What to Do with Plagiarism?

When I was doing my Around PFBlogosphere Tuesday evening, I noticed a post on pfblogs.org with the title “Get Your $250 Bonus from Chase Freedom!” The post got my attention because I posted entry early in the day on the $200 bonus I received from Chase Freedom card. Could the deal come back again? Out of curiosity, I clicked the link and went to a website called Credit Card Blog (www.0-apr-creditcards.com) and what I saw really bothered me.

The following is a screenshot of the post I captured two days ago. It was almost entirely copied from my post and the image in the post was a hot link to my picture, yet there was no mention of the original post at all.

I have no problem for others using my material, texts or images, as long as a link to the original post is provided. In fact, I myself use published contents once in a while quite often when the topics really interest me (for example, those under Article category), but I always link to the original article and quote the part I use. The above post, however, doesn’t look right to me because one can’t simply copy and past other’s work and claim it’s his own. So I left a comment asking to link to my post otherwise remove the post. No response after two days.

Since I don’t like the author just use my image without even mentioning the source, I renamed the picture in my post yesterday morning, but not for long, the Credit Card Blog renewed the link in his post as well and pointed to the new image. So the author was aware of my complain, but refused to acknowledge it and make the change! That I don’t understand why. What does he get to lose?

Actually, the URL of the website looks familiar so I searched my email folder and found a message from the same author a couple of months ago asking for link exchange. Is it possible that since I didn’t reply the email (and didn’t agree for the link exchange of course) the author was mad about me so he decided to ignore my request this time ?

Hi,
My name is Adam xxxxxxxx and I am the webmaster for www.0-apr-creditcards.com/blog. Which is called Credit Card Blog and I was reading over some of your posts and really enjoyed what I read. I was wondering if you would like to add me to your blogroll and I will do the same back to you. I feel like our readers could benefit from each others posts. Please let me know what you think.

Have a Good Day
Adam

Well, Adam, if that’s the way you enjoyed my posts, you can stop it now!

BTW, when I went to Credit Card Blog again last night to see if the post was removed, I found it was still there yet with a new image! Since the picture was quite disturbing, I don’t want to show it here, but I did take another screenshot of the post (the picture is still there, so no link to my screenshot now).

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