How is this a rip?

[Moh]

I see your point with the border, but the reason why I'm annoyed about HabbCrazy is that it looks like the navigation has been screenshot, copied and pasted.

All I see is a 216x27 box filled with #333333 and some text. goldfish, size 9, 1px border.

[Awfy]

Best not to list things when trying to prove you haven't ripped, makes the ripping offence sound worse...

Also anyone noticed the word "RIP" in a thread title brings a lot of users to it...

[zeJosh]

Simon, you made a thread about it.

[craigg.]

Clean room design:

Clean room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights and trade secrets associated with the original design. Clean room design is useful as a defense against copyright and trade secret infringement because it relies on independent invention. However, because independent invention is not a defense against patents, clean room designs typically cannot be used to circumvent patent restrictions.

The term implies that the design team works in an environment that is 'clean', or demonstrably uncontaminated by any knowledge of the proprietary techniques used by the competitor.

Typically, a clean room design is done by having someone examine the system to be reimplemented and having this person write a specification. This specification is then reviewed by a lawyer to ensure that no copyrighted material is included. The specification is then implemented by a team with no connection to the original examiners.

that will simply rule out the idea of "ripping". Jack should not be made to remove/edit his layout so long as he hasn't printscreened/copied any image from HabobLake.