Holy copyright infringement Batman!
Yesterday morning, I took a stroll over Shonari’s blog. There he wrote about someone stealing content from his financial blog. So I, just out of curiosity, decided to check Copyscape to see if anyone was stealing my content. I check every now and again, but the only results I normally get are my own feeds. But not today. I found some loser had copied the bulk of my post on Marion Jones, and fused it with one from my name-esis, Leon, on the same topic. They say “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Well I was not flattered. And what pissed me off the most is that they didn’t even have the decency to link back to me, or at least acknowledge that I wrote it. I would’ve been cool with that. But no, this person gets both our well thought out and carefully constructed posts, scrunches them together with the finesse of The Hulk and has the audacity to pass them off as his/her own!
I immediately alerted Leon, hoping that we may launch a co-ordinated assault on him/her. An hour or so later, I fought out that he pulled a Dubya and launched a pre-emptive strike on his blog. I planned to join in, but studying for a Decision Science test (my most challenging subject) and the demands of Circle K quickly ate up what little time I had. So it decided to post about it today. But when I checked, lo and behold, the incriminating posts were missing! No surprise. We Leons are pretty intimidating. I mean why do you think Leonidas was such a badass? Still, I do feel robbed of my chance to put in my few punches by sending some hate traffic over there when the evidence was in full view. But if you stroll over to it’s cached page on Copyscape, you’ll probably still see them. So boys and girls, the lesson of this story is, DON’T F**K WITH MY BLOG!
Yeah to Leon, kick some ass dude ..yipppeeee…. hate those pirate fuckers
did a scan as well, no copies yet but i’m prepared to go to war for my content!
Plagiarism — bane of writers’ existence. Soh it reach de blog now. (sigh) Some people!
wow…After all your hard work to be copied sucks….
But Leon……You cuss????
Sorry man. That really sucks.. I”ve seen worse. I’ve seeen people copy code.. which really annoy me as a programmer. There’s this site entertainment jade which stole code from events.in876.com and they even hotlinked to some scripts we wrote and used it to present data similarly… Disgusting.
I’m glad you caught this guy before things got out of hand. I wonder if he really thought he could pass off your writing as his own and get away with it. He’s not only a thief, but also delusional.
Actually Marangand, I don’t cuss in real life, but this pissed me off so much that I just had to act out of character and drop a F-bomb. Nothing helps you vent quite like it.
damn i always learn the most interesting things on this blog..
Kick his behind out of the blogsphere…we got ur back
Hey
You mention being copied as the “best form of flattery”
I agree but it’s really hard to swallow when you discover that not only has someone copied your website “word for word” but they have also knicked your business model- nothing to do but move on I guess?
wow that copy space thing is good
Happened to me once..that I know of.