Good news, got an email back from Bill McRea and he wasn’t aware the WordPress developer had used Talian 05 backend for his new Passive Income WordPress Theme. He’d hired someone to create a new theme with the functionality of Talian 05 (which anyone can do if they have the PHP/WordPress skills), not hire someone to create a theme using copyright material from Talian 05. He’s removed the Passive Income WordPress Theme from sale, so happy with the result. Original Passive Income WordPress Theme by Bill McRea Review Looks like Bill McRea (author of Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin that a lot of Talian 05 customers use) has used the backend of version 5 of my Talian 5 AdSense theme […]
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Bill McRea Positive Review
Hi David
I need to come to the rescue of Bill McRea’s reputation here…
The reason I bought your template is because Bill *recommended it unreservedly* – saying he had bought it, loved it, and now used it on almost all of his sites.
He even gives a close-up of YOUR URL in one of the videos so we know where to go to buy it, as well as some instruction on how to use it.
Bill McRea Positive Review
Bill McRea Complaint : Questionable Business Practices
I’ve been restrained in what I think of what Bill McRea has done regarding the copying of the majority of the Talian 05 theme for his Passive Income ad theme.
Ethically it is questionable at best.
With your reasoning does this mean I can sell Bill McRea’s products with minor alterations including any copyright material owned by Bill McRea? For example it would take me a couple of hours to strip out the PHP obfuscation of the Massive Passive Profits Plugin with Masscreate included and market it as mine or even give it away for free. I’d consider that unethical, what about you Leigh.
Since writing the article above I’ve had a look at the Passive Income theme source code and it’s a clear copyright infringement.
All he’s done is get a WordPress theme developer to remove the Talian 05 look and extra SEO code and other extras and put a new ‘face’ on it, he’s even forgot to remove some of the code (code that’s taken me years to develop) that’s not used in the current templates look (it’s a poor job whoever did the coding).
David
Bill McRea Complaint : Questionable Business Practices
Bill McRea Recommended Talian 5 AdSense Theme
Hi David:
I agree with Leigh regarding Mr. McRea’s keen interest of the Talian theme at the beginning stages of his Massive Passive Profits (MPP) product launch. His training videos, and even his MPP site recommended your WP theme to be used for the MPP plugin.
However, the MPP forum site, unfortunately closed down, and lately, Mr. McRea appears to be back-peddling on his initial recommendations to complement the MPP plugin. I “sat” on his recent webinar about using a key word tool with MPP, and it was evident that he expressed a not-so-favorable response to his previous “add-on” recommendations to the MPP plugin.
I’m not sure what to make of Mr. McRea’s actions, but I’m not disappointed that I purchased the Talian theme. In fact, it’s doing well w/ the MPP plugin so far.
I hope your issues w/ Mr. McRea gets resolved soon.
Thanks!
Glenn
Bill McRea Recommended Talian 5 AdSense Theme
Bill McRea DMCA Complaint to Clickbank
DMCA Complaint – Take Notice sent to Clickbank regarding Bill McRea’s Passive Income WordPress Theme.
I’ve sent Clickbank a DMCA (DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT) takedown notice to Clickbank as he’s using/selling our copyright material without permission.
Also sent Bill McRea an email informing him of the issue.
Can’t believe I’m having to resort to this to protect Talian 05, you don’t expect this sort of unethical behavior from business men! WOW that sounded naive :-)
David
Bill McRea DMCA Complaint to Clickbank
Bill McRea Product Copyright Infringement
To anyone who buys Bill McRea’s Passive Income WordPress Theme if you use the copyright material in the theme, for example the banner images my wife made (she owns the images, she owns the copyright) you are infringing copyright.
We have the option to contact Google and send a DMCA notice for any sites running those banner images and Google will remove them from the Google search results. Never had to do this before, but believe you’d have to remove the copyright infringing material and inform Google it’s removed (understand it can take quite a lot of time to fix).
It would be really easy for me to find websites running the Passive Income WordPress Theme and check if they are using our copyright material.
David
Bill McRea Product Copyright Infringement
Bill McRea Product Review
Hi, the programmer son number 1 signing in.
Rights and wrongs don’t cancel themselves out. Al Capone was known in his time for his excellent charity work for the poor, that doesn’t balance out his other later actions. The same principle is applied here.
Ethically taking another developers work and selling it on as his (with no major modifications) without permission is wrong. Taking another developers work and selling it on without permission, and THEN not giving any credit is the programming equivalent of me digging up your grandmothers grave, turning her corpse upside down, and then urinating on it. No matter how much advertisement I do of a product it still doesn’t make it right. I use plenty of open source and commercial programs (Anyone looking to program should really look into Microsoft studio and Notepad++ :D), but that don’t give me the right to steal their work and sell it on as my own.
Not to mention taking the copyrighted content and selling it on as your own is against the law. Plain and simple. If he wanted to make use of the excellent product then he should have contacted my father privately. Thanks to my DRM system, the next version (Which kicks the ass of the previous one) will be available on Clickbank (Which ironically adding Clickbank ads is a feature of the theme). If anyone wants to promote the theme while taking a share of the money after this is set up then they are more then welcome (I will note that unlike Bill’s products, that have a reported refund rate of over 50%, Talian has single figure refund requests after 1000’s of orders.)
As a side note, I’ve been looking at both their hashed attempt at stealing Talian 05, and their previous plugins, and it’s a shamble mess of code. The person who coded it doesn’t deserve to be called a programmer. Their DRM systems are stupidly easy to code around, and the products overall…. the trash I throw out is worth more.
Bill McRea Product Review
Unethical Business Practices
This is unbelievable (almost) that someone would steal your hard work. I have been following you for years and know you put your heart and soul into this. Further, you are very generous with your information and help to others.
Bill McRea Massive Passive Profits Review
David,
When I first purchased Massive Passive Profits I became skeptical about Bill McRea’s true intentions because there was no more support forum as publicized in his promo materials. I thought that the MPP must be having problems that he no longer wanted to address or deal with.
McRea’s MPP was the reason I purchased your Talian 05 product (thanks Bill and I couldn’t be happier with Talian 05) and for him to “steal” your hard work is completely unethical and wrong! My first thought when using Talian 05 was that you had (most likely) a financial arrangement with McRea for MPP support because I was coming to you for MPP problem solving. I tried McRea’s support desk first (which took me 3 days to receive an answer, his promo says 24 hours) and that answer was half-answered. I surmised then that I would probably be having unanswered or half-answered support problems from then on.
For all of you viewers out there I just want to emphasize that it has been David Law that has helped me through my MPP problems… not any of Bill McRea’s poor excuse for a support system. My hats off to you David for acting and reacting like a very ethical businessman under these trying circumstances (something I couldn’t have done) and wish you great success with all of your product line.
Randy Nelson
Bill McRea Massive Passive Profits Review