Plagiarism Is The Best Form Of Flattery – True?

EDIT: He has since taken down the post so you can’t view it anymore as noted by one of the comments. Here’s the Google Cache link.

Nowadays plagiarism and imitation is rampant everywhere, more so on the internet. Many bloggers blatantly plagiarize material from other blogs whether in part or in full and then republish them on their own blog as their own works with no credit given to the original blogger.

I recently found out that one a post of mine concerning the launch of Google Chrome had been plagiarized by some Singaporean called Nick who claims to have retired at the age of 25. The offending post is here and it was published on the 06-09-08 while my post here was published on the 04-09-08.

This was a screenshot of the offending post over at his blog.

A screenshot of the original post written by me on Drett.

Nick didn’t even bother to give me a linkback or mention which I feel is the very least a person can do if he wants to republish half your post completely unedited and call it his own work. After looking around his blog a little and just checking it with Copyscape, I found many of his so-called posts on his blog were just copied and pasted on.

This isn’t the first time a post of mine has been completely taken and republished elsewhere, but there is always a linkback to my site so even though I don’t like it, I don’t take action. This however was the first time that I found a post of mine being plagiarized in this manner. Things like this aren’t flattering, rather, they are more of annoyance for the original blogger. For all those of you who are reading this, please do not forget to provide a linkback or acknowledgement to the original blogger as that way he won’t feel like he has been plagiarized .

What do you think I should do about this? I haven’t contacted to him yet which I most likely will do after my end of years exams requesting that he either take my material down or link back to the original post .

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