Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others 50
Techdirt has an amusing story about the expanding adoption of the RIAA-style business model of collecting settlement money from threats of litigation based on copyright infringement claims. This story comes with an amusing twist with the two cited companies, Davenport Lyons and ACS, being clearly related and ACS publishing an article with clearly plagiarized selections. Anything to make a buck I guess. "TorrentFreak noticed that an article apparently published by ACS Law was actually plagiarized from a variety of different sources, basically cut and pasted together with no credit or citations given at all. Remarkably, in some cases, articles with the exact opposite view of ACS Law were copied with paragraphs that just had an added sentence to the end which completely contradicted what the original article said."
Re:Heh - even the Brits are not immune! (Score:1, Informative)
That'd be "the lady doth protest too much".
Re: Quick Memo to the Team (Score:1, Informative)
ctrl-v, not ctrl-p
Re:Quick Memo to the Team (Score:4, Informative)
No...he's copying it to the clipboard, then printing out a hard copy.
This guy's violating copyright TWICE in TWO KEYSTROKES!11!1!!!
Ooooh...hardcore!