A tale of a copycat site

Dec 29, 2004 20:36 · 65 words · 1 minute read

Found on Slashdot, here is one developer’s tale of bringing down a copycat site. It is very hard to protect intellectual property on the net. While I think that open source is great, I also think that no viable business model for open source consumer desktop software has yet appeared. Until we can figure out a good model, we have to deal with IP violations.