[RapidBlue]

There were some cases on the FanFictionNet years ago, a very successful writer was plundering the Facebook account's for their note scribbles and then posting it as her own. The another writer had no idea what was going on and when she decided to publish her scribbles on the FanFiction the notable writer in question attacked her for the plagiarism.
As I was a fan of that successful writer, I got curious.
I went to the source of a trouble who was not my Facebook friend at the time and after a few persuasive messages she explained to me that she only wrote these things on the Facebook note program and only showing them to a few people, including that successful writer.
At that time the Facebook security was crappy and week, so I suggested her to delete Facebook completely, use Twitter and make another account on another writing webpage with another pen name to avoid the annoying pest who steals from her.
After only a few months I learned to know that a successful writer just rewrites her own old stories into a new instances of the fan fiction or literary steals ideas or the whole scenes from other people.
When thing out breaches she makes drama out of it claiming rights on 'her' work.
But, to make her business more giving and possibly lucrative ( FF writers tend to find the clients if tehir stories are successful easy), she accumulated a whole army of the double accounts, paid fans and confused Facebook friends who keeps her work afloat.

[suny]

That is a common problem on internet, I have found some of my posts published without change of a single word and the funnier part is the sites claim that they have very strict rules against plagiarism.

[RapidBlue]

That is a common problem on internet, I have found some of my posts published without change of a single word and the funnier part is the sites claim that they have very strict rules against plagiarism.

If would be nice to know the name of a website, please PM with url, thank you.

[DreekLass]

I don't know if this qualifies, but I once had a poster on PL copycatting my posts on other forums. I was creating new threads, and this person was copying them. When I went to report them to Ryan, I learned that the poster was not even with PL, which made it even stranger.

That is weird. Why would someone steal with no purpose? Hmmm, maybe they were with some other paid posting service?

Maybe they just really liked your posts.

I don't know - for whatever reason I think that Ryan may have been lying, as a poster who has nothing to do with PL would not have known the PL forums, to be copycatting my posts on other PL forums, you know?

[RapidBlue]

It is easier to copy/paste than to write it yourself, but if you curate other people content that is not considered the stealing, quite opposite, you actually appreciate the writer's work using is as a source. Plus, you don't need to put an additional effort to write the whole chunk again by yourself.
Curated means something like 'quoted'.

Anyone can steal, from any reason but money is the main one.

[Angie10]

I don't know if this qualifies, but I once had a poster on PL copycatting my posts on other forums. I was creating new threads, and this person was copying them. When I went to report them to Ryan, I learned that the poster was not even with PL, which made it even stranger.

Now that you mention it, I once saw someone blatantly copying someone else's comments over and over again on ChatAbout! It went on for a while until the 'victim' and a few other people put the perpetrator on the spot. I think someone also reported him/her to admin, at which point it stopped! I mean, the mind boggles!!!

[Allius]

Unfortunately this is a big problem in the internet. Protect our contents that's not easy and there are so many people trying to fool us The last thing I heard was about Instagram... some people copy others photos and try to sell them online or printed copies... I think that this is a problem with no solution...

[suny]

Unfortunately this is a big problem in the internet. Protect our contents that's not easy and there are so many people trying to fool us The last thing I heard was about Instagram... some people copy others photos and try to sell them online or printed copies... I think that this is a problem with no solution...

Is that so, but in my views no hones site will allow that besides there are too many ways a stolen content will be detected without doing much efforts.

[DreekLass]

I don't know if this qualifies, but I once had a poster on PL copycatting my posts on other forums. I was creating new threads, and this person was copying them. When I went to report them to Ryan, I learned that the poster was not even with PL, which made it even stranger.

Now that you mention it, I once saw someone blatantly copying someone else's comments over and over again on ChatAbout! It went on for a while until the 'victim' and a few other people put the perpetrator on the spot. I think someone also reported him/her to admin, at which point it stopped! I mean, the mind boggles!!!

I understand why people would do it, but it is silly because clearly you are going to get caught. It is like when people steal videos from popular youtubers and create their own channel to upload those videos. You are OBVIOUSLY gonna get caught and you will earn zero money. It is a waste of time.