If you can't design your own...

[Jarulf]

One can always try to contact the ones hosting the site. Sure, might completely ignore you, but at least itis a try and suprisingly often it works. I once found someone that had simply copied several parts of my Guide and put it on a web page. I asked them to simply add some credits (didn't mind it otherwise), they didn't want to so I mailed the ones hosting the site and after a few exchanges of mails, they had appearantly asked the ones running the page to add the credit (or else.... never got to know what they said but the credits did appear). I really have no idea how hosts in Poland reacts (could be it is hosted outside Poland though).

As an interesting sort of related issue, I remember when the school union at my University got their home page "stolen". Baiscally they used the layout and all such and pluged in their own info. The thing was, they forgot to change one link to what was basically just a picture of a one pixle line or something. So we cought lots of traffic (requests) from their site. It was a political party on the very far right wing with quite a hard anti forigner policy. Anyway, so we (well the school union, I was not part of it) changed the picture to one of, I think, Martin Luther King holding a speech or something, which thus poped up on the middle of their pages. It quickly made them change their pages to something very new. The fun thing is that one can still read on their pages how they had their pages "hacked" in that incident as oposed to them having stolen the layout and forgot to change a link (for the interested swedish readers, it was sverigedemokraterna and they took it from tlth). Oh well. Be happy they don't grab the pictures and such off your bandwidth.

[pakman]

Well, that certainly sucks. Just email the host and see if it doesn anything. Also, contact the webmaster of the site, it's worth a try.

[--Pete]

Hi,

Like hell! :)

However, the more "civilized" approach (ask them, if that fails ask their host) should be given a chance first. No need for war if diplomacy will work.

Any Lounger fluent in Polish and willing to give Bolty a hand in communicating with these people ?

--Pete

[Brimstone]

:angry: let's go. :angry:

[TaMeOlta]

:blink: Aaah ! What language is that ?? Wouldn't that be scary if there was a Doppleganger of each and every one of us there as a member ?? :blink: :ph34r: :P

EDIT : D'oh - Polish - thanks Pete ;)

[pakman]

Over at the AB there is a Polish speaker, Yrrek< Iventure to say. Correct me if I'm wrong. maybe he could help out.

[--Pete]

Hi,

What language is that ??
. . .
EDIT : D'oh - Polish - thanks Pete

Not sure if it is or not. The domain name has the pl ending which indicates Poland, IIRC. The text looks like some of the Polish my dad reads. However, I suspect it can be any of a number of languages.

--Pete

[Wiccan]

WE WON, ITS DOWN.... I JUST CLICKED ON THE LINK..it saying can not find server

[Count Duckula]

...and I just clicked on the link and found it still existed.

Don't worry. I know people. We'll get this all sorted out... ;)

[Wiccan]

i clicked like 5 times before i posted that msg

[pakman]

No dude, sorry to say, on Saturday August 2, 10:03 pm Central Standard Time, I clicked on the link and it still worked.

[Wiccan]

I dont understand it, how come i clicked it at 12 eastern, 5 times and it was down.

Then count Duckula clicks..... it was up.

Then i checked it out after reading ducks, it was up..., so something weird has gone horribly wrong?

1 I have dsl and there nothing wrong with the service...{checked it to make sure}

2. Some angery hackers went after them for coping the look and feel of the lurkerlounge...{Highly doubt it, but you never know}

3 Can say another one but that is would have to force bolty confess that he turned into diablo, went over to the hosting company and commanded his evil legions rip down graphics to the splash page from there servers!{sorry bolty only kidding}

[Iolair]

Bolty, I think you could try asking them to design their own look. In Poland, many less developed countries, the general public have a very different attitude to copyright. People copy much more freely. They might not realise that what they are doing is offensive to us. They might even consider it a tribute

Sorry, Brista. But are you trying to say Poland is a less developed country?
And how do you know 'the general public' have a very different attitude to copyright?

I hope I mistake what you are saying, because it is darned offensive.

*The might not realise that what they are doing is offensive to us*.
No of course not, they are so under developed, they can't speak, they don't think, they can't eat properly and they are pretty much at the same level as an ape.

Do you know for a fact that the puclic in Poland have a different attitude to coyright?

Sorry if I come of harsh, but your post simply got out condescending and arrogant.
I hope I simply misunderstood your word, and if that is so, I apologize.

[WarBlade]

:lol: Well at least not bandwidth from Lurker Lounge! :lol:

Some other polish D2 site

Those screenshots look like the source of the screenies featured on the ripoff site. :D And I see nothing to suggest these two sites are affiliated.

[Sickywicky]

Aaah ! What language is that ?? Wouldn't that be scary if there was a Doppleganger of each and every one of us there as a member ??

Then my doppleganger would be called something like "sickskawickska"... :P

[Tal]

I dont understand it, how come i clicked it&nbsp; at 12&nbsp; eastern, 5 times and it&nbsp; was down.

No worries Wiccan - it wasn't working for me for the longest time either.

[Wiccan]

Okay just making sure of that.

[Obi2Kenobi]

They now have to deal with everyone going there from their site, and from ours. :P

[kandrathe]

But, there were Polish special forces involved in our latest adventure into Iraq. My advice would be to start with their hosting company informing them of the theft and then ask them what they can do about it. In Polish, of course.

[kandrathe]

Dlaczego zrobil wy kradniecie moja grafike polozenia?

Online Polish Translator. I think I just asked if I could date your Audi...