Why do some websites insist on plagiarizing?
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:01 am
One of my biggest pet peeves is websites taking content from another publication (printed or online) and using it at their own. Quite often they'll copy the entire article word for word and give no credit to the original author. Other times, they'll change or add a few paragraphs, but the overall content is the same.
Tonight, I saw another case of this. A website that will remain unnamed copied this article from Silicon Optix:
Home Theater December 2005: Going Shopping
The plagiarizers changed the first paragraph but the rest is essentially the same. Are they this hard up for articles and/or news? Do they not care that they are plagiarizing? I guess not as this isn't the first time this website has done this. Heck, its not the first time this week.
Tonight, I saw another case of this. A website that will remain unnamed copied this article from Silicon Optix:
Home Theater December 2005: Going Shopping
The plagiarizers changed the first paragraph but the rest is essentially the same. Are they this hard up for articles and/or news? Do they not care that they are plagiarizing? I guess not as this isn't the first time this website has done this. Heck, its not the first time this week.