Thursday, April 15, 2010

"Ignore the Laws Regarding Appropriation"

Otherwise known as "plagiarize the shit out of stuff".

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Bullshit. If you take somebody's work for your own without citing or crediting them, that's theft.

In a venue without any real cops (this one), most bloggers are actually pretty ethical about crediting each other when they post something that another person wrote. Hell, even when they see a story on another blog, even if their snark is their own, bloggers will credit the blog where they saw the story.

As far as I'm concerned, if David Shields shows up for a book-signing, he should be pelted with rotting vegetables.[1]

Because the law would frown on pelting him with stones, bricks or Molotov cocktails.

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