Comments on: Fine Gael website v2.0 up, overnight success???

By: Digest – Jan 31 2010 – The Story

Digest – Jan 31 2010 – The Story — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:41:54 +0000

[...] Russian freelancers and used the intellectual property of another organisation (then attempted to pretend they didn’t do anything of the sort) to keep the website running? Fair play to Senator Donohue for bringing the figures to light all [...]

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:49:53 +0000

‘Its online, it works, and its not going anywhere’ – Except it has; it is marginally less BBC-like again now.

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:48:50 +0000

Oh, dear, this is rather embarrassing. For extra fun, please see the local news section of the new site…

Hmm, lovely Fine Gael astroturfers, what precisely is your party’s policy on copyright theft? When other people do it, I mean.

Also, it’s really just a dreadful website. As is the new BBC site; if you must rip off someone else’s work, consider trying someone talented next time.

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:34:24 +0000

Great detective work, Steph. It is to be expected that the party’s attempts at damage limitation are based more on denial than on full and forthright disclosure.

I love this in the Tribune piece: “a frenzy of online techno comments”. It makes bloggers sound like a cabal of 2 Unlimited fans.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:26:38 +0000

what a horrible website. the fact that content exists in tabs, inside portals is ridiculous enough, but the font choice is enough to put me off food – it’s barely readable!

can’t believe they took the code and used it – i could understand “inspiration” just not blatant theft.

@red – followed the link and there’s actually a project won by same bidder, for a “website similar to bbc.co.uk”:

http://www.getafreelancer.com/users/445742.html

look under “Last Won Projects” – “Web portal – Ajax + PHP + mySql”…links to:

http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/PHP-XML/Web-portal-Ajax-PHP-mySql.html

coincidence?

By: Maman Poulet » Cheap Job, Badly Done.

Maman Poulet » Cheap Job, Badly Done. — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:07:23 +0000

[...] However by this stage Steph had released examples of code, a video of how it was discovered and closed the case on the fact that the site design was a rip off. [...]

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:03:37 +0000

Ahahaha!

Three words for whoever in Fine Gael might read this- intellectual property & plagiarism.

Learn the legal meaning of the first concept, followed by a quick trip to your local university in which any kindly lecturer shall explain the concept of plagiarism to you.

@Stephen Behan- The FG website is amongst one of the worst laid-out website I’ve seen in a while. Your main menu has dead links in it and doesn’t even offer a link to FG policy, which one has to scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a link for. While I’m sure you’re depending on Mr. Kenny’s warm and fuzzy personality to draw in the voters, it might also be useful to actually show highlight some of your policies. Your party amongst other political parties needs to catch up with the present and realise that most people are getting their information from the Internet. Your website is not a “great tool”, it’s a token gesture.

Incidentally I was going to link Steph’s post to my local FG TDs but I couldn’t find contact details for them on your website. What a shocker!

By: Red

Red — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:59:30 +0000

Hmmm…. webiste courtesy of Getafreelancer.com. Fine Gael got it done for cheap in Russia. Note the review halfway down the page.

http://www.getafreelancer.com/users/feedback_445742.html

By: pp3

pp3 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:00:37 +0000

From the BBC.co.uk terms and conditions

“You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use bbc.co.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any bbc.co.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/#3

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:35:38 +0000

supprised they have no link on the site to the piratebay.org