I’m mad and I may be overreacting but I don’t care.
Some asswipe who’s name I won’t mention here stole my article almost word for word, including my lame joke, at EzineArticles. Mine is over a year older than his. I remember writing that particular article. I did a few minutes of research and then sat down and wrote it all out from my head, so I know it isn’t an issue of me copying from someone else, and then him copying from me. Or him copying from the same source that I got my information from.
Anyway, I clicked on the “report this article” link on his article page and am looking forward to a reply from EzineArticles. Until then, I’ll try not to be any more immature about it and keep quiet. I just had to rant a bit first.
But just so you know, you can’t steal other people’s content just because it’s on a free article directory. It’s still their content and there are restrictions as to how you can use it. Also, don’t forget that each article directory has their own policies and TOS. Blatantly ripping off someone’s content almost word for word and then submitting it as your own is obviously against any article directory’s policies.
Don’t do it, or you’ll pay for it later. Theft is theft.
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What can I say, I was thinking that I was the only one that discovered his content on other websites. I hate the people that are doing this and I am really mad while I’m spending 7 or more hours trying to write a “unique” article and a guy out there comes and use the “Copy&Paste” feature. Don’t get me wrong here, you can use the content as long as you will inform me and you link back to the original source of my article. That’s a nice thing to do and even I am doing this when I need to give a good reference or a good example. It’s sad that the search engines don’t take actions against this. I mean it would be lovely if the search engines would do more against such people that are stealing others work. It really hurts me since I am not able to concentrate on creating unique and quality articles as I must check the web regurarly to search for other people that loves to copy my articles.
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