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Originally Posted by MAllie  Domain Newbie, as a writer I'm absolutely horrified that you have been typing up articles from magazines to use on your websites. As someone else said already, there are plenty of free articles to use without having to resort to plagiarism. Of course, these won't be of the same high standard required by the print media, and by the time they have gone round the web a few times will no longer by unique content, but you get what you pay for. And don't imagine that just because print and web are two different media you won't ever be found out. 'Glossy' magazines have a lot of prestige and sooner or later you are going to find yourself in legal difficulties over this practice.
Is there any hope that you are joking? If so, bad joke. It's too near the bone nowadays, what with so many pirates around. And there's really no difference between ripping off someone's hardworked articles and stealing domain names. :( |
People don't think reprinting is stealing, particularly on the web, but look at it this way. If I post an interview I wrote with Mr. Star, I might get 1,000 hits from Mr. Star's fans and they might click and buy from my ad links.
Now Mr. Star's fansite takes my story (because they like it and want to share, that's nice.) and posts it in its entirety to their site. Now, they're getting the traffic and clicks that would have been mine, had they posted only a paragraph and a link.
Yeah, it's morally wrong to steal someone else's hard work, but I find many people don't get it until you can turn it into dollars and cents.