{"id":2242,"date":"2013-06-12T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:07:38","slug":"flattery-or-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/blog\/flattery-or-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattery or Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68185271?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"444\" width=\"780\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flattery will get you&#8230; nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/lernpress-plugin.de\" target=\"_blank\">German company<\/a> have blatantly ripped off our homepage video and ripped off the design of our good friend Shawn Hesketh at <a href=\"http:\/\/wp101.com\">wp101.com<\/a>\u00a0until he sent them a DMCA take down notice and they changed their theme.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have already issued DMCA notices with <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67627008\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a> (who have acted) and <a href=\"http:\/\/wpengine.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPEngine<\/a> (who we love &#8211; but haven&#8217;t acted as yet &#8211; they have asked me to follow the UK\/EU take down process as the site is on their EU servers &#8211; more bloody hoops to jump through) and I have asked the owner of the site to remove the video as well as the screenshot of our plugin form this page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lernpress.de\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lernpress.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, ripping other people&#8217;s IP off is stupid, lazy and foolish. And at the end of the day it makes you look inferior. Start adding value or go play elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we are the original and best white-label solution to training your clients how to use WordPress in <a href=\"http:\/\/videousermanuals.com\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/deutsch\/\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/francais\/\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/espanol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/portugues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese<\/a> and Italian and we include videos for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/woocommerce\/\" target=\"_blank\">WooCommerce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP SEO by Yoast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Hesketh at <a href=\"http:\/\/wp101.com\" target=\"_blank\">WP101<\/a> also has a good offering and is a good guy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flattery will get you&#8230; nowhere. 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