Valhalla Island

Logomaid stole Simplebits‘ logo and then put it in their online store for sale. Then Logomaid had the gall to threaten to sue Simplebits in the comments thread on the Flickr photo.

If you have eyes, you’ll see it’s an obvious rip off. What follows in the comment thread from Logomaid is so low that it’s hard to comprehend the fact such scumbags exist.

From an email Dan received from Logomaid -

Please contact your designer regarding that issue, as if he did several concepts for you, it’s very likely he sold the concepts you didn’t use…

Obviously idiots. But it gets better -

The main shape according to our designer is a font symbol and you do not have the rights to claim ownership to freeware font symbols.

Other than the actual shape, I see no relevance.

First of all, it’s not a freeware font. Secondly, that’s bullshit. Then Logomaid weighs in on the thread -

We are strongly considering a lawsuit against simplebits not only because of the logo, but also the fact that you are harming our goodwill.

Goodwill… What? After a few attacks on LM, they bring out the “we’re so experienced and great, just look at some of our big name clients even though it’s irrelevant” card -

Thanks for your opionion Mike. Although logomaid.com is up no longer than 2 years, our company is in the design and new media business since 98. We did campaigns for customers like Vodafone, T-Online, Nextra, Citroen etc.

Immediately after that comment, they insult Dan -

Did you ever think someone may have the same idea like you…rotating 4 brackets? Or do you think this idea is so unique that only you could create something so “sophisticated”?

Mike points out that Logomaid have done it before with the Unison logo from Panic. The first item on the second page of rip offs.

Greg Storey suggests a fund for fighting rip offs. I don’t know if this is what it’ll take but it may help.

There’s a lot more back and forths with this Paul scoundrel. He comes out with “Right, if we were doing illegal business activies I would spend 4 hours online clearing up the issue.” He hasn’t been clearing up anything, Mike gets it right -

No, Paul, you’d spend 4 hours online trying to JUSTIFY doing illegal business.

These people are running an illegal business. I’m sure the deeper we dig into the Logomaid Website the more rip offs we’d find. I’m sure the only way to stop these thieves is to expose them as the criminals they are.