They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but recently we’ve been thinking sometimes it more resembles theft. Like in the case of a certain European website that has taken what looks like a copy of TSA and are passing it off as their own design, complete with most of our images, our stylesheets and – yes – our content, but all under a different name. They’ve even overwritten our watermarks!
Recently this was confined to a foreign language ‘version’ of the site in question but over the last couple of days they’ve opened up their ‘English language’ site too. So, we had to step in and clear something up because it’s likely that at some point down the road you’ll come across it: TheSixthAxis does not license out its design, styling and content, to anyone. If you see something that looks like TSA but isn’t, walk away.
We value our writers and community more than most, it seems, so it’s a real shame when this sort of thing happens. We’ve tried to stay friendly and professional on the matter but sadly that doesn’t seem to work – if anyone has any experience in this field and is happy to do a bit of pro bono legal work we’d love to hear from you. We have approached the site in question many times and despite initially admitting the source of their design as TSA (and linking to us with credit) they have stopped responding and removed the credit links so we are currently in the process of gathering the appropriate information to take legal action. Again, apologies for interrupting your daily TSA feed but we just had to get this out there.
Both of these images are of the site in question. No, your eyes do not deceive you, the copy really is that similar to our design. They even update their design as we change ours. We’re not unreasonable, we love what we do and we like to see other sites spring up and keep the scene fresh. If anyone wants help from TSA with design questions or content then we’ll always try to help out when we can (as we have with various sites). We don’t wish any harm on the site responsible for this, we just want the matter cleared up with minimal fuss. Peace.
TSBonyman
That stinks, i can appreciate how it must feel to see your work ripped off like that so i hope these guys are stopped.
spooner_22
I don’t believe it…that sucks. Bastards.
beeje13
how dare they, good luck TSA in bringing them down
nofi
We just want what’s fair.
solidsteven
how very sad of them to copy tsa. i know sorry for stating the obvious that tsa will win before you can say the sixth axis
gazzagb
Hope it gets sorted out soon, its unfair that they just copy all of your hardwork without crediting it at all.
Jumping Monks
Good luck bringing them down, or at least getting them to stop blatantly ripping off all of your hard work.
trollmonster
I don’t know why all the bad comments? it’s my favourite site on the internet. They have some real good content. I post comments on it daily ;o)
solidsteven
BURN THEM AND SEND THEM TO err 2g1c lol