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While Governments try to clamp down on piracy and stress on copy rights, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s own website turns out to be breaching copyright. The above image has been taken from the CSS file of the Prime Minister’s website. But the theme on which it is based hasn’t been credited. The theme NetWorker is available under Creative Commons 3.0 license, which requires the user to use the theme in the same way or even modified but credit to the author is required. There should be a link in the footer of the theme but it has been removed.

[Image Credit: Torrent Freak]

Anthony from antbag.com, the author of the theme discovered that his NetWorker theme although heavily modified is being used while breaking the Creative Commons license. Although the web site itself claims to be protected by Crown Copyright, clearly it isn’t doing a good job of protecting other’s rights.

According to Torrent Freak

Anthony sent an email to the company who developed the site who claimed that although they did some testing on the NetWorker theme, they then rebuilt it from scratch. Unfortunately, according to Anthony “they failed to remove the credits in the CSS file that named the theme ‘NetWorker’ or to change the theme folder which is named ‘NetWorker-10′ (Networker version 1.0).”

There’s no denying that Mr PM is stealing as we know it. It’s a shock that they very people who try to protect copy rights, break them too. Such as the MPAA who is stealing code as well. No wonder people rally behind rebels such as The Pirate Bay! More power to them!