I found a pirated copy of my Microsoft – Adobe: Much Ado About Nothing post on Technorati. It was lifted verbatim, except the address got changed to “Microsoft & PDF’s“. I am not a top-blogger, but am already quite used to my content being republished, but normally with attribution to me, and I don’t really care. In this case there was no attribution, the “author” made it look like his original post.
I left a comment, calling it shameless theft, and voila, a little later the post is gone, and this is what I found instead:
“So I left my computer for a few minutes today after updating the blog software and came back to see a post re the MS & Adobe issue on my blog. Kinda funny how it got here coz I never posted it. I did post something about the issue on HWG.
Oh, and if anyone cares…I hate pdf files so if they weren’t included it wouldn’t bother me any.”
Interesting…. has someone set him up? I guess he’s still better off than poor Jack Bauer.
Or if he’s not a victim of sophisticated crime, does my feed have magic powers, planting itself on other people’s blogs?
(I am not pointing to the blog in question, after all he took “offending” post off … let him live in piece peace…)
Freudian slip there – let him live in piece – hwo many pieces!
BTW I stole your PDF piece also, but made it better -)
Haha, that’s good, thanks for catching it, Vinnie! Fixed now.
My blog posting about the status of QuarkXPress got reposted, verbatim, on a clothing spam blog. I have no idea why.
No comments, either, so I can’t really do anything about it.
All that I have to say is welcome to the wide world of plagiarism online. I’m glad that the issue was resolved. However, the excuse really is quite old. I can’t even begin to count the number of plagiarists that fed me that line or one similar to it.
A quick note to Sarah, there is plenty that you can do about it. If you wish, you can contact me and I’ll see what I can do to help. Just use the contact form on my site…
Congrats on getting the issue resolved!