Comments on: Spot the Difference: Plagiarism or Coincidence? You Decide

By: WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » In the spirit of Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:55:28 +0000

[…] eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don’t shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize… Only be sure always to call it please, ‘research’”. — […]

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:45:25 +0000

It’s because they’re assholes who believe there’s a sucker born every minute. This particular jerk was too arrogant — and stupid — to realise he’d get caught eventually.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:06:08 +0000

Why do people think that they can lift anything they like online and put their name on it? Is it a result of the ease of access/ availability?

By: badgerdaddy

badgerdaddy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:11:27 +0000

Nice work, Bock.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:52:00 +0000

Looking at the above samples, it appears to be a process called either spinning or synonymizing. It is a process by which an article is scraped or otherwise copied and a program automatically swaps out certain key words for synonyms using a thesaurus.

Programs such as ArticleBot can do it but other applications have combined that functionality with RSS scrapers to make them even more powerful.

These sites are a copyright infringement as they are creating a derivative work based upon an original and can be shut down using various laws. I haven’t looked too deep into this specific case, but there are almost always solutions to bring these cases to a conclusion.

If you need any help, let me know.

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:00:03 +0000

I don’t think it’s automatic. Remember, this is the guy who manually spammed Mulley’s site.

Anyway, he replaces both “pipes” and “piping” with “rolls”, so I’d say he did it by hand, probably without thinking. Hence “how valuable iron rolls really is”.

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:55:57 +0000

Ace Internet Marketing - content theft with a twist…

This is rather interesting. It is, of course, in relation to bloody Ace Internet Marketing, who I won’t stop droning on about.Anyway, what they seem to be doing is taking articles from elsewhere, and (possibly mechanically) replacing keywords with wor…

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:53:10 +0000

I would guess that the iron rolls are a product of some sort of automatic spam filter or Google duplicate detection avoidance software.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:53:24 +0000

Aidan the total Splogger!

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:32:46 +0000

What?? The fuckin bastards. Deleted immediately and marked as spam.

Where’s Mulley when you need him? Probably out in the pub.