I was blogging for two months I think when I spotted my first case of plagiarism. Someone else had copied one of my posts and pasted it onto his own website, without any link or reference to me.
Man, I was furious and I immediately contacted him and asked him to take the post down. He did in the end, after a bunch of angry emails and tweets from me, but it cost me a lot of time and energy. How naive I was … It wouldn’t be my last experience with content theft and I’ve learned to be a little less upset about it.
Content theft is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on the Internet. The percentage of plagiarized content on the Internet has risen from 25% in 2009 to 44% in 2011. That means that almost half of the web’s content is copy-pasted from somewhere else.
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