Stealing, and copying ..

With blogs becoming popular these days, everyone wants to start up a blog. But once the blog is up, some people wont know what to write in there (or they are too lazy!). So.. what do they do ?

Yes. … you guessed it write! Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V. Copy. Steal.

The first such major incidence in the Indian Blog Sphere came into full limelight when a blogger called Rohan Pinto started copying posts from other blogs (which he thought were intresting) on his blog without proper attribution. And, he got back what he deserved! (A search of his name on google would show the results). Rohan ended up pulling down his site, and issuing a public apology for his innocent copying act.

Then, there was this case where one of the Neha’s posts was convienently copied!. (I love the first comment!)

Then the next one that gained quite a lot of attention was the post by Jagadish called ” IT is not like that !“. Its an Kannada+English mix post which was widely forwarded by mail as “….yavaag foreign ge ?”, and quite a lot of folks posted it on their blog (including me!, but with proper attribution). Some did not know who the original author was, and they posted it saying that they received it as a mail forward. That’s fine too, since they did not claim that they wrote the post.

Now, whats interesting about this episode is, one lady converted that post from Kannada+English to Tamil+English with the title “eppo foreign pore ?”, and posted it on her blog claiming that she was the original author! That too a month after the original post was made. The original author was notified by a third person about this!!! But Jagadish did a fantastic job in this regard and the effect is …. the Lady’s blog + profile is no more on the net! (but you can still it on Google cache for some more time)

The latest victim of plagiarism is of a blogger by the name Suyog, who had posted a photo on his blog. This photo was picked by an advertising company and used it one of their campaigns without Suyog’s permission. ie, for commercial purpose, and this episode too has evoked a strong response from bloggers! [Via Kribs]

Just wondering what next..?

7 comments | December 9th, 2005 at 10:16am