Content stealers in Multiply.com
I never thought it would happen to me. All my blog posts are original and posted on my websites whose hosting I pay for. It is sad and frustrating how other people can just copy and and publish as if the article is theirs. I feel violated that my thoughts have been adopted as their own. My kids’ own experiences have been adopted as her own. Her friends have commented as if she wrote about her own kids and her own life. Now have they not been cheated as well? I requested the owner to delete the post or provide the necessary credits.
This is her profile and the blog post she stole.
** update Feb 23**
- Thankfully she has deleted the said post. However, I will not delete this to serve as a reminder and lesson to her. Contessa - I hope you indeed have learned your lesson.
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By Content stealers in Multiply.com by The Philippines According to Blogs on 02.22.08 11:02 pm | Permalink
This is so outrageous ApplesH!
I wonder what her motives are. Why would she want to copy something you wrote and pass it off as her own experience?
Pathetic!
By MegaMom on 02.23.08 6:40 am | Permalink
MegaMom - I really do not know what are in the minds of the people who copy content. I have seen it happen to other people and its only now that I have experienced it. And I really felt like screaming. Her I’s were my I’s. Her kids were actually my kids. The story was purely mine. I guess she thought since she has kids of her own, she can pass it off as her own article. Grrr.
By ApplesH on 02.23.08 7:05 am | Permalink
that is ridiculous! how could you post something that happened to someone else…
I feel for those who shared their comments on the copied post.. they’ve been deceived big time!
By elizar on 02.24.08 7:06 am | Permalink
elizar - My thoughts exactly. I guess I cannot relate because I cannot imagine myself doing such a thing. Thanks for dropping by my blog. I love your blog by the way.
Cheers!
By ApplesH on 02.24.08 8:09 am | Permalink
Hmmm.. that’s odd! I guess for a short while she wanted to live vicariously through you! (found this post at the ‘women’ section of http://whatsikat.com)
By p on 02.25.08 1:15 am | Permalink
It’s a wonder why some people think they can escape copying on the net. It’s a google away. I can only go “tsk, tsk” reading this post.
By Lynn on 02.25.08 5:37 am | Permalink
That’s weird. First time I hear of this.
By mixednuts on 02.26.08 1:38 am | Permalink
Lynn - My thoughts exactly. There’s google, yahoo, aol search, dogpile etc etc.
By ApplesH on 02.26.08 5:42 am | Permalink
mixednuts - Ive heard a lot of like this before but personally never encountered it… until now.
By ApplesH on 02.26.08 5:43 am | Permalink
p - it is indeed odd and maybe to some extent I may be like that with some people’s lives (especially those who live exciting ones) but I would never pass them off as my own.
By ApplesH on 02.26.08 5:45 am | Permalink
A person who would parade someone else’s life joys and experiences as her own has no pride, no self-respect and no honor in herself. Contessa should absolutely feel ashamed of her plagiarism! After all, how difficult is it to find one’s own words to describe the joys and loves of motherhood? Open up your thesaurus– it’s pretty darned easy!!
Contessa seems to be a young mom. Hopefully, she will learn her lesson and mature into a better woman and better example for her kids. Contessa, if you’re reading this, remember the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!
By Gloria Mc on 02.26.08 12:09 pm | Permalink
shameful! its just show that you had a very interesting post…to the point that she copied it..how you find it out?
By annie on 02.26.08 8:33 pm | Permalink
Gloria Mc - Thanks for the backup.
I too hope she has learned her lesson.
By ApplesH on 02.27.08 7:53 am | Permalink
annie - You are right! Imitation is the best form of flattery (sometimes) but this is not imitation, its plagiarism. I found out because the backlinks on my post of course led to my site and appeared in my site stats.
By ApplesH on 02.27.08 7:54 am | Permalink
..aaahhh ok.. i figure out that last night..i was thinking some people saw it & they informed you ..anyway, its just funny & i really hope she learned her lesson..
By annie on 02.27.08 11:01 am | Permalink
What a shame!
Yup, she removed the link unlike those who copied from bloggers content which appeared in the print media, these articles can’t be removed/deleted/erased anymore. No apologies given?
By julie on 03.02.08 1:57 am | Permalink
teacherjulie - Unfortunately, I did not receive any apologies nor responses to my PMs and messages left at her site. But that’s ok. As long as she has taken my article out of her site, that to me is her apology already.
By ApplesH on 03.02.08 7:17 am | Permalink
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