Regarding your first case I can understand someone ignoring letters hoping everything will disappear or hope that you will lose interest but for someone to laugh off blatant plagiarism, in the case of your second thief, it is a very strange approach to take.

Surely they will know that all the work you have produced will be time stamped etc. They really don’t have a leg to stand on.

With regards to my problem there seems to be very little development work happening on the site, perhaps they’ve read this post?

The first was when a toy shop competitor ripped off all our layouts and banner styles. Sadly it was too expensive to do anything other than send a firm legal letter, which got zero response. Instead I’m using this as motivation to come up with something bigger and better.

Second up was with a corporate client who had an email newsletter ripped off. They simply laughed it off and did nothing, which to say the least was very strange in comparison to the smaller toy stores reaction.

However in regards to your problem, I’d leave it a while to see what happens. Hopefully they are just using your site to learn how to do things properly.

Cheers for commenting the blog! There are two reasons why I’ve yet to name and shame

1, The site in question isn’t actually live, it seems to be in a folder off the root. The only reason I stumbled across it was because the person in question forgot to take out my mint script.

2, My second reason for not doing anything is because they seem to be of a relatively young age, in the about section they mention attending a college.

I’ll obviously keep my eye on them and see how things progress, I’ve got a screenshot of how things currently are, if they used it as a starting point and progress it from there then I don’t see the harm in that. However if nothing changes I’ll definately be using social networks to spread the word.

That seems to be the general consensus on Twitter. Cole Henley pointed me in the direction of http://www.copyscape.com/respond.php which is definately something for me to look into.

Another message suggested I should obtain their details through the whois registrars and contact their hosting company directly and let them deal with it.