Plagiarism?
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| Author | Content |
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| bigg Apr 11, 2009 3:30 PM EDT |
It's not a complete copy of this arstechnica piece, but it's pretty close, and some of the sentences are exactly the same: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/first-look-f... Perhaps this website exists just to get clicks by either copying other websites or putting a little window dressing on their articles? I'm the world's least observant person (ask my wife or anyone who knows me, I could be on fire and not notice it for twenty minutes) and this is the second "similar" article I've noticed in two days, so if it's plagiarism, it won't be hard to catch. Maybe the website has permission, I have no way to know. |
| tuxchick Apr 11, 2009 3:33 PM EDT |
If they have permission it should be posted with the article. The Linux swap article is a word-for-word copy of a 2007 article from Cyberciti.biz. I'm not using anything from this site on Brand X until I know if they have permission to use these articles. |
| tuxchick Apr 11, 2009 3:42 PM EDT |
p.s.-- I really have to watch it these days. Since the first of the year I've seen a torrent of new sites that I call "bottom feeders." They're either some kind of lame aggregators, or blogs that are no more than warmed-over re-hashes of someone else's articles, with no new insights or information. Just bad plagiarism. And they all want LT to link to them. Sorry kids, it's not going to happen. |
| Scott_Ruecker Apr 11, 2009 7:29 PM EDT |
I'm pulling it. |
| hkwint Apr 11, 2009 7:42 PM EDT |
TC: Here's some help: Threaten them that someone sometime will come to look for their money (mention "pertaining to Intellectual Property" to sound more balanced), and if not, ask your government to influence WTO to influence India to stop this theft of Intellectual Property. OK, I have to admit this method was plagiarized from 'some company' which also earns money by plagiarizing and probably that company patented that business method as well. OK, here's the quote: Quoting:Some day, for all countries that are entering WTO (World Trade Organization), somebody will come and look for money to pay for the patent rights for that intellectual property. and the original - and not the quoted ones on gazillion websites - is here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2003/11-13busi... Where's International IP police if you need them? |
| NoDough Apr 13, 2009 1:53 PM EDT |
>> Where's International IP police if you need them? They're not police. They're mercenaries. |
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