It’s seems that the thing to DO these days is crusade against Digital Media Theft. And we all know how I like being at the forefront of fashion, analog OR digital. Because of Fish, and Julia, and Sourbob and the girls at SpinStartsHere, the talk of digital content theft has been very much on everyone’s mind.
Last night, a friend tried to point out that stealing content from the someone’s website was just like downloading music illegally. While I personally don’t download music simply because of aural laziness and because Apple tells me not to and I listen to everything Apple tells me, I still think stealing someone’s writing and passing it off as your own is worse than simply downloading a song illegally. It would be like downloading the song, learning to play it, and then passing that off as your own.
To qualify how I feel about stealing website content, I’ll say: Stealing People’s Writing is the New Horrible Satin Capri Pants. Or the new Stupid Fucking Crooked Trucker Hats. It’s the New Bad, is what it is.
So in the spirit of vigilante justice, I went hunting for people who’d dared mess with a girl wielding a Pink Baseball Bat of Style and Doom. Using Copyscape, Google’s new toy, I managed to find exactly one site that replicated my content word for word without crediting ph.com:
Myself. Ah, how meta.
I’m very glad to not have been stolen from. Because my PPBoSaD is currently being refurbished for the big Wedding Bash and I really don’t want to get any messy carnage stains on it.