SpunkyCash.com - Caught Stealing......
 

I have a couple dozen websites that I own and use specifically for casting talent for my clients. I have a nice little form that I designed for the girls to fill out, attach a few pics and submit to me. Apperently the good folks at SpunkyCash saw one of my websites and decided to copy the submission form from my website and paste it into one of their websites that they use for casting. And then they decided to put a copyright at the bottom of the page "after" stealing it from me. When I called them on it...they said.... "its a form.. wow .. big fucking deal.. u made it sound like we stole a whole website.. i'll re-arrange the text if i must." And then he said..."you dont own the copyright to forms.. "

So I just got to wondering.....it's not OK to steal a whole website but it is OK to steal the design of the submission form and the copy that accompanied that submission form?

Hey SpunkyCash - how about designing your own shit in the future and not steal shit from others? Anybody with half a brain cell could have designed that form - you didn't have to steal mine :321GFY

hahaha didnt take you long..

you know i would have been alot nicer about it if u hadnt started by emailing me calling me a prick and an asshole an what not

i hired a designer to make the site, i told u that from the beginning, i didnt know they had copied it, i said i would re-arrange the text, but its a form, what seriously can u change on it??

looks like he was caught red handed :1orglaugh

if he will steal that, what else might he steal? :(

Sig spot secured

I didn't start out calling you a prick! I started out by sending you an email and then I sent one to PunkerBarbie - both of which went unanswered. Then I got pissed. If you dont' want to be called a prick...then don't act like one :thumbsup

Spunkster - meet Dean - he likes to whine - about anything - and everything. ignore him.

omg omg omg

getting in on time.

Interesting. Not enough info to make a judgment in my opinion.

its a fucking form - who cares - anybody who knows Spunky knows he isn't a thief. Dean gets himself worked up about everything.

:disgust

Do you really wanna stick your fucking nose in this Mutt?

its true Dean - you're a talented guy and a decent guy but you get worked up about stuff you shouldn't.

the first email i have seen about it i got today, punker asked me a few days about it cuz i guess she got the email, but i wasnt about to share my designer with someone else so i said ignore it, it didnt say anything about copying his form..

Why is DeanCapture always in the middle of drama?

And here I was looking forward to a witty comment about the "Rouge Designer excuse being behind the I sent the wire excuse" Oh well , maybe next drama.

this looks like it will be short lived but even it is just a form it was Dean's form. Sometimes if you ask first people will let you use it. Hard to ask after you were caught.

Man, dean you are harsh. But you have a right to be pissed I suppose ;)

Hmmm - I'm not that worked up about this. Dude stole a siimple design and my copy and then he wanted to tell me that it was ok for them to steal it cause it was just a form and a form isn't copyrightable. I just thought other people should know that Spunky thought it was ok to steal peoples work and use it on his website ... that's all.

had i known it was a copy of his form sure i would have asked or asked the designer to make a new one but i've never heard of this guy before and therefor have never been to any of his sites..

our form

http://www.spunkypro.com/application.html

(i did change a little of the text after i had been told it was a copy)

his form

http://www.makemoneymodeling.com/femaleform.html

It was a simple "but efficient" form and along with the form was some copy that I wrote. These guys lifted the form "and" all the copy that went with it. And yes....I have had people ask if they could use the form and I have always said sure....no problem and thanks for asking. It's not anything that couldn't be designed by any webmaster with even the smallest amount of html skills. Hey, if I can design it - anyone can :thumbsup

is it too early to call

SIG SPOT ??????

I suggest everyone read the book "to catch a thief" :1orglaugh
http://www.david-dodge.com/images/thief.jpg

When I told you it was a copy - you said...."its a form.. wow .. big fucking deal.. u made it sound like we stole a whole website." :mad:

Well i was going to write a big long post , but i thought i would narrow it down..

I have done that in the past ( cut & paste someone's form )

I hate it when someone cut & pastes my forms :)

This is one of those grey areas, like tailgating, i hate it when someone tailgates me , but sometimes when someone is going slow i tailgate them :)

Tell me you've never copied a single line of html code ? Or never published any content that you don't own ... or never downloaded any mp3s ?

you know how many forms you can copy from the web and who are made to copy. don't tell me you never copied some part of a form or script. damn that is really not a problem. it is not content, it is just a form.

the way u were goin off about it.. it did sound like it was a whole website..

