in reply to Can your site handle this?

Maybe you could clarify something for me:

Did you write this poetry?

http://www.perlnights.com/?action=show_thread&sectionid=4&threadid=143

Or did you plagiarize it from PhillipHuang's posting, Late Spring on PerlMonks? I guess the question really is who is the original author? You, who posted it on November 4th 2011, or Phillip, who posted it on August 3rd, 2011?

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Re^2: Can your site handle this?
by anneli (Pilgrim) on Nov 06, 2011 at 05:45 UTC
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      ... including my obfu: Nervous sub. (Unattributed plagiarized copy posted here by Logicus.)

      What did I do to deserve having something that took me a couple of hours to write stolen and posted on someone else's site without so much as an attribution? Even something such as, "This was invented by davido over on PerlMonks." would have been courteous.

      Instead, it's made to look as though someone else wrote it and posted it there.

      It reminds me of Lee Marvin's line from the movie "Emperor of the North". "Kid, ya got no class!"


      Dave

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        A creator does not surrender the rights to their work by posting it online. A piece is protected by copyright the moment it is created.

        Also, while the maintainer of a website may decide they don't care about the ownership rights of individuals, the domain registry and web host may have concerns.


        UPDATE
        Weekday, 6.Nov.2011 :: 08:54 AM :: Added link to information on website infringement.


        "...the adversities born of well-placed thoughts should be considered mercies rather than misfortunes." — Don Quixote
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      Yup, and that's just the start! I'm going to rip content off from near and far! All your internetz are belong to me!
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        You people brought this down on yourselves, I have no pity for you and not a shred of compunction about using anything you produce for my own benefit and profit. Perhaps if the more trollish members of this forum hadn't gone to town trying to make me out to be an out of control psycho, maybe if some of the others had stood up for me against them, possibly if just one person had really taken a look at what I was bringing, then I wouldn't feel such MALICE towards this place and the majority of it's inhabitants. Too bad... and too late.
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Re^2: Can your site handle this?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2011 at 07:01 UTC

    It had to be Logicus. His site says, "Logicus has written this wonderful bit of Perl Poetry"

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Re^2: Can your site handle this?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2011 at 16:30 UTC
    Almost verbatim plagerism I'm afraid... Your going to see a lot more of the content on perlmonks, (and other sites) turn up on perlnights as well, at least until it has it's own traffic generating content without being helped along.
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