Plagiarism sounds like such a nice thing, doesn't it, it's a pretty little word, inoffensive, multi-syllable, almost poetic. But what plagiarist actually is - well - it's simple... A plagiarist is a thief. A dirty little thief. A stinking, shitty little liar claiming to own that which belongs to another.
Plagiarism is theft. I hate thieves.
There is a new thief in town.
This is the account on FF.Net. This person is claiming as their own a large number of stories, in various fandoms, by many different writers. All of the stories seem to have been stolen from
Passion and Perfection.
The author info contains one of the usual fake excuses that thieves use when caught "it wasn't me - my friend/enemy/brother/sister/long-lost uncle posted it" or "I was hacked and the hacker did it". In the case of this thief it's the hacker excuse. But the stories are still there.
Tell me... if you found your account had been hacked and things posted to it that you did not post, wouldn't you immediately delete those things?? And if those things belonged to somebody else, wouldn't you - instead of making a faux-apology on your own page - immediately contact everybody concerned and apologise
properly?? I know I would.
If you have an account on FF.net would you consider filing a report -
Plagiarism Report or if you're a member of
Stop Plagiarism, the LiveJournal community run by some of the same people, file a report there.
And if you find your story in her list - the bottom of each story has a "report abuse" button. You don't have to have an account to use it.
I have never (and probably will never) understand what pleasure anybody can get from any feedback, praise, or compliment they receive for something they know they did not write. That they know is actually praise for the person they stole it from. How can that give you any satisfaction??
Ze
