Comments on: Regator Looks Mighty Familiar

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By: Mike Stopforth » Afrigator Speaks To Regator, Issue Resolved

Mike Stopforth » Afrigator Speaks To Regator, Issue Resolved — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:17:40 +0000

[...] the Afrigator team and I made a big stink about how we thought Regator looked a whole lot like our project. As is often the case I think we [...]

By: Scott Lockhart

Scott Lockhart — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:13:02 +0000

I had the pleasure of chatting with Justin and the afrigator guys today and they have retracted what they said earlier about Regator doing anything close to copyright infringement as our site is anything but identical to theirs, even by coincidence, once they actually saw the site and we had a chat. They are good guys and this was just a misunderstanding that snowballed. Shows you can’t believe everything you hear on the internet…
You can see Justin’s post here: http://justinhartman.com/2008/07/04/regatorcom-...
Cheers Mike!

By: Robin Pietersen

Robin Pietersen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:08:46 +0000

Thanks for the mention Mike. It’s an interesting situation.

FYI – The link to my blog is missing a ‘b’, correct link is noboxmedia.com :-)

By: vincent

vincent — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:02:43 +0000

Whoa, just read about this on Justin Hartman’s blog; the coincidence is a little too uncanny to believe. It kind of sucks as I’m not sure what the legal steps you could take to defend your intellectual property; unless of course you’ve patented the idea and copyrighted all imagery?

What you can do is put a strong boot up the aussies ass, and as Shaun said it gives you even more motivation to take Afrigator to the next level.

By: stii.za.net » Blog Archive » Afrigator vs Regator

stii.za.net » Blog Archive » Afrigator vs Regator — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:38:37 +0000

[...] is some more on this issue: Regator Looks Mighty Familiar – Mike Stopforth Regator.com steals our brand – coincidence? – Justin Hartman Shocking: Regator rip off Afrigator – [...]

By: Shaun Dewberry

Shaun Dewberry — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:34:05 +0000

I wouldn’t want to be in Afrigator’s shoes on this. This spells a lot of work to come.

I must admit it is nice to see some competition in the ol’ aggregation space. Don’t let it upset you. Competition will hopefully make you build an even better product. Afrigator has a big head start there. (Existing brand/audience etc).

Or if you want to get upset, just think about how angry Technorati should be with all of you. Or how Digg should hate Muti.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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Regator - Perfect example of how Africa gets used | Web AddiCT(s); — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:06:02 +0000

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By: nicharalambous.com » Blog Archive » Shocking: Regator rip off Afrigator

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:24:10 +0000

[...] and Mike both speak out against this and I think it’s important that we all try and add our voices to [...]

By: SheBee

SheBee — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:01:14 +0000

Wow. I hope you guys have some sort of protection clause for this kind of thing?