Stealing is Never O.K.

I’m all for looking at other designers for inspiration in my own work, but I always try and take an “idea” from another designer…never the actual design.

I’m generally of the mind that it’s almost impossible to come up with a 100% unique design. No matter what, pieces of your work can be found somewhere else on the web. But that’s not the issue here.

Looking at the code, you can see that they didn’t even remove parts of the code from the Cork’d website they just commented it out. This is a blatant ripoff.

Most site thefts aren’t this blatant. Only real morons leave code unique to the stolen site in the files.

With the internet shrinking the world more and more every day, I’m amazed that people still think they can get away with this sort of shenanigan.

• Original Design
• Pirate Design

Judge for yourself. For me, the similarities are striking.

Update: Aw, they went and changed it…