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gojomo on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plagiarism

Zee/TheNextWeb has a history of copying others' work without permission, including for one period HN comments. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640492

Note that what I was concerned about was not respectful excerpting: for a time, they were scraping every HN comment related to their links back to their site, without permission/notification to authors, without threading, with NOFOLLOW.

joering2 on May 14, 2012 | [–]

Would be great to have a kickstarter for suing dirtbags, like in this example. Classactionstarter or something...

officemonkey on May 15, 2012 | | [–]

douchestarter.

trefn on May 15, 2012 | | | [–]

douchestopper?

jacobolus on May 14, 2012 | | [–]

Why can’t PG or some hacker news admin simply block any stories from thenextweb?

javajosh on May 14, 2012 | [–]

Thanks for linking to this. Looks like there's a pattern here. Too bad for Zee.

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