The Xeroxer is X-Rayed and then X-Posed
Update (thanks to gvenum) :
Have a look at ragzp's
blog. He's copied several posts from
yumnyum and
lazygeek. He has even copied yumnyum's design !
And wonder of wonders he even has one of my posts !! I wrote sometime before about the comics and serials we grew up in the 80's
here and Mr.Ravi Shankar has blissfully copied it
here.
I wonder how many more of these kinds we have lurking in the crooks and crannies of the blogsphere. Too bad that he is from Hyderabad, my home town ..
Unbelievable, so stupid that you can ultimately only laugh at it.
There is this guy Mr. Rohit Pinto from San Jose whose
entire blog as in each and every post is plagiarised from well known bloggers. The irony is that his blog is called, "life unscripted - a window in my world". It should rather be called "life copied - peeping through the windows of others".. :).
Here are examples :
Rohit Pinto on the
call center controversy. The exact same, word to word
post, from the original blogger. This guy had even copied the comments. :))
A post on a technical issue
here at apress and the same post
here on Mr.Pinto's blog.
Find more such examples on Shanti's blog
here.
What was this guy thinking ? Why is he doing it ? One possible reason as Shanti suggests is for Google AdSense revenue ? He could have atleast been a little clever and added some of his own comments, changed the language. If you notice, its not like he is quoting them or anything of that sort, even if all his posts would have acknowledged the original posts and copied them, it wouldn't have been such a big deal, but this is plainly incredulous . If you are just going to copy others works verbatim, then why have a blog at all ? Apart from the serious issue of copyright infringement and passing of someone else's work as your own, what satisfaction does he get in being a Ctrl V and a Ctrl C junkie ? Don't you want to blog so that you can express some original opinion about what you are reading and experiencing around you ?