Say it ain't so! We at Neowin hate to see our favourite news source plagiarised, and when we found out Techtommorrow were doing it, we were horrified. Read the scoop below :)
"IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when I found that Tech Tomorrow is running a spookily similar review of SUSE 9.0 to the one we published back on December the 1st, 2003.
It seems it takes the web thieves at TechTomorrow about a week to copy articles from other sites and file them as their own, as their copy is dated December 08, 2003, and supposedly authored by "George Mitropapas". Imagine my joy when I discovered that I have a twin brother in Greece that writes the same articles that I do, word for word.
But you can't blame them for lack of innovation.... they even offer a zipped download, with the full text and all graphics, something we still don't do over here. This is very skilled forgery, and makes us wonder what the guys at Tech Tomorrow will be able to do with our articles, tomorrow.
In case they remove the offending article, here is a screen capture."
Screenshot: >> Click here
View: INQ Article
View: Techtommorrow "version"
Update
After a really nice email from Fernando Cassia, i learned a little more about the situation. Asides from the blatant copying of the inq's article (above), i decided to a bit of poking @ techtommorrow's website. After entering the first few lines of their top article (AMD Athalon 64) i found the exact same article at AnandTech! Same (rather cheesy) title, same images, same text- unbelievable! Anandtech article can be found here. Is this it? NO! It would appear that Tom's Hardware Guide's article on the Audigy 2 Pro made the techtommorrow.com grade, and they have copied that article (again, word for word, image for image etc) as well! THGs version here: TT version : here. More examples include TT's article on the Abit KV8-MAX mobo, again copied from Anandtech; an article about athalon64 memory support copied from THG; I could go on. All of this information can be found by taking a few lines of their article, and searching for them on Google.
The results are shocking. Although people might simply pass this off as a bit of copying which isn't going to hurt people, they shouldn't. Sites like THG, Anandtech and The Inquirer depend on advertising revenue which techtommorrow is stealing of them. Unfortunately, this is not a victimless crime.
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