Innovate, Don’t Imitate/ N’imitez pas, Innovez!
12 May 2008, Hedi |
It’s a personal post this time. A post written with a feeling of deception.
A few months ago, I created a community for students to help them share documents for the CPA exam, I’m administrating the community with a friend: Sahbi.
The community is growing in an impressive way, and I’m so proud of the 150+ members.
Within two days, Sahbi and I discovered that 3 members tried to copy the site and make community like the one I created… These followers called their websites by their names myname.ning.com, while the “original” one is “compta.ning.com”.
I know the followers “trend” is fluent in the profitable businesses but why following a “free” concept?
I’m so deceived by what they did, and of course banned them for the site to stop the copy process, God only know where they arrived.
What they did is absolutely not logical, but the worst, after I banned them, they are writing me e-mails asking me to accept them back in the community! Crazy… but true!
Sahbi and I are proud members of the CPA Network, it is free, and we’re just two regular members, but I just want people to understand that these kind of ideas are the fruit of passion and love for a profession.
What we are learning from what we are studying is the fact that we’ll belong to a single corporation, wondering if they do understand the meaning of that…
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J’ai offert le lien aux personnes qui ont commis ces tristes actes…
Do you know who these people were?
You have to start registering your ideas and work Hedi. It’s very lame to have such idiots actually begging to come back, when they must have known that you’d eventually find out about it.
You want my reaction? Ummm, you have to be more careful with your sites and ideas, please consider doing logs and filing your work at the patent office. It doesn’t hurt, sure it’s not free but it’s not that expensive either… AND if you happen to bring something online that could spawn a bigger and better thing without your approval.. well my friend… then that’s when you can sue the crap out of them!
I am sorry to hear this crap happening to you… but don’t accept them back and just let them be banned forever… AND make an example of them!
But if you look into it you might be able to take legal action and actually hurt them…
It’s appalling to see people do this kind of petty theft. I mean come on…. weren’t we all friends? Who went and stuck a knife in your back?
-S
Unfortunately its hard to keep anyone from copying ideas especially with web designs or concepts. Everyone in a way takes ideas from someone and modifies it and extrapolates on it and then puts it out there. It sucks that you came up with an original idea and that someone was already copying your site . And have members do it too that really bites. Nostromo is right it is appalling for them to put a knife in your back but when it comes to sites unless you protect yourself in legal ways really there is not much you can do except maybe try to build a better site with more detail and better membership to shut them down. Keep the good work up and good things will happen.
Ce que tu as fait est grandiose Hedi, ce site et ta coommunaute (meme si je ne suis pas dans ton domaine) me rendent fiere d etre tunisienne!
Stupid a**holes with no creativity, hah