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Review by Bounty
Rated: E | (4.0)
I will be honest, this kind of writing has bugged me for a while.

It is not because of a wierd support of plagiarism...

more it is a confusion of concepts I find annoying...


This story is well written, so I will say that gives it a good rating from me, but I really hate this over-suspicious feeling that we are apparently being asked to take by the author. Spotting plagiarism is good to know, but there are off-chances when the person is a very good writer, which should also be taken into consideration.

What buggs me the most is the ideas and inapropriate implementation of the term stealing in place of copying. Such as:

"They really were not concerned at all that each time they forwarded something they received attributed to "anonymous" they were stealing someone’s writing or graphics. How sad."


The term of stealing has a very well defined meaning, which apparently has been misplaced somewhere along the moden day. I was taught that the meaning included taking something away from somebody else, and if something did not meet that definition, it was another ccrime.


In the case of copying graphics, it is just copying. It might be considered wring in certain instances, but in others, like showing a friend, it can be considered to some extent harmless.

As for passing a work off as your own being stelaing.... I really thought there was already a term for that already - fraud. Makes more sense in my opinion since fraud seems to fit the definition under plagiarism a lot better than stealing - since you are falsely taking credit instead of mis-appropriately taking something away from somebody else.

I aplaud the intent of this author, but there are things I do not like, including the potentially unintentially (in my opinion) inappropriate usage of terminology meant for another situation, as well as this "be very suspicious" attitude that could some day inenvetly knock out somebody who actually wrote that well wrtitten e-mail, as unoften as that actually may be.
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