“Fine words! I wonder where you stole ‘em.”
Posted in Mad Rantings on 05/14/2010 07:04 pm by MissAthenaHollow(btw, quote by Jonathan Swift)
I don’t get people who are in sound mind, let alone those who feel it’s ‘cool’ to completely rip off bloggers and artists.
I was recently made aware of a blogger who is going by Elizabeth Shibboleth using the google blogging platform: Blogspot.com, is totally screwing over a great deal of awesome, witty, nerdy writers by flat out stealing their posts and claiming them as his/her own.
I logged into facebook and saw this post from Hyperbole and a Half’s own Allie Brosh:
Oh holy shit… this girl is the worst plagiarist ever! She’s stolen multiple posts from me and Matt Inman of The Oatmeal, as well as several other well-known websites. I haven’t checked the whole site, but she’s been blogging for a really long time, so who knows how many other things she’s stolen.
She changes tiny details of posts (or just posts the text from a comic) and tries to pass it off as her own work. For example, she re-drew my pain chart and thought that somehow that made it okay.
She does not get 24 hours notice. Attack now please.
Wow…. I mean, I totally get the want/desire to be famous, but quit Milli Vanilliing yourself ya dumb twatwaffle! Mr./Mrs. Shibboleth’s posts can be found http://elizabeth-shibboleth.blogspot.com/ She’s been sent a 24 hour take-down notice of all of Allie’s work, and I assume that the word will get around and her blog will most likely be gone by sunrise…. but if not, let’s make sure it doesn’t happen anymore from this little cunt nugget.
Moral of the story: If you are going to be so bold to rip someone off, at least have the decency to link back to their posts ffs. It’s not hard and most bloggers greatly appreciate the traffic, as long as you aren’t trying to claim or even pretend it was somehow pulled out of your ass instead of their heads.
Plagiarism is bad, mkay?
