888ball Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 *sigh* Does that count as nicking our name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 It does indeed. I believe that Qdeathstar of gta-sanandreas.com and gta-four.net owns that. tut tut....copying my ideas, firstly using 'four' the word instead of the number 4 in the domain, and then using my sites actual name. Still it's not trademarked so he's free to do that. It just shows a complete lack of imaginiation on his part, and depending on the naivity of visitors they may look down on him for his plagiaristic antics, or may not realise he hasn't come up with any unique ideas himself. If he steals any of my content though then I can take legal action and he would be forced to remove it or have his site closed down by his host... but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. Best case scenario is he fails at GTA websites and the domain expires and then I'll just buy it and redirect it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriaan Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Lol some people are stupid. The worst I've seen is when I saw that GTAWh.com had a page on their site that's copied from gtaportable.com. It was seen on my site during the early stages of the LCS pre-game: http://www.gtawh.com/lcs/features.php What happened was some GTA fan site emailed me and said that they want to affiliate and that he wrote that page. Lol, how stupid. Copies my content, publish it on a popular website, then want to affliate using an unknown one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Yeah, there used to be a result in google that came up around third when you searched for thegtaplace. It was only an IPB forum, but the admin's name was Chris, the site was called ThegTaplace, and he had the same avatar as Chris did at the time. He also copied a couple of our news stories. What a douche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagg Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Okay, 2 posts in a row. SO WHAT ...anyways, chris wont answer, coz he already answered in msn, oh ya lil creep! i wont let you get away with it! As i predicted, all knowing and all mighty tagg knew hes answer already, which ended up beeing. ""'lol well actually there is already a topic about it "" Now people, for every person that answers, i want 500$ from you. i betted your money, you owe me 500$. To help you guys make it easier, Direct link to send me the 500$ oh and after i told chris to say that in here, of course he refused, what an ungrateful son of a bitch...and again, he sent me a link of that post to rub in my face that thing he had just said. AND AGAIN, i dont get any thanks, even for trying to help THIS GTA PLACE SUCKS WHY i posted that... COZ OF THIS! and after all, he did answer...but do you see ANY THANK YOU in there?! NOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Lol you're crazy. You need to lay off whatever you're smoking, thanks for also notifying me about this rip, but what am I supposed to do about it? It's not like they're a big site, they have no reputation to lose... hehe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagg Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Oh ya, seriously gta place is the most hilarious place to be at, and sadly, i have no reasons YET to be talking about this gta place , but just give me a lil time. anyways, chris and i thought you should all see this AND LAUGH AT THEM!!! Hello, somebody tell me where the news are?and...well, everything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 ACTUALLY, I've seen HILARIOUS rips while at GTAWH. Someone created a website that was a carbon-copy of GTAWH, but in a free web type of host thing. He even left the copyrights in it. And then there was that free message board that even used the banner. And each 'admin' or whatever had a different GTAWH banner as their signature((you know, how most GTA sites change banners for each section? yeah. Each guy had a different one as his sig XD)). It was so effin' hilarious. Wooo. If anything, extremely stupid direct-rips provide a bit of amusement when nothing is happening. Especially when the little kid's friends are telling them how awesome their site is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagg Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) FOR CHRIS : Your still a dumbass....they dont have a reputation to lose, but YOU DO... if they screw up, people will say 'ya gtaplace this, gtaplace that' and then they check this site and they immediately assume its the same one...so just tell them to change the freaking name or something...i would love to see another site screw up yours, and although that would make my year worth living through, hahaha, it would still be a lil lil lil lil tiny minuscule piece of me that would be sad.... Edited September 3, 2006 by Tagg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airashii Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Always fun to do a bit of re-decorating in their forum. A.K.A a bit of spamming. But yeah, I think you were over-reacting slightly there Tagg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Why would you love to see someone screw up my site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagg Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) ya we talked about it with chris, im just a lil bored you know...jesus, come on, give me a break...i should like be able to spam every forums by now. but anyways, im done complicating chris' life...from now on, till i had enough, ill be a good member... like always And why would i like that...BECAUSE youve worked so much on it, and like i left my site, so you are the only left...lol, and afterall the pain u went through, would be hilarious to see all go down and