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Unfortunately it's quite common to come acrosss websites that have either had their template ripped or literally the whole site has been ripped and duplicated somewhere else.

More shocking can be that some of the people doing this blatant copying are actually offering services to people and have just gone ahead and copied a template straight from another website that offers the same sort of service.

It's understandably frustrating for the original site owner when this happens, they may have spent a good amount of money having a custom template designed and putting a lot of time and effort into their content and how it is presented.

The last thing that a website wants is to find a site that looks just like theirs because their template has been stolen or even worse duplicate content appears within the search engines because the rippers have copied literally everything.

Often if you contact the admin of a website that has copied yours then you will not usually get anywhere with regards to getting them to take down what essentially is yours and they generally wont reply to you, after all, they have had the cheek and arrogance to copy straight from your website so it's unlikely that they will be willing to cooperate with you in anyway.

What you can do though regarding this matter is to contact their web hosting provider, any decent and helpful web hosting provider will make sure that the matter gets dealt with and will get the customer to remove any content or template that has been stolen and may possibly suspend their account too.

Other than that, there is often nothing else that can be done,  it's like a constant battle between honest websites and those that choose to rip from them.

If the web hosting provider of the site that has ripped content decides to do nothing then it may be that the host is quite shady in general and allows pretty much anything to be hosted on their servers.

But usually you should get somewhere with most web hosts when you explain what one of their customers is doing, as they wont want to be associated with this.