Ah Dean...
 

Yo Dean your good people, but so is Spunky... I honestly believe he didnt do it deliberately... obviously his designer saw your stuff and thought that was an easy out... no excuse but just sounds like you guys are now butting heads...

As I said your both good people, no need for drama, sure Spunky will put it right...

Yo - I dont' mean to be harsh! I'm really the nicest most easy going guy you'll ever meet and I always treat people with respect. But I hate it when people fuck with me. I work hard to make a buck in this industry and it pisses me off when I see someone like Spunky use some stolen shit on his website. It doesn't matter if it's a form or not.....the bottom line is that it was a stole form, stolen copy and it was put on Spunkys website and then they put a copyright at the bottom of the page like it was their design??? Then when I finally got a response from him....he wants to tell me that it's ok cause they only stole the form and not the whole website and that the form isn't copyrightable. :1orglaugh

I never remember the code for forms so I usually copy my own, which was copied from somewhere else. I do change the formatting and text though of course.

Spam and form stealing... Dean you must have a pretty easy life if those are your biggest problems.

No - it wasn't "just a form" it was the design of the form as well as the copy that I wrote that accompanied the form.

So it's ok to steal the form and the copy that accompanied the form but it's not OK to steal the whole website? Well, that makes it ok then. Carry on........

bah, worthless drama.

A form is a form, any web monkey can make a form, if he wants to collect the same data there is only so many ways to collect it.

Move on to something more important.

Well said.

Did I say those were my biggest problems? :winkwink:

i had to do it.

http://www.photohost.org/gallery/dat...ussy_hurts.jpg

It wasn't just a form - maybe you should read the whole fucking thread before you put your foot in your mouth. It was the form and the copy that accompanied the form and of course the layout and design of the form.

This thread is rather unnecessary and rather mean on your part Dean. It?s a simple form, so if one guy designs a magazine style site is he then stealing the design of another site that happens to have the same magazine style? Come on this is so petty.

I would like to know how this is effecting your business, have you lost money, models I mean what is driving you or is it just your ego that seems to be hurt?

Dean you crack me up - you're on FIRE dude!!
:1orglaugh

anyways....WELCOME TO THE CLUB, at least these guys were nice enough to admit they copped something from you. I've been plagued for years with dickwads (including LARGE SPONSORS) stealing my shit , (especially photos) and then they DENY IT or blame it on an affiliate.

Matt

ouch...hehe
and one point for Spunkycash and zero for Dean.

Get over it man

Punker - as I've already stated numerous times in this thread...it was more than just the form. I spent hours designing the form, the copy that went with the form and the layout of the form so that it was pleasing to the eye and so that it worked properly. I'm not a designer so this was no easy task for me. When I see that my whole creation copied and reproduced on someone elses site...yes, that tends to piss me off a bit. And then when I question them about it and they tell me that its' ok that they stole it because it's just a form - that pisses me off even more.

How many times a week do you see someone here that runs a program complaining about stolen content? I see all the time. I would consider the layout/design of the form that I created as well as the copy that went along with it "my content". And I found it reproduced on your website without my knowledge or approval. I don't have anything to be a little pissed about? Come on already..........

It's about principle.

Wuz up Matt'ster? Good to hear from ya'.............

People steal my shit and then they don't understand why I get a little pissed :1orglaugh

I did read the thread,

It's a FORM wtf.

Apparently I stole something from your site as well since I have a contact form with picture uploads.

might as well go after 90% of the people on here, I'm sure they stole it from you as well. Regardless of where spunky got the idea from, It's their code, they wrote it.

Deal with it, move along, do something productive and stop complaining like you've got sand in your pussy.

Spat something out ?

http://www.teenieindex.com/beernballs.jpg

So cut him a check for stolen form. :thumbsup

dean
that reminds me of the time that some shit ass website stole my entire join page. what was really fuct was the nOObs forgot to change the email addy associated with the page. lol

i was getting emails from angry people for the other website. it really freaked me out at first. :)

haha I love how some of us shows up when certain people get involved here. Hey Grisey!