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I'm not sure what kind of response this will get, if any at all, or even if this is the right place to post it. I'm Jack and have been running an OSI replica T2A shard for over 2 years. As of late, I've been becoming annoyed as our website design, which has had a LOT of work put into it, has now been blatantly ripped off/stolen by 3 seperate shards. The reason I'm posting this here is that all 3 of these shards have been Sphere shards.

The website in question is found here: https://uolostlands.com

These 3 shards have stolen our website design, without permission, when it is clearly marked copyright at the bottom:
http://www.worldofuo.com/
http://www.dragonsoftime.com/ <-- also felt the need to post on our in game bulletin board advertising their shard, as if stealing our hard work was not a big enough of a "fuck you" to us.

The third shard which stole our website design, which was the first to do it, appears to now have shut down.

Does anyone in the Sphere community even care that this kind of business is being conducted by these shards? Even worse is that these shards operate on a profit model with no compensation to us (not that I would even accept said compensation, as our website is not for sale and our shard is not for profit).

In a community that is losing players over time, it is not a good thing that content is being stolen from original creators, as you may find that the people creating that content just leave the community and further kills our already shrinking community. This is complete scumbag behaviour.