f*** up...coz of a lil site, hahahaha dont you think?! not that i want that to happen, coz then i would feel guilty and i would end up helping you rebuild...which would be lots of work...and i dont want work now, i want peace and quiet Edited September 3, 2006 by Tagg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 No offence Tag but that post was totally messed up. Why would you want that to happen to this site, it wouldnt be funny. Those other sites ,as Chris said have no imgination and are a miles off the the standard of this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy vercetti guy Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 zI dont think he copied it at all. I mean, GTA Place is like, a very common name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 No Tagg I really do not think it would be funny, and what the hell are you talking about "the pain I went through". I haven't got a clue what you mean by this. You need to stop acting like you're some kind of legend and can get away with anything, because you can't. You can't just randomly come back to my forums and start spamming, posting multiple topics about some site whose ripped my name. You can abide by the rules like everyone else. Most people find out why it's not a good idea to piss me off, especially when I'm in a shitty mood like today. Hence the blockage on MSN. Also stop asking me for points, you said you don't care about them, and also that you aren't going to be in a gang. Stop being a tool, or you can just leave these forums. zI dont think he copied it at all. I mean, GTA Place is like, a very common name. Well not really. It's a common word, but you don't see two GTAGamings, or two PlanetGTA's, or two GTA Warehouses for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaruff Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 @Tagg - A websites reputation, nor a webmasters reputation, isn't going to be affected because someone ripped a website name. It is clearly not going to happen. When it comes down to it, GTA-Place.com is always going to be viewed as an average fansite with a ripped name while TheGTAPlace.com has already been established as one of the premire GTA resources on the internet. I mean, when it comes down to the core, people could care less about the website name, as long as the website has quality content. I mean, the only content on GTA-Place right now are PHP error messages. I'm sure that Chris is shaking in fear because a site that doesn't even have a working CMS is going to "take his site" down. Tagg, your latest post has to be the dumbest thing I've read since, well, the post you made before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Agreed. Nobody seriously cares about the lesser fansites nowadays anyway. http://www.thegtaplace.com/gtasiteranks.php (most trafficked gta *domains*) Note the difference in sheer popularity between this site (2) and their site (204). Ok so Alexa isn't very accurate at measuring traffic, but it just demonstrates the point. I really could not care less if they use our name, it's not going to affect me nor the site itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airashii Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Impressive list there Chris. I take it that it's fairly recent... otherwise you could just take it from a time period when you were doing better, if there was such a time, I don't know. Anyway, this 'Copy' GTA-Place seems to be full of error messages atm, will probably die soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagg Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Jaruff why you coming all aggresive on me now eh? whats your problem!!! lol And chris, dont you start treating me like shit, (ur other long post) i know you in a bad mood and all that crap and thats why you talking like that, but im serious, dont give me that shit...and hum, i aint spamming the site, u gave me the idea to show that gtaplace error here and i did, okay i didnt know about this topic, ma bad...but dont start accusing me of spamming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 He isnt being aggressive, but you are saying some stupid things about being allowed to spam and how great etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Impressive list there Chris.I take it that it's fairly recent... otherwise you could just take it from a time period when you were doing better, if there was such a time, I don't know. No this is updated every time Alexa updates. And this is the best we've ever done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Game Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 that looks like adams site.. and yes thats a copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_P Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 No this is updated every time Alexa updates. And this is the best we've ever done. ...Wow, second. Not bad eh. And with a Google Pangerank of 5. Keep it up. Though TGTAP should be first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Yeah, but GTANet are still bigger, if you put all of their sites together on one domain I'm sure their alexa rank would be well under 10,000. It doesn't really prove anything though, and it's not something I boast about, it's just to compare the amount of traffic to all the different GTA sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_P Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Ok. but I reckon you'll be getting many more visitors after you complete the gang system and djbob (Yeah I went to Invisonize!) comletes the fixes to the IBStore. Just recently ive noticed a few more members being online...around 9ish you get about 23-24 members online at peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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