Blog Copyists do not prosper

I while ago I read a blog complaining that a blog copied other people's blog entries and not changed some of the words and written practically the same thing but this blog had literally copied complete blog entries. The discussion was on a Joel on Software forum

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.354719.75

I was a bit shocked because I saw my blog was mentioned and was saying that a blog entry on my blog was a copy

http://elsinga.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/a-tip-on-writing-software-documentation/

compared to:

http://www.jroller.com/page/hoskinator?entry=a_tip_on_writing_software

when I read it initially I was shocked, so shocked that I didn't read it properly and thought someone was accussing me of copying. I was writing a comment then I read it again, properly and found out that they were saying that the blog http://elsinga.wordpress.com was copying mine. Not only mine but many many many others.

After looking at the site in more detail I found the site had copied loads of my blog entries, just pasted them in whole and didn't even reference my site.

I'm glad to say that the site has now been taken down.

The weirdest thing about the incident is that why would someone bother to just paste other blog entries in, what did they get out of it


Anyway when you go to the page

http://elsinga.wordpress.com/

you now get this satisfying message instead of copies of other people's blogs

"This user has elected to delete their account and the content is no longer available."