I was browsing for reference information on Wikipedia, and came upon an Aika Mitsui fansite. I was really excited, because I planned to make one myself but if someone had beat me to it I thought that was showing good initiative. So, imagine my surprise when the layout looked eerily familiar. I knew it was a free layout, and it only took me a few minutes to find where it had come from: dixy-pixy.org.  Here is a preview of the original layout.  Now, I know most design makers don’t allow people to edit their layout, but I had to make sure, especially since aikamitsui.free.fr lacked any credit for the original maker. Sure enough, this text is right from the layout’s preview:

"Please do not remove the credits. And please do not modify the image. Thank you."

The person from aikamitsui.free.fr poorly edited the image so that Aika Mitsui was the main feature.
Now it’s been a long time since I’ve actually caught anyone thieving layouts but it always makes me a little angry when I see it happening. People put a lot of hard work into their layouts and just ask for a little credit and respect not to edit their hard work. Seeing someone have the audacity to not only do one, but do both, is a little more than sickening.  The worst part about it?  The creator accepting compliments on the layout s/he didn’t even make.  Blech.