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Actually, nobody knows anything except that onemine.com is willing to hijack the websites of its clients. Everything else is you simply accepting their side of
by balloot 13y ago
Actually, nobody knows anything except that onemine.com is willing to hijack the websites of its clients. Everything else is you simply accepting their side of the story without question.
- alexqgb 13y agoWrong. If the client didn't pay, and clear title to the site didn't transfer, then the site is, if not owned by the designer, then jointly owned by the designer and the client. IP law 101.
- balloot 13y agoand how do you know the client didn't pay?
- alexqgb 13y agoI can't be absolutly certain, of course, but given the quality of the work itself I can tell that the people who did it aren't amatures. I also know the probability an accomplished, professional designer claiming non-payment when payment was made is virtually zero. Indeed, having worked in related fields for the better part of two decades, I cannot think of a single example where a designer attempted to shake down a client with a bogus claim of non-payment. But I can think of an astonishingly depressing number of cases where clients wanting something for nothing decided that stiffing their vendors was an easy and acceptable way to increase their own margins. All other considerations aside, if the client didn't pay, the work isn't theirs. By law. Full stop. And if the client was stupid enough to host their site with a vendor they're shafting, the the vendor is well within their rights to limit access to that site in the fashion they did.
- ceejayoz 13y agoThat'd turn this from "payment dispute" into "extortion", wouldn't it? A lot to risk to extract a few grand from a client who already paid you...