I was reading Dawnkeyotie’s blog and she links to the story of Tequila Mockingbird and how some young punk wannbe blogger has been stealing her material.
Now I’ll admit to being influenced by other sites, like my About This Site page borrows rather heavily from the About page at Ani Moller’s site, but stealing word for word… Just not cool.
Etiquette is the name of the game… If you want to use text, at least give proper credit, or a trackback if possible.
If you want to steal my life, go ahead, I dare you… I Double Dog Dare You™ Mofo! I may not display a copyright notice, but it’s in the source of every page on this site.
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I followed this story to Tequila’s site and It must be so god damn annoying. I’m in the process of building my own site that will include a blog, but meanwhile ive been writting stuff on another journal site. I couldn’t imagine anyone would want to steal what I write, but even so it would still annoy me to frig out of me.
yea, no shit. i would feel used. more than that, really. someone said something on another blog about these blogs being, at least partially, the essence of the writer. i would feel like they were stealing my voice or something. punk ass.