Cam Meets a Plagiarist
Jul. 5th, 2005 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamCam is not amused. Cam is pissed. Cam wants to smack.
There is a foul litle plagiarist on the loose. DarkTyger
It all starts when my dear friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lotus79 discovers DarkTyger's MailDay MailDay Officer Day is a copy&paste of her old You've Got Mail. Only the names have been changed.
To wit:
Sample a)
It was the end of a long day. The case had been a tough one to crack. Everyone was glad it was over. Unfortunately, the bigger the case, the more the paperwork, and Tom wanted three officer's reports yesterday. Kelly, PJ and Amy each sat at their respective desks, typing away. For once, there was no joking, arguing, gossiping or innuendo; the office was uncharacteristically quiet.
Sample b)
It was the end of a long day. The case had been a tough one to crack. Everyone was glad it was over. Unfortunately, the bigger the case, the more the paperwork, and Jeff wanted three detective's reports yesterday. Jack, Mick and Rachel each sat at their respective desks, typing away. For once, there was no joking, arguing, gossiping or innuendo; the office was uncharacteristically quiet.
Obvious, much? It gets much more obvious.
lotus79 snoopes around.
Midnight Raid is stolen from a story with the same name by Brady Udall, a published writer. (How stupid can you get?)
Unresolved Issues is stolen from Hilde's A Little Too Late
Confession stolen from Shattered Mirror Glass (skim about halfway down to see the letter DarkTyger stole)
In the Closet stolen from In the Closet
The Last Precinct: Temptation stolen from an original fic called Skull and Scythe on fictionpress. You can search it.
misscam snoopes around.
Check out the entry by Jess - it's the same e-mail as listed in DarkTyger's profile. Serial offender.
Her journal - save the humans, kill an idiot? Oh, if only...
We also discover she lives in Brisbane, Australia (I used to live there!) and apparently attend Uni. I can only hope for her sake she's not as word-thieving at Uni.
Cam fires up her e-mail.
Hello there, little thief.
Yes, I am calling you a thief, as your little MailDay MailDay Officer Day story is pure copy&paste from Sarah Lotus' You've Got Mail. You just changed the names. And you stole Unresolved Issues from Hilde as well as quite a few other stories. You think no one would notice? Well, they did and word got around. The authors have been informed as well. And authors have friends - real authors, that is, not little word-copiers like you - and friends are protective. I am a protective friend and if I could, I'd tell your parents about your little hobby of stealing, but sadly, I'm left with just your e-mail.
So now, little thief, listen and listen good. Despite the fact that you utterly don't deserve it, you ignoramus ass, I'm going to give you a piece of advice. When it comes to writing, plagiarism is taken very seriously. If you plagiarise at Uni, it can end your academic career. See, you are supposed to write your own stuff and not be a lazy bum with copy&paste, as you seem to be when it comes to fanfiction.
But then again, if you want to truly be mindblowingly stupid like that, who am I to stop you? Have a nice life working at McDonalds, if so. I'll have a large order of fries and milkshake, thanks.
Your bio says you're 18, but I truly hope you're lying there too, as the thought of a legal adult being as idiotic as this depresses the hell out of me. How about trying maturity for a change? I can recommend it.
May leaves of the stinging tree fall on your ass,
Cam
Now Cam hopes little miss thief will rudely reply so Cam can truly fire up her insult-crafter and show no restraint whatsoever.
*shakes head* Truly, stupidity knows no bounds.
There is a foul litle plagiarist on the loose. DarkTyger
It all starts when my dear friend
lotus79 discovers DarkTyger's MailDay MailDay Officer Day is a copy&paste of her old You've Got Mail. Only the names have been changed. To wit:
Sample a)
It was the end of a long day. The case had been a tough one to crack. Everyone was glad it was over. Unfortunately, the bigger the case, the more the paperwork, and Tom wanted three officer's reports yesterday. Kelly, PJ and Amy each sat at their respective desks, typing away. For once, there was no joking, arguing, gossiping or innuendo; the office was uncharacteristically quiet.
Sample b)
It was the end of a long day. The case had been a tough one to crack. Everyone was glad it was over. Unfortunately, the bigger the case, the more the paperwork, and Jeff wanted three detective's reports yesterday. Jack, Mick and Rachel each sat at their respective desks, typing away. For once, there was no joking, arguing, gossiping or innuendo; the office was uncharacteristically quiet.
Obvious, much? It gets much more obvious.
lotus79 snoopes around. Midnight Raid is stolen from a story with the same name by Brady Udall, a published writer. (How stupid can you get?)
Unresolved Issues is stolen from Hilde's A Little Too Late
Confession stolen from Shattered Mirror Glass (skim about halfway down to see the letter DarkTyger stole)
In the Closet stolen from In the Closet
The Last Precinct: Temptation stolen from an original fic called Skull and Scythe on fictionpress. You can search it.
misscam snoopes around. Check out the entry by Jess - it's the same e-mail as listed in DarkTyger's profile. Serial offender.
Her journal - save the humans, kill an idiot? Oh, if only...
