What if another forum copies yours?

[Beverly]

When you find another forum (that is younger than yours) with identical subforums and look, do you feel they are copying you? Or, do you welcome potential competition for your forum?

 

[Jason1]

50% feel they are copying and 50% welcome the competition

 

[AE Online]

No patent, then can't do anything about it. Fight for your place lol

 

[xpl0iter]

Can't DMCA do anything about that?
To be frank I never cared about this till now. But google penalizing the sites with copied contents is going to be a issue in these cases.

 

[Southern Comfort]

I've had it happen before, same forum software, same theme, just moved the forums around a bit. I contacted the co-admin of the place who was a friend of mine and he quit that day along with most of the members he had brought over.

I am a forum wrecker, I handle stuff like this on my own so easy I've gotten a bit cocky.

 

[AE Online]

I am going to be releasing a little blog article for success tips in the Internet industry. Stay tuned for that. It will help.

 

[lowrider.STi]

I don't know if I can do much about it...I'd probably ask the admin to remove the copied content.

 

[Southern Comfort]

I don't know if I can do much about it...I'd probably ask the admin to remove the copied content.

Sometimes that doesn't work though and they'll play the "Oh I didn't know, sorry!" card and still keep the content up. You just have to deal with it sometimes unfortunately.