Plagiarism with…Blogs?
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Aug 2nd, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives)“It’s one of my favorite subjects,” she said. “I make my living from my writing, and when people take it because they are ignorant of copyright laws–or think that because it’s on the Internet, it’s free–it makes me really mad. It’s stealing content, in my mind.”
VanFossen isn’t referring to the kind of plagiarism in which a lazy college student copies sections of a book or another paper. This is automated digital plagiarism in which software bots can copy thousands of blog posts per hour and publish them verbatim onto Web sites on which contextual ads next to them can generate money for the site owner.
Such Web sites are known among Web publishers as “scraper sites” because they effectively scrape the content off blogs, usually through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and other feeds on which those blogs are sent.”
From ZDnet
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