# I'VE BEEN PLAGIARISED!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950 "2000-09-21T03:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/1 "2000-09-21T03:10:25Z")
By [this](http://axon.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/) rat bastard. You see that [tutorial on Apache](http://axon.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/Apache/Apache-tutorial.html)? I wrote that. He took my name and email off it, and didn’t change a word! [Here](http://kidma.com/ApacheTutorial/) is an example of someone who ASKED MY PERMISSION to copy it. Notice anything different? Yeah, MY FUCKING NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS IS STILL ON IT. There’s a bunch of other sites that have carried the article as well, always free, because I’m a nice guy, but always with permission, and always with credit. (Ironically, my own website is down at the moment.) Man, this really chafes my ass! All he had to do was ask! (I specifically mention in my FAQ that I almost always grant permission to copy my stuff provided you ASK ME AND GIVE ME FUCKING CREDIT!) Arrghh. I wrote a letter to him explaining how this is severe plagiarism and demanding he remove it, but I’m not sending it until I hear back from my dad, who is a bigshot lawyer. What a fucking dick! Motherfucker!!! Ahghgh! ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/2 "2000-09-21T03:39:58Z")
I’m fucking pissed for you. That’s bullshit. I like how he didn’t even substitute his own information in at the end, he just chopped your off and left it. Skinbag. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/3 "2000-09-21T03:41:05Z")
I had a porn site once copy my page on how to use Netscape with AOL (back with AOL 3.0) with no credit… they never answered any of my email, either. Pissed me off. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/4 "2000-09-21T03:48:40Z")
Tell him to send you a personal check, or money order, for $100 bucks. Have him know that if he doesn’t comply: you will take _immediate legal action._ ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/5 "2000-09-21T03:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silo \* > \*\*Tell him to send you a personal check, or money order, for $100 bucks. Have him know that if he doesn’t comply: you will take _immediate legal action._ > \*\* I don’t want money. In my letter (which I haven’t sent yet) I mention that I will take legal action (and contact his university and try to get him terminated) if he doesn’t remove it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Sequent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Sequent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sequent)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/6 "2000-09-21T04:57:58Z")
That bastard! How did you find out about his site? Sucks, but it’ll probably be hard to take action against a site and student in Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/7 "2000-09-21T05:17:35Z")
I dunno, Sequent, universities rarely let a thing like “plagiarism”, even if it’s not in an official school assignment, go unpunished. To the “publishing world”, plagiarism is as horrendous a crime as rape and eating McDonald’s food. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/8 "2000-09-21T05:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sequent \* > \*\*That bastard! How did you find out about his site? Sucks, but it’ll probably be hard to take action against a site and student in Vietnam. \*\* I found it by accident. I wanted to look up something in that very document, and since my own site was down, I did a google search for one of the several sites that had carried it in the past. And I found his. The fucker. And SPOOFE is right. If the academics had their way, plagiarism would be a capital offense. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/9 "2000-09-21T07:29:23Z")
And the freaking idiot even left several references to “friedo” in the text! I say you notify his university NOW, and tell them about this. While I can’t comment on how accurate the instructions are, they seem to be in a unique style, and there’s no chance in hell that he’d write EXACTLY the same article as you did, and put YOUR name in the examples. Tell the university that it’s plagiarism, he hasn’t responded to your communications, and that they need to double check his other credentials and writings. If he’s ripped YOU off, no telling how many other people he’s ripped off. Cripes, this sort of thing really gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![ponch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@ponch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponch)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/10 "2000-09-21T12:56:34Z")
WOW! I’m officially speechless. ---
**Author:** ![barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/11 "2000-09-21T13:12:45Z")
No excuse for this **friedo** He even copied your mispellings (or typos). Look at the first paragraph under - Configuring Part 2 . See the word _privelages._ The guy doesn’t even proof the stuff he steals. Great Tutorial by the way. I could see why people would like to copy it. ---
**Author:** ![barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/12 "2000-09-21T13:23:24Z")
I’d send the info to this guy. He is or was the idiots faculty advisor: Prof. Yoshiyasu Takefuji Email: takefuji@sfc.keio.ac.jp or yxt3@po.cwru.edu Keio University, Faculty of Environmentral Information 5322 Endo, Fujisawa 2520816 JAPAN Phone:+81-466-47-5111 Fax: +81-466-47-5041 Maybe he could explain it to him. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/13 "2000-09-21T13:34:57Z")
Wow - this really sucks. Keep us posted - nail the fucker! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/14 "2000-09-21T15:20:06Z")
His resume gives his current employer. Get him fired. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/15 "2000-09-21T16:16:27Z")
Thanks **lissener** and **barker** , I’m going to contact all these people, as soon as I hear back from my dad, and I’ll post regular updates. And thanks for the comments, **barker** I’m aware of the typos, they were fixed months ago, which means he copied it a looong time ago. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/16 "2000-09-21T19:50:23Z")
Holy FUCKING shit, dude! I don’t know whether to laugh at the level of stupidity this took (love the "I would appreciate any questions, comments, critiques, grammatical corrections, typo notices, or death threats at " bit) or offer to help you catch this sniveling vomitous mass of burned shit. BTW, great tutorial. As someone who’s semi tech-literate . . . but not enough to do this on my own . . . good job. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/17 "2000-09-21T20:23:07Z")
Don’t forget to get a screen shot, in case he changes it. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/18 "2000-09-21T21:21:22Z")
What recourse does one have on the net when someone steals your HTML or custom designed images? I’ve seen a lot of theft off of my largest website, with people even using MY images on pirated/bootleg videos. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/19 "2000-09-21T21:37:54Z")
Hey, would anybody have a problem if, rather than letting these people steal your web-based material like this, I just created a program whereby online users could, um, “share” copyrighted HTML and other Web material with each other? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950/20 "2000-09-21T21:48:57Z")
Uh, in the words of Foghorn Leghorn, “That was a **joke** , son.” :::: (muttering) preview function, Phil, ya moron :::: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-plagiarised/33950.md?page=2)