Nick Harewood

birmingham

web designer

This has probably been going on as long as people have been 'designing' webpages. More often than not - it is a case of an young inexperienced wannabe web designer taking a site design they like and modifying it slightly to suit their/clients needs.

You just need to look at http://www.pirated-sites.com/ to see some of the thousands of examples that have occured in recent years. Many of these may just be designer/developers personal sites being ripped off, but it's still theft of intellectual property. Especially not funny for the clients (who to be fair - are probably getting what they paid for) presented with a second-hand site, pay for it, and are then told to remove it.