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mammalwear aka Dylan DeLosAngeles is a boy, has been a member since July 15, 2008, has scored 4,752 submissions, giving an average score of 1.82, helping 60 designs get printed.

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Dec 06 '08 by mammalwear
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Ripped off in Indonesia

Whilst travelling in Yogyakarta, Indonesia last week, I was surprised (ok, maybe I wasn't really surprised) to see several tshirts for sale that had been ripped straight from threadless winning designs, but with some small changes, usually colours or the brandname somewhere conspicuous. I won't name the labels responsible, but I will list the designs I saw. I guess the artists can be happy that they are getting even more exposure. I mean, what do they care, they've been paid already.

The Morning After
Connect It
Baby Godzilla
and one other I can't remember atm.

d3d on Dec 06 '08 at 7:21am

go ahead and name the thieves. i'm in Canberra and I've seen a lot of threadless shirts bootlegged by a label called Digital Playground.

you can see a couple of them here.

mz. kat-ii on Dec 06 '08 at 7:32am

shit where do they sell those d3d?? :S in civic somewhere?

Neon Samurai on Dec 06 '08 at 7:58am

Dangerfield rips off a few threadless designs through their pulp kitchen label.

mammalwear on Dec 06 '08 at 7:59am

It doesn't matter, they aren't online. If you're in Yogyakarta, let me know, and I'll give you the names for your lawsuit :P

I must say though, Digital Playground are bold, online and all!

It is completely crap when people rip off others' designs, especially so unimaginatively. Doesn't threadless know or care about such bootlegs?

d3d on Dec 06 '08 at 8:16am

Cowboys&Angels in garema place. last time i was in there i found 4 or 5 different threadless tees.

Retroludo on Dec 06 '08 at 8:18am

You're in Canberra d3d? I totally just moved away from there after uni. That's crazy but yea I saw ripped shirts all the time in the used clothing section in Digital Playground too.

mz. kat-ii on Dec 06 '08 at 8:28am

hehe yeah i had a sneaking suspicion it would be that store

Neon Samurai on Dec 06 '08 at 8:36am

It's funny, I haven't been in Canberra for almost six years and that's where I though of too.

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CayMike on Dec 14 '08 at 11:08am

Lawsuits! Ha!

Copyright laws are not universal. There are places in the world, believe it or not, where the IP laws are lax or don't exist.

People rip off ideas all the time, legally or otherwise. As consumers, It's up to those who value the ideas to reward those who create them so they have the incentive to keep producing what we like. Otherwise, maybe those ideas weren't that valuable to begin with.

...and look how poorly the rip off was executed at the link d3d posted above. I don't think anyone would want any design, forget Tom Burns', that was printed that poorly.

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waddler on Sep 27 '09 at 10:51pm

Yeh i've seen a lot of shops in Thailand ripping off threadless, I reckon it's due to the full-size image being available. There's actually whole chains of shops there that only sell threadless ripoffs.

There are some good Thai manufacturers though, like molecule clothing, who seem to do a fair bit to help stop pirating.

Indonesia actually just moved back into the piracy watchlist, so submitting details of ripoff stores may well have an effect.

Robsoul on Sep 27 '09 at 11:17pm

http://www.threadless.com/profile/146590/fastjumper/blog/74091/Wanna_see_the_REAL_threadless_ripping_off_go_to_Thailand_or_just_check_this_blog

actually saw some thai threadless ripoffs in a local store the other day too

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