Thursday, October 22, 2009

Not-so-smart Alec and the art of artless copying.

I won't waste words.

This blog has several posts copied shamelessly from Son of Bosey.

Here are a a few examples :

http://bit.ly/2FaCh8


http://bit.ly/3EgmyE

http://bit.ly/2SZvMh

I remember seeing this about a year ago, and asking them to credit me. But no action, and I forgot. Chanced on it again today, and thought I'd let you guys know.

Thanks for supporting Son of Bosey.

UPDATE : Found two more posts copied from Son of Bosey.

http://bit.ly/1d6pLJ



http://bit.ly/EHGsM

And it's priceless how the dude has absolutely shamelessly accepted compliments for his writing in the comments sections. Do not miss - much hilarity.


UPDATE : The dude has removed all the offending posts. Thanks folks, for supporting Son of Bosey. I owe all of you a beer.

23 comments:

Freya said...

Loser. Write a satirical post on plagiarism!

No Mist said...

i vaguely remember that some body tried to plagiarize rashmi bansal's blog too (i may be mistaken here, it maybe somebody else's blog) ... and i also vaguely remember that it was somebody called smart alec.

guess that there is a underworld of rodents thriving in the blog world too.

Balanarayan NT said...

Sheesh that's really bad! I know one guy who used to post stuff from my gaming blog. When he didn't respond to my mails, I saw to it that he didn't get any money he made through ad sense =D


PS: If someone plagiarises you, never link to them. always take screen shot for evidence. They don't deserve link love.

Anonymous said...

Just pathetic! And it saddens to know that there're now links going over to his blog from yours. Sigh! I hope you can sue his arse good!

coolmonk said...

The about section on that blog:

...
I like people who are worth a few goose bumps with wants and desires of adrenaline rushes, people who can disturb me to the numb core of my brain and leave me profusely sweating
...

bwah! Wonder what s/he was smoking when that was written.

Anand Ramachandran's Evil Twin said...

Oh I have no interest in suing at the moment. I just hope the guy will respond to this and either credit or remove the material. In any case, I want to make sure that tomorrow, nobody looks at his blog and then accuses ME of lifting HIS stuff. You never know :)

About the links - it's just so that readers of this blog can head over there and tell him what they think. I don't care if it leads to traffic for him - what do I lose?

Talking Skull said...

This sucks. People don't realise that copying is an art. They guy should have copied your posts on to Google translator and translated it from English to French, then French to German, then German to Spanish and ... ..and finally back to English. Then, nobody would have been able to catch him!!

PS: I will be posting a modified version of above comments on this guy's site. Is that plagiarism?

Talking Skull said...

Anand, these are the the downsides of being rich and famous. But, I am your well-wisher and have a brilliant idea....

Only me and my immediate wife visits my blogsite (you see, it is too secret to be made popular!!). You may start posting your blogs on my site. Thus, SmartAlec and ilks will not be able to find out what you have penned. That will also ensure that I stay protected against plagiarising your stuffs... :-P

Anand Ramachandran's Evil Twin said...

@talkingskull Rich and Famous? Me? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaa. That is the funniest thing ever written on Son of Bosey.

P.S. - Which one are you? Murray or Morte?

Talking Skull said...

OK. I concede defeat. You are not famous. Only rich.... ;-P

A dumb ques: Who are Murray and Morte? I went to the Google God, and it is throwing too many options!! Need your help in identifying who I am.

PS:In all this commotion, I forgot to mention that it's been long time we saw a new post from you.... :-/

Pagal Patrakar said...

This guy is a big big loser. After reading this post, I checked that shameless copycat's blog, and guess what I was shocked to find that the thief has plagiarized my work too!

This is my original post - http://www.fakingnews.com/2009/09/tharoor-clarifies-cattle-class-remark-blames-jackasses-for-confusion/

and this is from the copycat - http://swapnil.ej.am/blog/2009/09/18/tharoor-clarifies-cattle-class-remark-blames-jackasses-for-confusion/

Anarchy said...

All the plagiarised articles have been removed mostly. I even went to the date in question here, and nope... none of bosey's or faking news' posts are there...

That's what you guys wanted right?

PS: I second talking skull, the frequency of your posts here has reduced drastically Anand.

Chethana said...

Che Che.
Those links are not to be found any longer. Whatey waste of hilariousness oppurtunity and Son of Bosey space.

techrsr said...

Imitation is the sincerest form of theft.

I hope this idiot learnt his lesson.

Deepak Misra said...

I had a look before links were removed. All articles seem to have been lifted from elsewhere - one from Jug Suriya.

Google will still be caching the article for sure and it should be visible to anyone

Deepak Misra said...

Strange - i checked once again and random sampling showed that every so called article was lifted from somewhere. a simple googling shows that

Narendra shenoy said...

If there is any justice in this world, the guy should land up before you as an interviewee.

Alls well that ends swell, as I always say. Cheers. I drank 3 beers to that and observed T&T getting clobbered, damn.

Anonymous said...

Hey Anand, did my bit of posting hate comments on Smart-ass Alec's blog. But I feel that there is no way of humiliating someone with that kind of psyche!

Gowri Shankar said...

Hey guys,
There is a photo of that rascal if you scroll the website all the way to the bottom!! And this is what he has to say about himself:"I find there is a lot in common between me and R.K. Laxman's common man - A sight embedded in daily morning newspaper. I find that I am close enough to notice what is going on in the system but just far enough to have a third person's perspective".
I am going to save a photo of him before the shameless guy removes that too! Anand..let me know if you need it..he can be your next post(with photo)!!

Arjun Sharma said...

I will take that beer.

Maybe he was trying to start a filter blog, like 3QuarksDaily, but instead ended up copying your posts.

Imagine if he were trying to start a serious news site and put all your posts up there. Wish he'd done that.

Mr. D said...

This is what he says in 'About' - "...Hailing the authority of imagination in my visions almighty, for what I hold inside me and the way I am molded into...".

Hilarious cock from a copycat.

RR said...

Anand.. plagiarism is the best form of flattery they say..
Maybe smart alec was not smart enough and carried things a bit too far..
Anyways,nice to call someone's bluff :)

Anonymous said...

I suspect he's getting a lot of hits now because of your post and link. You really should unlink/delete this post if you don't want to do him any favours :)