Serial plagiarism is bad

[tsaiko]

Dear serial plagiarist,

I hate to inform you, but people from one fandom do read other fandoms. Changing the names of characters and deleting random lines of the fics and then posting them as your own does not work. People will notice. And when you do it to someone on my friend's list, you get me and my ninja google-fu skills involved. So far lines from 15 out of the first 20 of your fics have caused Google to cough up other fics by a variety of authors. A quick read through reveals remarkable similarities. Amazing!

FF.Net and the authors have been notified. I'm still going through the 48 fics you have listed and reporting. Good luck in ever being part of fandom with that user name again.

Hugs and kisses,
Tsaiko

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Now this is a time for an evil laugh attack.

[alice_montrose]

Excellent work! *applauds and offers complimentary cookie*

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

I just can't understand why they would go through all that effort of downloading, altering, and then uploading to get feedback on work that's not their own. It's just so abysmally stupid!

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I know! And to do it from so many authors in one fandom (most of the stories are taken from the Tales of the Abyss fandom and then the names are changed) just boggles the mind. Did they honestly thing no one would notice?

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

To quote one of my favorite sages: Good grief.

[attilatehbun.livejournal.com]

Good on you! Have you thought about notifying stop_plagiarism as well?

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even realized that community existed. Although looking at it, reporting seems like a lot of work. I think I'll stick with reporting it to FF.net and the authors and see if they want to do it.

[andra-sashner.livejournal.com]

WTF? Yeah, I'm with animeartistjo on this one; why go through all that trouble? Sixty eight times?! Come on. Surely someone will notice and then what?

...username on FF? I'd like to check up on this dipshit and see what fics he/she's filched. Thanks.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

It's actually 48 stories and most of them are from the Tales of the Abyss fandom with the names changed to Pokemon or Devil May Cry. User names is Nevan x Vergil (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2001387/Nevan_x_Vergil). I only managed to get through 30 of the 48 stories, but the vast majority (like 22 out of those 30) were plagiarized from stories that I could verify. I imagine the other 8 were also plagiarized and I just couldn't find the stories they came from.

I can't believe they're still up, but sometimes FF.net takes a full 48 hours to remove stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

15 stories left up.

[searabbits.livejournal.com]

Huh, your detecting skills have inspired me. Actually some of the stories ARE from DMC, but changed to Pokemon. Yeech. Bastard. How can we go about cancelling the entire account?

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

If enough people complain about them being a plagiarist, they'll eventually get banned. I am perturbed to see that some of the stories I reported are still up. I'll check again tonight and report any more if necessary.

I have about nine replies from the authors thanking me and saying they are sending their own reports. I doubt this person will be around for long.

[velithya]

WTF.

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

My first reaction is to yell, "copyright infringement!" then I realised, hey this is fanfiction XD but still, good work!

[searabbits.livejournal.com]

Oh this is sickening. Word for word. Huh, one of the ones still up there can also be found via google, "with the omitted results included" to be stolen from TotA. ARGH! I'm so pissed with them, but congratulations on your wonderful sleuthing!