DOWN WITH PLAGIARISM ! Need Your Help.

You seen my post on A Direct Copy-Paste.

Inspite of advice to the contrary by 3 out of 4 of my well wishers, I have gone ahead and put a writeup up on my sites home page, about plagiarism of WinVistaClubs content. In fact I was told to let go... but I am one who is dictated to, by my heart ... sometimes; and I just couldn't resist posting the copy-paste incident there, if not for anything else, then atleast to bring it to the attention of all !

Have a look at www.winvistaclub.com

The issue is actually bigger: and its called Plagiarism; and it will affect us all some time or the other! Again, this is not a new story actually ! In fact 'No Big Deal' for most ! But its just that its WinVistaClub's turn to suffer from it now.

Now I know it wont change anything, but atleast I will have done my part in bringing out a general wrong out in the open!

I have to ask you to please support me... Can you please Digg IT Here.

What will I achieve ??? Dont know ... but I/we will atleast have the satisfaction of having done something to bring out a wrong.

And yes, while on the topic, there is a nice write-up here at Microsoft about 5 ways to guard against Web site content theft. And also one at LabnolBlogspot. For How To Respond To Plagiarism, this CopyScape article is useful.

PS : This post has been OK'd by FatBeing.

Internet is a Bad Place man, There is nothing you can quite do about it

You can try contacting the Admin of the site which is Plagiarizing your Articles and ask him to give you proper attribution, Other than that there is nothing that can actually be done.

Many Sites, even Yahoo had Plagiarized.

Dugg !!! about commenting I think I alredy gave my views last night...

It's good that you're not letting it go. Plagiarism is a major threat to people who actually create original content, putting a lot of time and effort into what they create.

Dugg.

Dugg...

Really how to stop this man?

See this blog below, 3 articles direct copy-paste from my blog and no mention of source.

Copied - *my.opera.com/TaiTos/blog/2007/09/0...rectly-from-hard-disk-without-burning-any-dvd
Origimal - *instantfundas.blogspot.com/2007/08/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.html

Copied - *my.opera.com/TaiTos/blog/2007/09/01/1-gigabyte-is-not-equal-to-1024-megabytes
Original - *instantfundas.blogspot.com/2007/08/1-gigabyte-is-not-equal-to-1024_22.html

Copied - *my.opera.com/TaiTos/blog/show.dml/1295168
Original - *instantfundas.blogspot.com/2007/08/will-this-game-run-on-my-pc.html

^ good u left a comment on that blog ! yr blogs nice btw.

i also sent a letter to adsense-abuse@google.com stating that he was earning adsense revenue from content copied from my site.

see at the end of the day, it dznt matter if it all helps, imo. what gives me more satisfaction is that i tried my best ;-)

at making a noise. see if he is on stumbleupon and leave a coment at his site/postings. i did that too ! i also left comments at his diggit posts about his copypasting. u can try that too. i had written a email to this website which i got from whois, but it bounced as delivery failed...

thanx to all those who dugg...

I understand anand how hurted you would be. After seeing your advert for winvistaclub somewhere near Hinjewadi.

dugged, hope it helps

dugg!

Dugged

You have a copyright notice on your site. But do you have any legal document protecting your content? Have a look at these links for a license.
*creativecommons.org/
*creativecommons.org/license/

Plagiarism is a disease. Send the guys some e-flowers (a-la Munnabhai :))

) and hope that they get well soon.

But in any case, the content on the web is pretty open to all. Expect it to get copied. If there is some really sensitive copy-righted material that harms you financially if it gets copied, don't put it on web! I know it's unfair, but that is how the web-works. You are sharing the information with the world. Some will re-use that info legitimately, some illegitimately.

Anyway, you have reported to Adsense abuse. Please keep us posted about the output.

^ CC looks interesting.

can i change the description of the post i made in diggit? coudnt find the edit button...

thank u all.

i will keep u'l posted about adsense output.

Thanks anandk for submitting on Digg. And you did a good job by reporting it to adsense.

Leaving a remark on that blog who copied from mine worked too. The copied content is now gone!!