This is a piece of interesting robbery story I witnessed recently. Today I thought to share with my readers since I laughed sometime because of this. Here it goes:

One or two years back we found that my company’s official website (the company I work for) is copied by some company (Sun Tiara) in Bangalore (India). Usually designers collect items from internet and change it at least 80% to avoid copyright issues. But here not just the design, but also the content was copied.

I wonder why they are not ashamed to do so. I mailed them regarding this politely and, thankfully got no reply. But after one month I saw they changed the text contents but design remains same. If I remember correctly, I sent again 2 more mails, without reply. Well, checked today and found they changed the ‘colors’ of design. Still the layout, image position etc. remains same.

Well, why I am interested in them? just because I regularly check the Google analytics of our company website and surprised to see some hits which are not relevant to our website. Today I was curious and did a small research.

What I found? – lol, they are STILL using my company’s Google Analytics code!

This is why I make the post title - Learn to steal. If you do not know how to rob a thing, why doing that?

Well, my company revamped the official website last month. Also we moved to Google Analytics’ new script. But still they have the old urchin script.

Google Analytics screen of my company’s website.

Below are screenshots from HTML source of my company website and their website.

http://www.pitsolutions.com/ [PIT Solutions]:

http://suntiara.net [Sun Tiara] (the stoled copy):

It is okay if they did this just because of ignorance. What happens if they continue to use it even after repeated warnings and requests?

Note: I do not want to make troubles to business of anybody. I know this post may also crawl by search engines. If some of you need me to remove post, please mail me at ninethsense@hotmail.com

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