An announcement
The Bharateeya Blog Mela, due to be held today, has been post-poned due to a technical error.
All efforts are underway to set the fault right. Please bear with us (me and my multiple identities (hat tip to Kingsley)).
Meanwhile, join us in heaping curses and illwill upon this person and his lifting posts from blogs and claiming it as his own. Let us all lend our solidarity to Shanti as she battles this creepy blot on the blogosphere.
P.S. Amit, the latest firebrand on the blog-radar writes about this shit too.
Update: 22 Jan, ‘05: Chenthil sent me a mail with further evidence of plagiarism.
Reading through the plagiarised posts, I see that he even copied typing errors. I don’t believe this. So un-original, he even posts copied entries with typos. Reminds me of the tamil saying “Ee adichan copy”.
Here are the plagiarised posts – look closely for the typos.
- http://www.rohanpinto.com/2003/10/query-against-uddi.html
- http://blogs.mit.edu/chsakda/posts/389.aspx – The original
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January 22nd, 2005 at 2:57 am
Stealing content for your web site – The Rohan Pinto way
I know we all have writer’s block from time to time. It’s not easy to keep writing on your blog regularly. Some people wait a while, take a break, and come back when they have something worth writing about. But…
January 22nd, 2005 at 5:28 am
Plagiarism
Amit Varma, Shanti Mangla, Madhu Menon and Ravages have their knickers in a twist about Rohan Pinto. The Last has plagiarised content (comments and all) from lots of blogs with blatant impunity, but does not seem want to repent. I am sympathetic but a …
January 22nd, 2005 at 9:29 am
Adamant on copying
Chandru emailed me about this guy called Rohan Pinto who has his own domain and has been plagiarizing the blog posts, verbatim, without perhaps ever worrying about it. Now I can understand his urge to be a noted blogger when blogging on pretty grave
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:29 pm
I run a couple of sites, one of which is a 100 word review blog called Milliblog (http://www.itwofs.com/milliblog). The blog is reasonably popular. Recently, my 100 words on Emdan Magan, a new Tamil film soundtrack, with music by Vidyasagar went up on August 16th. I do have postings on a couple of other forums to back up the posting date in case my date is questioned. Rediff’s review was posted by S Sudha on August 21st. (http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/21emdan.htm)
Do I see a Kaavya-styled internalized lift here? Sample these!
Mine: “As a soundtrack, Emdan Magan disappoints…”
Rediff: “Vidyasagar’s score for Emden Magan is not great; in fact, it is disappointing…”
Mine: “Varaaru is marginally catchy, which will need significant help from its picturization to impress better”
Rediff: “Vaararu Varaaru is marginally catchy, but will need significant help from its accompanying visuals to impress.”
Mine: “Kalloori is a routine youngster’s track in the usual Vidyasagar mode.”
Rediff: “Kalloori is a routine youth track in the usual Vidyasagar style.”
Mine: “The composer returns to his Thambi-styled melodies in Koligundu kannu and Mannmeedhu – both are beautifully tuned and very well sung.”
Rediff: “He comes up with his Thambi-style melodies in Koligundu Kannu and Mannmeedhu, both of which are tastefully tuned and very well sung.”
How’s this for plagiarism? And to think I actually run a very popular website on plagiarism (albeit on Indian music! – http://www.itwofs.com)