Klipp og Lim

In march, Eirik, who’s a part of Klipp og Lim, finished a website called Goto China – a photoblog from his class trip to China. The site, focusing on full screen images and utilizing RSS-feeds to display content, recieved much acclaim from several web award sites, including CSS Mania, Screenfluent, Best Web Gallery and Most Inspired to mention some. In it’s first month the site had over 20 500 hits, and over 250 pages linking to Goto China.

However, as sometimes happens, people who are impressed with others work can’t keep their fingers off it. Being inspired by others work is one thing, outright stealing others code and design is something completely different. The first week after it’s release, the Google Analytics-account for Goto China started showing hits from sites who had stolen the source code so they still linked to the original content. Take a look at Lotim Group and you’ll see what I mean. It’s so similar it’s embarrasing, not only does it look almost identical but the code is literarily identical too. They’ve just replaced the images and the text.

This is a professional company and it really annoying to see they are ripping off others work like this. This is probably a case for the website You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice who deals with these kinds of ripoffs. I hope that others let it be known to the public when their work get stolen like this – it’s important to prevent others making money and promoting their company by stealing a product that someone has spent many hard working hours on.