Taiwan: The blog pirates · Global Voices
(Photo courtesy of Mrs. <PERSON>. The words on the photo are: All right preserved. No co-authors. Toy turtle claims: I only go out with Mrs. <PERSON>.)
When more and more people share their thoughts, knowledge, and experience on their blogs, more and more blog pirates appear. These pirates not only take the original photos (some even with the authors’ mark on them) or copy paste the original articles to their blogs but also submit some pieces for other publications or even blog awards. Here are some victims:
2007/3/18, cottom_vitas:
今天開網誌發現，有好心人告知我的文章被盜用了，連我的圖都被偷了，看了真是傻眼 …整篇文章連改都沒有改…只有把我的名字改成她的名字，而且還可以回應別人問她的問題…她不只偷我的文，很多人的文章也都被偷了，我不懂用別人的文章當成自己的生活經驗，不是很沒有意義嗎?
This morning, a nice person left a message on my blog and told me that my article was pirated, together with my photos. 368
I was shocked…That pirate did not change a word…She only changed my name to her name, and responded to the questions and comments on that article…She not only pirated my article but also others’. I do not understand. What's the point of taking other people's articles as their own life experience?
2007/3/19,cindyfeng:
看到內容，不知是要哭還是要笑，連我和Larry的對話也改成她和朋友的msn的對話了…我那篇文章是1/18登上的，她1/19就掛在自己的網站裡，手腳還真是快。
When I read the content, I do not know if I should cry or laugh at it. The conversation between <PERSON> and I became the msn conversation between her friend and she…My article was posted on 1/18, and she posted it on her blog on 1/9. She is really fast.
2007/6/15,Mr.&Ms. Days:
我們真的很不喜歡做這種糾察隊的事情。我們都已經這麼慷慨了，讓大家可以全文轉載了，而您所需要做的事情就是加記出處以及連結，我相信這種隨手的事情對大家不會是一種負擔吧。
We indeed do not like to do the monitoring stuff. We are already so generous and allow everyone re-publish the whole article from our website with attribution and link. I believe this action (referring the author) is a piece of cake and should not be a burden to anyone. 368