Who owns the internet?

[Dixie]

Sorry but I'm tired to tell you that you should quote the original link. Otherwise this is plagiarism.

[Dixie]

Keep doing it, it will surely be a big help to practise English.

[Krisi]

Sorry but I'm tired to tell you that you should quote the original link.

Dixie I just can't understand you, I'm sorry.

Everytime Mentarget is here to share something you just kept on following up about the original link.

She's the one who found it anyway and share it here with us so couldn't you just thank her for the information.

We should accept the fact that not everyone of us has the time to search everthing in the web so let's just be grateful to those who has the time to share some information here but if you're uncertain you might as well not read it and you can find the link by yourself, rather than going around and following whatever she posts. You are just annoying yourself, you know...

[Dixie]

Dixie I just can't understand you, I'm sorry.

Everytime Mentarget is here to share something you just kept on following up about the original link.

She's the one who found it anyway and share it here with us so couldn't you just thank her for the information.

We should accept the fact that not everyone of us has the time to search everthing in the web so let's just be grateful to those who has the time to share some information here but if you're uncertain you might as well not read it and you can find the link by yourself, rather than going around and following whatever she posts. You are just annoying yourself, you know...

OK Krisi take a minute to just think (as hard as it may be): Imagine you take your time and effort to do a small research and write an essay on it. You upload it to the net. Then I go, copy it and paste it to another site, taking total credit for it. Is it fair to you?

I am annoying? You certainly don't know what annoying means, baby.

Every day I am more sure that we need a rule against plagiarism.

[Hardi]

Online plagiarism
Since it is very easy to steal content from the web by simply copying and pasting, the problem of online plagiarism is growing. This phenomenon, also known as content scraping, is affecting both established sites [3] and blogs [4]. The motivation is often to attract away part or all of the original site's search engine-generated web traffic and to convert these stolen visitors into revenue through the use of online ads.

Free online tools are becoming available to detect and prevent plagiarism [5], and there are a range of approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling right clicking and placing warning banners against plagiarism on web pages. Once identified, instances of plagiarism are commonly addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site.

Do I have to cite sources for every fact I use?

No. You do not have to cite sources for facts that are not the result of unique individual research. Facts that are readily available from numerous sources and generally known to the public are considered "common knowledge," and are not protected by copyright laws. You can use these facts liberally in your paper without citing authors. If you are unsure whether or not a fact is common knowledge, you should probably cite your source just to be safe.

U copy pasted that bold part from wikipedia right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism ... plagiarism

Then, if u are so good of finding that piece of information from wikipedia. Why are you so bad to see the line in bottom of all wikipedia's pages? That says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
Take a look also at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

I don't get why do you copy paste these finds all the time. If it's an interesting find that you want share also with others. Wouldn't it be proper to post also the link to source where u found it, and give also some of your own thought about it. Like why u liked it and so.

Example something like this

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Hello guys today while browsing in wikpedia I found an interesting article about OpenCola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola It's OpenSource Cola. It is Licenced under GNU which means all instructions of making it are freely available and modifiable, So u can change the recipe as long, as you too keep it under the GNU license. I think It's great that GNU spreads also to other subjects than just computer's software. Hopefully such projects help to popularize the thinking of open source way even more and people become less greedy.

But what you have done is just polluting the Internet. With poor extra copies. It even can't call as a copy since the articles have lost all illustrative elements like pictures and links to references and stuff that are mixed into original text. Take it account that searching engines find text everywhere from Internet and now after you have done one of such awful copy. Next person who looking same information, might have more trouble to pick up the right non altered article from all those awful copies.

[Krisi]

Dixie I just can't understand you, I'm sorry.

Everytime Mentarget is here to share something you just kept on following up about the original link.

She's the one who found it anyway and share it here with us so couldn't you just thank her for the information.

We should accept the fact that not everyone of us has the time to search everthing in the web so let's just be grateful to those who has the time to share some information here but if you're uncertain you might as well not read it and you can find the link by yourself, rather than going around and following whatever she posts. You are just annoying yourself, you know...

OK Krisi take a minute to just think (as hard as it may be): Imagine you take your time and effort to do a small research and write an essay on it. You upload it to the net. Then I go, copy it and paste it to another site, taking total credit for it. Is it fair to you?

I am annoying? You certainly don't know what annoying means, baby.

Every day I am more sure that we need a rule against plagiarism.

I just learned now from Mr. Josef that it's tantamount to stealing. How could you prove now that she's not the original author of all those articles she's been posting? Don't you feel bad insulting someone?

I am annoying? You certainly don't know what annoying means, baby.

Of course I know dear. That's a simple word. You should care less sometimes. Don't you feel irritated repeating the same thing everytime you see her post?
Accdg. to Fang Shui it's not good. ...Distance yourself from all irritants... (And this is not to exclude me if you are angry to me as well. All what I know is, I'm just telling you how I feel about the concern you're showing to others.)

[Tora]

hey-ho! Well, actually it is both of us who are annoying as you say, I have been talking about it for a couple of months already!

She's the one who found it anyway and share it here with us so couldn't you just thank her for the information.

as far as I know it's he...

It is not hard to copy a link and paste it in your post, is it?..

No one is insulting here, Krisi. Tell that you're an author and we'll be proud of keeping the forum with such a talented and multi-educated person, what's the problem?

Let it just be fair, articles are intellectual property, so don't you find the constant violating of human rights annoying?

You surprise me

[Krisi]

hey-ho! Well, actually it is both of us who are annoying as you say, I have been talking about it for a couple of months already!

She's the one who found it anyway and share it here with us so couldn't you just thank her for the information.

as far as I know it's he...

It is not hard to copy a link and paste it in your post, is it?..

No one is insulting here, Krisi. Tell that you're an author and we'll be proud of keeping the forum with such a talented and multi-educated person, what's the problem?

Let it just be fair, articles are intellectual property, so don't you find the constant violating of human rights annoying?

You surprise me

Why do you find it surprising Tora?
I don't know who Mentarget is really so I think it's just not proper to say something that would hurt his pride. How would you feel if you're on his place? Would you be pleased and happy to read all of those negative remarks from other members?
Could you please tell me how can I tell that the article is not his own?

This concerns me... Is it a he? I didn't know that. Another mistake!... (men target could mean target of every man, right?)

[Asep]

Sorry but I'm tired to tell you that you should quote the original link. Otherwise this is plagiarism.

Yeah, I totally agree with you, Dixie. Well, I presume that instead of being a copycat, he'd better go find some kittens to play with. Kidding...