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To: wolfcreek

Why would you want to?

It’s probably closer to infringement than it is to plagiarism
but it’s bad mojo any way you slice it. Screws up the search
function, resulting in thread duplication.

In the blogging community, however, it’s considered a valid
way to steal.. er, create content. Change the title, change
a phrase or two and PRESTO! An original blog post!


3 posted on 07/07/2011 5:14:48 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
I don't want to. It was a debate with a friend.

Apparently newspapers can freely change the title of articles they reprint. (to suit their political slant)

It really messes up the search function.

5 posted on 07/07/2011 5:25:57 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: humblegunner

Most stealing that goes on in the blogging community has to do with sites that automatically snarf up articles and republish the whole thing with a small ‘link to original’ at the bottom.

Yes there are some crap bloggers out there but most of the ones worth reading don’t steal.


8 posted on 07/07/2011 5:54:17 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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