Stolen Identity: Digital Theft

Thanks to one of our fans Rajiv, we have discovered yet another case of stolen identity. JMJ Technologies, a company out of India (why are we not surprised), has an exact replica of Rareview’s site online and is passing it off as their own. This is a pretty bad case, where the company has stolen our Flash files, decompiled them, and then used them to build their own site. Unfortunately, they have really missed a lot of the little details that make us Rareview Interactive.

While flattery is nice, thievery is not. We can’t help feel that our identity has been stolen in yet another case of digital theft. If you want to help support us, and other creative folks that have original works stolen online, then please bombard these guys with emails to take the site down.

Regardless of the outcome, we find this slightly humorous and wanted to share with the community. The most ironic part is their claim that they create “original designs” in their opening Flash movie. We also like that the content is identical to ours and they even have taken the quotes from me; amazing!

Here’s some screenshots and a link to their website. It’s very, shall we say, original? Enjoy.

www.jmjtechnologies.com

JMJ Technology Copycats

UPDATE (July 30, 2008)!

We have received an email from JMJ Technologies. Here it is verbatim, for those who are interested in seeing some resolution to this hassle.

———– Email ———–

JMJ
Bangalore

Hi Chuck,
Do accept our apologies for the hassle. We actually were too busy doin client work that we quite let the initial site lie. Our mistake and we regret our actions. The site will be replaced with the new design within
the next 48 hours.

Albeit .. this design was beautiful. Kudos to your designers. Watch out for our upcoming site .. we will look forward to your comments.

Regards,
Lennold D’Almeida
JMJ Technologies

———– END: Email ———–

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see the new site.

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Published:: July 28, 2008 / 9:40 am

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Anonymous 7.31.08 / 7am

Haha. Gotta love the email Chuck.

Ragu 7.31.08 / 9pm

It is amazing how people can just think they can get away with stuff like this. They are working launching a new site within 48 hours…amazing. Working on decompiling another site I’m sure!!

Lennold D'Almeida 9.11.08 / 10am

Dear Chuck…

We can never be apologetic enough for what we thought was the original work of our employee which in effect turned out to be a dastardly act of theft.

We were ashamed about it to no end… further aggravated by an employee’s abuse of our trust.

Again thanks to Rajiv for informing us of this and helping us set it right.

As we informed you earlier, we did have our new alpha site up in 48 hours.

The mail received from Rajiv when he saw our new website was,

========================== EMAIL =============================

Hi,

Really cool site, awesome now its fresh and rocking………
I like the concept ……….. now its really JMJ technologies………………….. SUPERB

Thanks
Rajiv

========================== END EMAIL ==========================

We have not received any response from you though.

The apology sent to you was sincere and you chose to ridicule it in this fashion. It was from a gentleman to a gentleman.

Now into the present, instead of dwelling in the bygones,

We never were in any dearth for creativity or otherwise… but we just went overboard in placing trust in an employee with low integrity. If that suffices as grounds to humor you, have your laugh.

If you wish to continue with accusing us for what we as a company were unaware of, so be it.
If you wish to continue to be indifferent and insensitive to a genuine apology, so be it.

We wish you well and wish that you never experience this response for trust ever placed either from an employee or from a gentleman.

Have a nice day and God bless.
Do visit our site.

Regards,
Lennold D’Almeida

Paul Benninghove 1.5.09 / 12pm

Immitation is the highest form of flattery…oh wait, no it’s just stealing in our business…lol

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