Apparently the Bad Guys have arrived to Blogosphere: Blog Plagiarism is
on the rise. Here are a few articles on the subject:
Is Blog Plagiarism Growing–and are the Fakes Convincing?
But wait, the dude referred to in these post is doing hard work…
finding and copying other people’s original content is not easy… don’t
worry dude, help is on the way!
Apparently content theft is a big enough business to attract “tool providers” that will help automate theft … just look at this ad (which, by the way I quite innocently displayed on my blog via AdSense):
Quotes from the ad:
“· Take any content or article and have Blog-zilla manipulate, randomize, or merge text based on your rules.
· Grab keyword-related RSS feeds and auto-post directly to all your blogs.
· Never steal content, instead
generate your own and let Blog-zilla hatch unlimited variations all
customized to each blog’s target audience. (maybe you should read that
again!)”
Yes, they are right, you should read that again! Let me get this straight: if
I steal a lot of original content, then have some “intelligent” program
randomly mash them together, republish at a gazillion sites, it’s
no longer theft, right?
WRONG!
Technorati Tags: Plagiarism, Content Theft Blogs,Blogging,
Oh boy! I almost spit my coffee all over my laptop when I saw that BLOGZILLA picture! Then I clicked the link and almost vomited.
Wow, that’s an amazing graphic. Nice find!
Err, clicked before I left my name. Let’s try again. (this is not plagiarism, promise…)
“Wow, that’s an amazing graphic. Nice find!”
Heather Green
Not sure why I posted that anonymous… but that’s me SweatyBlog (Scott). Anyway, Michael Parekh continues the discussion here: http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/07/on_blog_plagiar_3.html
Sweaty
http://sweaty.blogs.com
More on blog plagiarism
Michael Parekh on BLOG PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE?. Michael continues the conversation about blog plagiarism and takes a serious look at Blog-zilla. Note, I first saw Blog-zilla on Zoli’s Blog. As Michael points out, Blog-zilla may just be a joke (as the
Plagiarism Made Easier – Or Not? (part 2.)
Today the Blog-Zilla uncloaked itself, and I wonder if I have to eat my words. Is it a product to automate content-theft, or a decent publishing tool?
Using RSS To Plagiarise Or Participate?
Zoli Erdos has two good posts (here and here) that aggregate pointers to and comment on some of the recent happenings in the space regarding the RSS (Really Simple Syndication protocol – feels kind of weird to do the acronym