It's time to go public - this has gone out of control and needs to be addressed

[Jim]

Originally posted by RawAlex
Kush, I have some very bad news for you...

In the real world, every day people copy other people's ideas in marketing and advertising and attempt to use them to get ahead. Many times, they don't even bother to change the words at all, except to point to their product rather than another one.

In TV, reality shows got popular, and suddenly everyone had one. Who wants to be a Millionaire strikes it big, and suddenly everyone wants an evening, 1 hour, mega dollar game show.

To be totally honest with you, your page on reality porn is in my bookmarks, and has been for a while. What do you think it is there for? Once your marketing concept is out there in the public and can be viewed, it will be copied, duplicated, and mimiced all over the net for traffic. I regularly look at pages that return good results for various phrases looking to see what the patterns are. It's normal. I'm not just going to read webmaster boards and do what is suggested, come on!

As someone else suggested, get thicker skin. It happens, it sucks, move on and build a better mousetrap yet. :-)

Alex

And let's not forget the Big and Tasty at McDonalds which is a copy of the whopper from Burger King and whatever BK calls their copy of the Big Mac.

Shit happens