Isn't that plagiarism?

[cyrano]

This has pissed me off for quite a while, but it seems to be getting worse. I go and search for something, and I find one useful page and then the next fifty results are various sites that did a copy-and-paste on the first page and then threw a couple of advertisements next to it. This is not that useful. If I wanted to buy the entire Narnia Chronicles, handing me several thousand copies of page one of The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe would.... not be what I had asked for.

More later.

Comments

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

I've seen some whole subjects that seem to be nothing but spammed in copies of links. It is a good reminder that if you ~want~ to put out distortions and have some money it isn't that hard.

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

there is a google google chrome plug in for that, you mark the sites as bad, and never see them again, and reports to google so they go down in search ranking.


https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'll have to check that out.

Not plagiarism

[merlinofchaos]

Technically no, it's not plagiarism.

Plagiarism is where you take someone else's text, and then attribute it falsely. Either no attribution at all attributing it directly to yourself.

What these people do is copyright violation, which is reproducing without permission. Usually these sites attribute the text, or perhaps there's no attribution at all. Either way, the legality is often questionable and is usually outright illegal, but it's also nearly impossible to actually enforce in any meaningful way.

Re: Not plagiarism

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I suppose setting them on fire with the power of my mind would also be of questionable legality?

Re: Not plagiarism

[merlinofchaos]

There is no question that it would be assault. :)