Links across the Internet are spreading fast…so I am sure you probably already know or have read about this. LogoMaid was called out for, what is evident to everyone, the copied/lifted/what ever you want to call it…logo recently released for SimpleBits new design.

Here are a few examples that others have posted:

You can also follow a long discussion on the flickr post made by Dan. Soon after Dan posted about this, John Gruber made a post that hit the front page of Digg. Not soon after I read through most of those I flipped over to one of my other frequent sites. There it was, another rip by LogoMaid, this time they hit the Godbit Project.

I am sure there’s not a lot that can be done here. I am sure it’ll all calm down after a while. But the past few months I have seen this sinking trend of rips and lifts that’s placing a cloud over this industry for me. Maybe I am getting too involved with it…and maybe I need to back off and just worry about myself and my work. But when I see well respected and internet gurus/standardistas like Dan and those at 31three.com get copied/stolen/whatever (see where http://www.thecity.org/ was lifted by this guy’s adventure site, and yes he even took the css almost completely and then in the about page said it’s all his.) I feel compelled to at least follow suit and let it be known.

So this post is my voice, and I’ll leave it at this…this post.