A step to far. We don't need more script kiddies copying thing. The fact that you can point it at a website or software product to one click make a copy and rebrand it to your own is dispicable and gross. I have built a few things now (see below) that have both now been copied, rebranded, and code stolen. Yeah the things I am doing COULD be recreated by anyone, but it took me a ton of work and research to gather the urls, find the data sources to call, to identify the selectors, work out how to send off API calls when the selectors don't work, etc.. The craft is in the design, choice of partners/dependencies, and actual tech that goes into building something. People are straight up stealing it and there is zero recourse or accountability. This will end badly.
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I have found that running whois on domains to identify creation dates is a good filter for identifying who is copying who.
domainage() { curl -sL "https://rdap.org/domain/$1" | jq -r '.events[] | select(.eventAction=="registration") | .eventDate' }