We also discover she lives in Brisbane, Australia (I used to live there!) and apparently attend Uni. I can only hope for her sake she's not as word-thieving at Uni.
Cam fires up her e-mail.
Hello there, little thief.
Yes, I am calling you a thief, as your little MailDay MailDay Officer Day story is pure copy&paste from Sarah Lotus' You've Got Mail. You just changed the names. And you stole Unresolved Issues from Hilde as well as quite a few other stories. You think no one would notice? Well, they did and word got around. The authors have been informed as well. And authors have friends - real authors, that is, not little word-copiers like you - and friends are protective. I am a protective friend and if I could, I'd tell your parents about your little hobby of stealing, but sadly, I'm left with just your e-mail.
So now, little thief, listen and listen good. Despite the fact that you utterly don't deserve it, you ignoramus ass, I'm going to give you a piece of advice. When it comes to writing, plagiarism is taken very seriously. If you plagiarise at Uni, it can end your academic career. See, you are supposed to write your own stuff and not be a lazy bum with copy&paste, as you seem to be when it comes to fanfiction.
But then again, if you want to truly be mindblowingly stupid like that, who am I to stop you? Have a nice life working at McDonalds, if so. I'll have a large order of fries and milkshake, thanks.
Your bio says you're 18, but I truly hope you're lying there too, as the thought of a legal adult being as idiotic as this depresses the hell out of me. How about trying maturity for a change? I can recommend it.
May leaves of the stinging tree fall on your ass,
Cam
Now Cam hopes little miss thief will rudely reply so Cam can truly fire up her insult-crafter and show no restraint whatsoever.
*shakes head* Truly, stupidity knows no bounds.
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:49 am (UTC)How on earth would someone think they could get away with that? It's not even audacious, it's just STUPID.
Do you want me to track her down? Deliver anything in person? ;)
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:53 am (UTC)But I think I shall have to satisfy myself with Internet vengeance.
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:55 am (UTC)I've just finished going through and reporting all her fics, and sending emails to the true authors letting them know.
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:02 am (UTC)*offers you another drink on the house*
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:05 am (UTC)And your email makes me shudder. It is obviously dangerous to be at the receiving end of your rage...
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:12 am (UTC)Peanuts?
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:14 am (UTC)I love your smackdown. Remind me to never get on the wrong end of your trout. Then again, if anyone ever stole my fic I would just laugh, because really, turn a CSI fic into a Pokemon or whatever the hell she "writes" and the comedy of the situation would be so amusing I would be too distracted to be angry.
You tracked her down! You guys are too much. I would be my bottom dollar that her term papers are bought online, or just out and out stolen.
People have too mucht time on their hands. Glory me.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:14 am (UTC)That was actually quite restrained compared to what I wanted to say. If the little brat denies it or insults Saz in any way, the gloves come off. I'm thinking of delicious insults already.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:26 am (UTC)If her papers are indeed stolen, I have full confidence in the Uni discovering it, since she's not really showing much of a brain.
And if she replies to me, then we'll see smackdown. Oh yes.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:26 am (UTC)Your letter is the right mix of snark, indignation and protective-friendness (which I thought was very sweet, btw)...Reminded me not to ever cross you ;P
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:28 am (UTC)Plagiarism is bad! We got threatened to be failed and kicked out of the class. This person is just an idiot.
People are stupid sometimes. Yeesh.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:35 am (UTC)At least she's just changing the names and titles of what she copies and pastes. A couple of years ago another 'Net friend of mine had her work plagerized by someone who then "rewrote" certain parts so that the "right" couples got together (her story had yaoi, the plagerizer turned everyone straight) and, I think, so that there was an underlying current of Christianity to everything.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:42 am (UTC)Heh. Never cross me :P And that wasn't the nastiest I can be either. I'm saving that if she turns out to be even twattier and deny it all. I'm almost hoping for it. Do not be a twat to my friends. It does not please Cam.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 08:46 am (UTC)Then I can point and laugh at Teh_stoopid some more.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:47 am (UTC)If she tries that one she'll have serious problems explaining it, since I believe Saz's story was written before the characters she wrote about were even on that show.
*eyerolls to infinity* Now that's even stupider, I agree. Wah, ickle, evil slash, must be it right by stealing and adapting it! Truly, stupidity knows no bounds.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:53 am (UTC)I'll certainly try not to cross you. Your trout looks pretty scary ;P
I'm hoping she'll reply as well. Love it when things get hairy. Usually is bloody funny.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:55 am (UTC)I'm glad I friended you now. *Sits back with popcorn to watch the upcoming battle*
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Date: 2005-07-05 09:05 am (UTC)Over there, kind of in the sky, Dark Dark Out?
Space Space, it is the place!
North of the stars, South of the HELP I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE ON MY OWN OMG!
Mail Day, Mail Day, Crime Scene Officer Day
I hope she replies! (Wankwankwank!) I hope she send you a goth-y reply. My soul cries with the blood of the fairy queen at your accusation...
;)
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Date: 2005-07-05 09:05 am (UTC)