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• In Brief: “Report: NASA Employee Stole More Than ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:19 pm

  Tags: Crime, Drunk Criminals All Of Them, Nasa, Theft, Wtf

  “Report: NASA Employee Stole More Than $150,000” — ok, NASA, are you too incompetent to do a newsdump correctly? It’s only Thursday, guys! [Local6]

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• DMCA Game Answer

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates, Winner

  First off, congratulations to Jeremy Steele for successfully guessing which notice was correct! Due to an appeal to the Plagiarism Today Supreme Court, namely my wife, Jeremy has been declared the winner of the contest and I’ve been ordered to pay a heavy fine for being evil. So Jeremy, congratulations. You earned it by figuring out a very

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• Game: Find the Valid DMCA Notice

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Notice And Takedow, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates

  Often times, on this site and elsewhere, we criticize hosts for their poor handling of the DMCA while chiding Webmasters and other laypeople who make mistakes while filing DMCA notices. Though the criticism of hosts is a little more fair since they were one of the parties pushing for the notice and takedown provision, the fact remains that the

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• Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

  For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings. This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the

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• WordPress and Comment Spam

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

  have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some cases, the spammed comment contains scraped content, either from your site or others making it an infringement. Finally, it is an issue that is

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• New Porn Group to Tackle Piracy

  Published: July 20, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Adult Entertainment, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, File Sharing, Gapa, P2p, Piracy, Plagiarism, Porn

  intellectual property theft, lobbying government bodies and educating those in the industry as well as the public at large. This organization could amount to a turning point in the relationship between the adult entertainment industry and file sharing. A Change in Tune On the GAPA site, the organization claims that various forms of piracy

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• Picking a Dead Man's Pocket

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs

  the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again. These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it. As a recent article on Blue Hat SEO pointed out, nothing is ever really deleted from the

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• Why the Cease and Desist Doesn't Work

  Published: July 17, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa, Social Networking

  plagiarism and content theft matters face to face. However, in a recent article on the Blog Herald, I lamented the decreasing effectiveness of cease and desist letters. I’ve expressed similar concerns on this site and the trend only seems to be accelerating. The reason for the near-death of the cease and desist, and along with it the

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• Episode 15 - The Copyright 2.0 Show - MPAA Piracy?

  Published: July 16, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Podcast, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Google, Internet Radio, Mpaa, Netcast, Plagiarism, Podtcast, Prince, Riaa, Viacom

  It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. As Chris and I stammer our way through another week of copyright news including the following stories: Net radio wins a reprieve against rate hikes Google takes a shot at Viacom Prince angers his label with a CD giveaway The MPAA is accused of

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• How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Punditry, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cmi, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Office, Law, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Registration, Riaa, Usco

  The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web. Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover that they have no ability to enforce their rights.

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• Protecting the Comment Feed

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:51 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Articles, Atom, Comments, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Feed, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Wordpress

  now, this kind of content theft is very rare. Since comment feeds are not sent out over pinging services and aren’t, usually, promoted directly in the site itself, most scrapers don’t pick them up. Besides, there is more than enough original blog material to keep the spam machine rolling for now. Currently, the only sites with any

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• Featured Windows Download: Secure your laptop with Laptop Alarm

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Gizmodo, Laptops, Privacy, Security, Theft, Top, Windows

  (The only true method of theft prevention is never leaving your laptop alone.) Laptop Alarm is freeware, Windows only. For more advanced laptop theft fun, check out LaptopLock. Laptop Alarm - Boost your laptop security! [via Daily Cup of Tech]

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• Plagiarism Today Turns Two

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Housekeeping, Personal, Articles, Anniversary, Birthday, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today, Scrapers, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Two

  First, that was discussing theft of their content. Though I was too late to provide any help with stopping the plagiarism, I did provide some post-mortem analysis in an attempt to help. The owner of the blog, Beth, never forgot about what I did. When Maura Welch of the Boston Globe interviewed her about the theft, Beth mentioned my name. A

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• Can Apple help stop iPod theft?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Aapl, Crime, Dateline Nbc, Datelinenbc, Iphone, Ipod, Ipod Theft, Ipodtheft, Nbc Television, Nbctelevision

  "serious problem" with iPod theft and that iPod owners have been seriously injured or even murdered for their iPods. And the company has proposed an ingenious solution to the problem: essentially, you can't recharge the iPod or the new iPhone if you can't prove the device is yours when you hook it up to iTunes. Peter Cohan is President of Peter

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• Take Two Interactive Delays GTA IV

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Take Two, Grand Theft Auto, Sony, Game Consoles, Games, Game Companies, Gta Iv, Release Date Delay, Take Two Interactive

  won’t be seeing Grand Theft Auto IV in time for the holidays, unfortunately. The game was slated to be released on October 16, but according to Take Two Interactive’s recent press release, it’s not coming until their second fiscal quarter of 2008, which loosely means anywhere from January to March of next year. “Take-Two

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