<< It looks different enough now, sure they worked it out! THink about it everyone, so much SHT out there is similar, most of the code (menu systems, form check code, etc) they are using is in the public domain. As well, a copyright on the homepage of any site really only covers content, the basic layout of the site is argued legally to be in the public domain. Unless a patent is filed and approved on the website layout (as it exists today) then nobody owns it. >>
LOL!!!!
Copyright covers content, appearance, and even code. And it covers each independently, so changing the appearance but keeping the Javascript code doesn't make the copyright violation against the code any less. Copyright is granted automatically at the time of creation. It doesn't require any filing or even notice. It doesn't matter if the markup or code, like HTML or Javascript, is viewable in the source. If you understood copyright law you would know just how wrong you are.
Javascript snippets that say something like, "You may use this code so long as you include this author information..." don't mean that code is in the public domain. What that statement is is a grant of limited copyright. The author is granting people the right to copy his code, but they must follow certain restrictions like crediting the author and not modifying it without permission, basically whatever that statement says. It may be common practice to steal code and rewrite it, but that doesn't make it legal, and the author as the copyright holder has the right to sue the pants off anyone who does so.
Trust me. If I find that anyone else has "lifted" my code, my design, or anything else, I have a few good lawyers who are happy to get involved. They have before, and they will again.
(I am not affiliated with AnandTech, I am not a lawyer, and my comments are not directly reflective of any possible legal action regarding the discussion at hand.)