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Hey guys, thanks to those people who messaged me! I'm the original author of jQee. It looks like his site couldn't handle all the traffic from HN, but after lo

by jpurvis 13y ago

Hey guys, thanks to those people who messaged me! I'm the original author of jQee. It looks like his site couldn't handle all the traffic from HN, but after looking at google's cache I can see he's ripped most of my sales copy word for word, and just changed the examples slightly. People have been pirating this script since day one, but claiming ownership and releasing it as his own makes me much more irritated. Is he doing this so he can build a fake portfolio and rip off someone else who would then hire him for freelance? I can't really tell from his now defunct website. Anyway, I'm not sure what I can do about it. Honestly, it's not worth my time given that it's only made only ~$150 in the 1.5 years it's been on CodeCanyon. For me, this script was a one-time CodeCanyon experiment. However, I'm sure some of the other more serious CodeCanyon authors might have more to lose. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. Josh

jpurvis 13y ago
I did a little investigating to see how long this has been going on: My project has been in the wayback machine since March 2012, incidentally the same time I posted to CodeCanyon: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvis.com/projects/jqee/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvi... His page project first appeared March 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classykeyboard/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class... My project predates the creation (Nov 2012) of his domain name even: http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm Also his site isn't down -- he intentionally put that message there, I assume to lessen the heat. His wife's subdomain (http://tina.class.pm/ http://tina.class.pm/) is still active and lives on the same IP address: 137.135.220.37 Good luck Coder937! I hope you can get your project back on CC.
- lunixbochs 13y ago
  His site's back up now, with all the projects still linked. I'll mirror it.
  - nilliams 13y ago
    He appears to have removed links to the obviously offending plugins now, the 4 I spotted at least. He still has the gall to leave that blog post up though.
    - nilliams 13y ago
      Update, in case anyone refers back to this thread I spotted 3 more offending plugins today, still up on his site class.pm, that's 7 so far that he appears to have taken from CodeCanyon and is passing off as his own. I've emailed the authors concerned. http://codecanyon.net/item/owl-unobtrusive-css3-notifications/408575 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classynotty/ http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-grooveshark-style/526922 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classylightbox/ http://codecanyon.net/item/powercontext/551656 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classycontextmenu/
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by jpurvis 13y ago

jpurvis 13y ago

I did a little investigating to see how long this has been going on: My project has been in the wayback machine since March 2012, incidentally the same time I posted to CodeCanyon: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvis.com/projects/jqee/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvi... His page project first appeared March 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classykeyboard/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class... My project predates the creation (Nov 2012) of his domain name even: http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm Also his site isn't down -- he intentionally put that message there, I assume to lessen the heat. His wife's subdomain (http://tina.class.pm/ http://tina.class.pm/) is still active and lives on the same IP address: 137.135.220.37 Good luck Coder937! I hope you can get your project back on CC.

lunixbochs 13y ago
His site's back up now, with all the projects still linked. I'll mirror it.
- nilliams 13y ago
  He appears to have removed links to the obviously offending plugins now, the 4 I spotted at least. He still has the gall to leave that blog post up though.
  - nilliams 13y ago
    Update, in case anyone refers back to this thread I spotted 3 more offending plugins today, still up on his site class.pm, that's 7 so far that he appears to have taken from CodeCanyon and is passing off as his own. I've emailed the authors concerned. http://codecanyon.net/item/owl-unobtrusive-css3-notifications/408575 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classynotty/ http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-grooveshark-style/526922 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classylightbox/ http://codecanyon.net/item/powercontext/551656 http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classycontextmenu/
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