Manterest.org Ripping Off Our Site/Logo & Defacing Our Brand. What Can We Do?
Hey guys, cofounder of Manteresting.com here. Recently we've been getting a lot of attention. Outlets from BuzzFeed, Maxim and Bloomberg to Refinery29 and Jezebel have written about us. I've even been invited to speak on PlayBoy Radio next week.<p>The attention is great, we're grateful to have the exposure and have seen our traffic increase by 1000% in a single week.<p>Media has been mostly positive with people supporting the idea through comments, tweets and FB messages. Ladies and gents appreciate that we filled a need in the market left by Pinterest's 80% female user base, and find our content refreshingly different and recognize that we are a bunch of stand-up guys (and girls!).<p>But with all the attention, I guess we should have expected this, we've been completely ripped off.<p>Check this out:<p><img src="http://bit.ly/14weZWf" /><p>And this is our site, early revision:<p><img src="http://bit.ly/10njSdj" /><p>Not only do they rip off our name, they actually stole our v1 logo. Technology aided this ripoff as these guys just threw up a WordPress theme with Pinterest-esque qualities and went to town posting affiliate links.<p>The worst part is that their navigation includes "Boobs" and "Sex" -- the majority of negative press we get argues that we are a bunch of pervs sitting around with our hands down our pants and we only post pictures of naked girls when in fact, nudity of any kind is against our TOS, we encourage our users to be respectful of women and we police our content nearly 24/7 between the founders and community volunteers.<p>These guys are just trying to profit from the recent press and seeing as I found them through a Google search, they probably are. We've spawned legitimate clones before (I won't name names) but to yank our logo and hope we don't notice? That's pretty bold.<p>PG, thougts? What would you guys do?
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