Another stolen review

[Andrew]

Again, the scary thing here is it takes me less than 5 minutes to find three reviews stolen from here.

http://wolfen.gametrailers.com/gamepad/index.php?fs=1&action=viewblog&id=326571

[Menard]

A dial-up warning needs to go with that link. Hell, a poorly designed heavy load warning period needs to go with it. I have a cable connection and it took a while for that blog to load.

[AnubisVonMojo]

I love that not only did he steal the reviews, but of course he stole the screen caps too. This of course leads to my favorite part of the whole situation: Andrew changing the caps to display the theft message. Kudos to you Sir on rooting out another blatant shyster. 

[Allhallowsday]

Brother, the world is full of low-life types who have no self-respect and no problem stealing that which isn't nailed down.  Why should they do any "work" when you've done it?   

More ratbastards who want the shortcut credit, an easy way to get their way. 

[CheezeFlixz]

Seems to be gone now.

[Captain Tars Tarkas]

Yep, all blank.

I wonder if anyone would bother to steal my work.  Some webmasters should get together and search for each other's work online, that way they not only get to help their fellow man, they have to read their reviews to do it, and thus read things they might have missed when they first appeared.

[Kester Pelagius]

While I've not caught any sites using large block quotes of my reviews I have noticed that where before I posted a review or two there were virtually NO other reviews of the title out there that, several months later, a few sites had reviews that read like paraphrases of my review.  Now that's not exactly proof but, then again, when you don't read anything substantially NEW in such reviews it does make you wonder.

For instance I just posted a new review of Beast in Space, which is only marginally based on my older review of Beast in Space.  But if you click that second link and take a look at the poster at the top of the page and then go Googling for other reviews odds are you'll see that EXACT SAME image.  Now I didn't scan it, but I did take the "found image" and clean it up a bit and crop it.  Whenever I see it used in reviews I have to laugh.

About the time the DVDs were announced I noticed a lot of sites seemed to rush to cobble together reviews as Google was returning more hits for the movie than ever before.  I think that's roughly when the first "borrowings" started.

[Andrew]

I keep meaning to get that new "Beast in Space" DVD, and largely because of your review.

The link I had posted above was for a blog on the site.  The user was "writing b-movie reviews" and posting them on his blog, and getting quite a bit of feedback from other users about how good the reviews were.  He was claiming to have written the reviews in question, which were 6 of mine and 2 reader reviews.

The other two sites also immediately shut down the copied content after I sent emails/messages.  This batch did not require the official copyright infringement notification letters that I sometimes have to fax or scan and email.