MySpace Gal Steals a Blog Post
I’m not usually one to make a fuss. OK, actually I am. And I couldn’t help myself when I came across this MySpace blog post. It’s a blatant cut-and-paste job of a brilliant write up on hangover cures I wrote exactly a year ago. As you can see from the screen shot to the left, it looks even better on one of those default MySpace blog layouts!
I’m not sure why she had to just go ahead and copy the whole damn thing without linking to the actual post. I know I post other people’s material on G&H on a fairly frequent basis, but I don’t ever try to take credit for it. Hell, if I can find any information on the original creator of something, I’ll even link directly to their homepage.
So you can imagine my ire when I see that Ms. Jenniphat is posting something for her friends to think she wrote. I’m flattered that she thinks its funny. I wouldn’t even have a problem if she cut and pasted the whole thing and then linked back to the original post, saying where she got it. But to cut and paste the entire thing without a link back is just lame. Lame, lame, lame…
Not like I should expect anything better from a MySpace blog, but it still gets on my nerves. It goes toward the whole mentality of the MySpace user base: Everything on the internet is “free” and can be used for anything.
If you want to be funny, be original. Come up with your own shit. Don’t be that lame middle aged single woman who spends hours looking for stuff on the internet to make her MySpace friends laugh. Or at the very least post a link to where you got the material, like my lame ass.
how totally fucking lame! the same thing happened to Marvo at Impulsive Buy - someone swiped an entire post of his and posted it on their Myspace blog as their own and didn’t credit him. I commented and told the guy what a fucking loser he was. :D
Dawn: It’s good and bad that I’m not the only one this has happened to. I’m glad I’m not alone, but I’m pissed that it seems to happen all the time.
Yeah, it happened to me too. I get the feeling that people on MySpace can’t write their own shit.
Phoenix: MySpace is like the immature high school of the internet. Except middle aged people that never left high school make up half the user base.
Thank God gun control laws are lax in this country. :)
ajooja: If only they made one that worked over broadband internet…
It’s happened to me too, for something I wrote on how not to get fired for blogging. Meh.
Happy New Year!
Riss: Happy New Year!
I think she deleted it. What a douche!!
I’m not so proprietary when it comes to my stuff. I guess that’s what happens when you write for a living. Someone is always taking credit for something you did. My stuff gets linked a lot and most of the time I get credit, but if I don’t, I don’t get too rankled about it.
Having said that, it’s still bad form.
I did have a bad experience with linking TO someone though. I linked and the person freaked because I didn’t contact them beforehand to see if it was OK. I suppose that probably would have been a nice thing to do, but I didn’t really see where it should have caused a small tumult, especially since she was OK with it eventually.
Ok, so not to make this all about me, but I just read that post of yours from last year where Dramamine is mentioned. And I have to say that I seriously thought that I came up w/ that myself. I’d never heard of it mentioned anywhere before at all, & was once told (3 years ago) to take it to keep me from getting nauseous on this other medication I had to take.
I put 2 & 2 together, & voilà, I came up w/ a cure! I had no idea that this was something that others had thought of before! I thought it was my own original idea (yes, I am that self-deluded)! What a buzz-kill this is for me.
So how did you discover this MySpace post?
April: Wow, I can’t believe she took it down… I wonder how she found out about this post.
Poobah: As usual, you provide a little perspective. I really should just be happy that my stuff is getting read at all. And someone got mad about a link TO their site? Sounds a little paranoid to me.
yllwdaisies: I guess I should have been more accurate. I didn’t come up with those hangover cures myself. Each one links to the respective resource where I found them on the internet. The funny quips are all mine though :). Technically I’m using a BUNCH of other people’s material in that post, so why should I be mad when someone else copies it?
JJ: As usually happens with a cut-and-paste job, the picture in the post was hot-linked back to my domain. It actually showed up as a Technorati backlink just because of the picture.
Funny… That’s exactly how I’ve found theifs in the past - from a picture I included in my original post that they hotlinked. Now I’m curious how many people cut and paste text portions that we never find out about. I’m with Poobah on this one - it’s just bad form.
I’m glad you were able to shame her into taking it down. What a loser.
JJ: Yeah, that’s really the scary thing… the few I find out about are only the ones that are dumb enough to hot-link pictures or videos without a link to the post.
anonymous: Does it mean I’m a pussy that I feel bad I called her a “lame middle aged single woman who spends hours looking for stuff on the internet to make her MySpace friends laugh“?
Mojotek, can I steal your stuff, please??? I can only pay you in bonus points.
=;-)
I think you should take it as a compliment… before you haul her ass into court.
minijonb: You can steal my stuff as much as you want… And after fuming for a day or two, I just chalked it up to a compliment. I mean really? I should have just been flattered, but it sure was fun to bitch about it!
I have to presume she’s old and fugly?
Otherwise, you would’ve just blackmailed her to go to a date with you. Well, at least I would’ve.
On the other hand you should be proud; you’re worth stealing! I only wish somebody stole my crappy blog entries…
rockyjay: Hell, I don’t really know. She had pictures on her MySpace profile, but people always put the pictures they took of themselves up there, which are unavoidably weird and unrecognizable.
And yes, all in all, I’m just proud that someone thought my crap was good enough to pilfer.
People do? Well, I gotta take my pictures down then. I am way too recognizable!
rockyjay: What? THE Rockyjay hasn’t gotten himself a MySpace stalker yet? I’m shocked!
at least now I know from you guys I will link if I steal/lift. although I ask you keep my identity on the d/l as I don’t want just anyone to find my blog.
and to the rest who don’t like me linking, I just wont give credit muhaha
that being said. mojotek why are we not amigos on the worlds worst side in the world.
mulk: I have no idea… why aren’t we friends in the cess pool of the internet?
Someone on myspace tried to steal my ENTIRE IDENTITY.
I made a post much similar to this one awhile back on my blog.
Plagarizer!
Clare: Shit gets deep in cyberspace’s septic tank.