I agree. You'd be wasting so much time to sue another forum creator who tried to clone your forum. Getting a lwayer and such would cost more than the plagiarism in the first place. Because of a few things:
1. If a person who clones a forum is too lazy and unimaginative to create his/her own ideas for his/her forum, then that person will enver have a successful forum, one that should already be announced dead.
2. If your forum is valuable enough to be copied. You shouldn't sweat it, chances are your members are loyal if your forum is active and well created, and that they won't pay heed to communities that fail to even come up with their own creative ideas.
3. Although you might be pretty angry someone copied your forum. You shouldn't take actions like you did Shady. Filing a DMCA notice was too early. You should take decisions with a calm mind, as you were pretty angry according to your first post, stating you would not complete the skin and everything. The best decision to go with is to talk and discuss with the person copying you, and try to negotiate with them what happened and tell them to remove the instances where they copied. Forgive me if you did discuss with Samar and he refused to change what he did. Which does not seem to be the case for me.
4. Don't ever try to sue another forum for copyright unless they've gotten much bigger than you from using your ideas. The costs and time wasted for it would be much more than the worth.
Take those ideas into mind when something like this happens.
1. If a person who clones a forum is too lazy and unimaginative to create his/her own ideas for his/her forum, then that person will enver have a successful forum, one that should already be announced dead.
2. If your forum is valuable enough to be copied. You shouldn't sweat it, chances are your members are loyal if your forum is active and well created, and that they won't pay heed to communities that fail to even come up with their own creative ideas.
3. Although you might be pretty angry someone copied your forum. You shouldn't take actions like you did Shady. Filing a DMCA notice was too early. You should take decisions with a calm mind, as you were pretty angry according to your first post, stating you would not complete the skin and everything. The best decision to go with is to talk and discuss with the person copying you, and try to negotiate with them what happened and tell them to remove the instances where they copied. Forgive me if you did discuss with Samar and he refused to change what he did. Which does not seem to be the case for me.
4. Don't ever try to sue another forum for copyright unless they've gotten much bigger than you from using your ideas. The costs and time wasted for it would be much more than the worth.
Take those ideas into mind when something like this happens.
