the ULTIMATE rip off...

[Pastore]

Must of us participated in the bubble tea (boba tea) thread a while back... i am still trying to find this stuff here in my area... as i was doing some research on this stuff, i found something VERY interesting...

this site doesnt look familiar does it?

Bubble Tea Online

 

[Valhalla1]

say whaaa?

 

[paruhd0x]

OMG! :Q:|

 

[KameLeon]

Damn! those bastards :|

 

[mHubs]

Wow what a blatant rip

 

[Brainiac2000]

lol.. they did a bad job of making it look good.. the top bar seems a bit.. missing?

 

[Brainiac2000]

if you are going to rip off a site, at least DONT steal an extremely popular website's layout..

not that i approve of that sort of thing.

 

[Pastore]

that sucked...

 

[Imported]

There was a thred for pearls and I missed it? Damn.. them are good too.

Damn shame they ripped the site tho.

 

[Pretender]

that = suck
that.AIMChatRoom = suck^2
that.Forums = suck
that.Homepage = RippedoffSuck^2

 

[GL]

Hahaha,

How much do you want to bet that the person behind that site thought to themself Now why would an AnandTech computer nerd ever visit a website on Bubble Tea?. Damn, the truth does eventually come out!

-GL

 

[crab]

holy crap!
are they allowed to do that??
I mean is it legal?

 

[helpme]

It's pretty similar, but not exact like some rips.

 

[Pooht]

i say we rush the AIM chat room...lol

 

[Rogue]

If I remember this correctly, a similar situation came up before regarding this "similarity". I seem to recall that the Anandtech homepage is actually a template of some kind in the ColdFusion Development kit or something. It's not a total rip if that's the truth. There are some people here who know this already.

 

[Pretender]

They merely stole the template - the visual look of the site, none of the content. Anandtech.com probably uses a script (most likely Coldfusion since they already use that for the forums) to update it based on the current news and articles as submitted by the writers.

 

[Pretender]

Wow, a double post 2 minutes apart, even though I only clicked post once

 

[bigbootydaddy]

right, isnt AT beta test all cold fusion fusetalk for their forums??

bubblebutttea seams to use UBB.

 

[Thegonagle]

Rouge, Pretender,

I was shocked at first but then I guessed the same thing as you guys: they just used the same template. So I didn't even respond when I first saw this thread.