? Why can’t people just be decent? I can’t believe anyone who would look at his website and the work he’s done and think it was done by the same person. Nice use of Papyrus, asshole. Welcome to 2007.
I am so irritated. Most of the time, I just let it roll off. I chalk it up to ignorance when someone takes a design and uses it on their own blog. But when someone is trying to run a business, representing themselves with work that I busted my tuchus over… I feel like Madeline Kahn in Clue.
“I hated her, so much… That… it… it… flame...flames. Flames, on the side of my face, heaving… breathless, heaving breaths. Heaving breaths… ”
Moxie Design Studios™
dude that sucks, people are total assholes these days...online and off. hope that you can get this guy to take them down, people like him are total wannabes who when they can’t do something, they just go and steal. its pretty pathetic.
from Michigan
People effing suck, dude. Seriously. I can’t imagine how frustrating that is!
But thank you for ending with the best quote EVER! I say that line all the time. Classic!
from Virginia Beach, VA • Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
“Nice use of Papyrus, asshole. Welcome to 2007”
HAHAHA!
from Dallas, TX
SURELY the people looking at his site will be able to figure out that whoever did the pages listed in his portfolio is obviously not the same person who designed *his* business site? Right? Maybe?
But yeah, that totally sucks. Hopefully your attempts to contact him will scare him enough to take them off his site.
He should also maybe hire someone to help him with the English language. I found several grammar errors on his site. Jackhole.
from Chicago
The dumbass still has your credits on one of them.
What a dick.
from I live where an oxygen mask is currently required
People suck. They just do. We have the same issue with books and when it takes place overseas it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack to actually find the source to take it down! Love that the toolshed LEFT your credit on them..ugh.
from san diego • Cocktail: margarita
okay, i cannot believe you quoted clue… and of all quotes, THAT ONE! Hahahahahah! I love that line too! sorry ‘bout the theft.
from Aurora, CO • Cocktail: Strawberry Daquiri
I’d say that’s unbelievable that someone would do that, but unfortunately I do believe it. What a crook. I usually don’t wish ill on people, but I hope his johnson shrivels up and falls off.
from hell
can you contact his clients through their websites? i’m sure they paid him a pretty penny and i know i would hate to pay someone who didn’t do the work, let alone charged for “hours and hours of hard work”. they got ripped off too and should be pissed.
And his portfolio clients? Um...I just saw...he kept the credits of Moxie on them.
BUWHWHAHAHAAHAHAHAH what a maroon.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@girlplease: he has no clients. All the stuff listed in the portfolio is ours. The links don’t go anywhere. He’s a complete moron.
This one has got to be the best one so far, by far. I am at a loss.
I remember those Brazilian bitches from a while back...WTF are people thinking? I can’t believe it happens that often, too! Holy crap…
The advantage in having a Virtual Office is that you can encrypt all the data as it’s being passed along, thus making it impossible for the wrong people to get their hands on it. And on top of that you can keep track of what’s been where and when.