[...] I hope by now it is obvious that Karthik Kastury is a plagiarist, someone who steals the words and idea’s of others and claims them as their own. I’m not the first to bring this up, and won’t be the last seeing as how Kathik hasn’t learned yet. After 5thirtyone.com revealed that 33rockers had stolen content and posted it online with accrediting the source, Karthik claimed that it was his assistant who did the evil deed: I’ll tell you what derek. I had no intention of scrapping your content. It was my asssistant who was doing all this. I know this sounds pretty ridiculous but i am really sorry for that. [...]
I lived almost my entire life in a town next to Udupi, where this Kartik hails from - and thus I find it insulting.
Udupi and the nearby places, south until Mangalore is supposed to home for many educated and respectable families. They are known for their humbleness and modesty. This continuous shameless act of Kartik is a real disgrace and I cannot think of any means of retribution.
Man! It has been a log time since I picked by ‘blog-pen’, but I definetly need to make an example out of this. I will not hide that he is from Udupi, as I will not be the one to shove a skeleton into the closet.
I don’t want to defend this guy, I don’t like people who just copy and give no attribution to where they have copied from. When I see an article I like in another blog and I want to post about that same issue because I think it is relevant to my readers, I usually state the source and try to make a brand new text describing the event/service/whatever.
What I was trying to say is that I don’t consider this spam. I think this is some kind of theft. Spam is when you drop a lot of irrelevant content with no criteria, like the scrapper blogs. It doesn’t seem to be the case of 33rockers. He is just a shameless thief.
I think you got pissed of because he could get the links from the A bloggers, but that can happen even if he had just saw the story on your blog, makes a new text for that.
@Vyoma: you’re right, but I’m not sure about the legality of the copyright. I don’t think it is enough to just drop a line saying the texts are copyrighted. You have to register the content somewhere. But that’s just a rant, because I really don’t know about that.
@Karthik, good for you. There are a lot many things that happen in this world, and a huge subset of that will interest you. Put some effort in doing a bit of research and writing orginal content when you blog. Using other people’s work is not at all a sin, but doing that and not giving credit to the original author is a shameless act.
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wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
Derek: He has no partners or whatsoever, He is a solo blogger on his blog.
In his previous comments he says, he is a programmer himself, Even a lamer can change the author’s name on style.css lol
Can CSS be called a Programming ? Even if he created the theme on his own, why would he ask me to make Fauxed XHTML Complaint ?
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
Oh everyone knows it’s a one man show over there. He just tries to justify his actions - when caught - by placing the blame on others.
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
[...] I hope by now it is obvious that Karthik Kastury is a plagiarist, someone who steals the words and idea’s of others and claims them as their own. I’m not the first to bring this up, and won’t be the last seeing as how Kathik hasn’t learned yet. After 5thirtyone.com revealed that 33rockers had stolen content and posted it online with accrediting the source, Karthik claimed that it was his assistant who did the evil deed: I’ll tell you what derek. I had no intention of scrapping your content. It was my asssistant who was doing all this. I know this sounds pretty ridiculous but i am really sorry for that. [...]
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
Ow! Such a disgrace!
I lived almost my entire life in a town next to Udupi, where this Kartik hails from - and thus I find it insulting.
Udupi and the nearby places, south until Mangalore is supposed to home for many educated and respectable families. They are known for their humbleness and modesty. This continuous shameless act of Kartik is a real disgrace and I cannot think of any means of retribution.
Man! It has been a log time since I picked by ‘blog-pen’, but I definetly need to make an example out of this. I will not hide that he is from Udupi, as I will not be the one to shove a skeleton into the closet.
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
And Sérgio Rebelo, all the posts here at Tech Buzz are copyrithed. You can see the ‘©2006 - Tech-Buzz.net’ at the bottom of the webpage.
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
I don’t want to defend this guy, I don’t like people who just copy and give no attribution to where they have copied from. When I see an article I like in another blog and I want to post about that same issue because I think it is relevant to my readers, I usually state the source and try to make a brand new text describing the event/service/whatever.
What I was trying to say is that I don’t consider this spam. I think this is some kind of theft. Spam is when you drop a lot of irrelevant content with no criteria, like the scrapper blogs. It doesn’t seem to be the case of 33rockers. He is just a shameless thief.
I think you got pissed of because he could get the links from the A bloggers, but that can happen even if he had just saw the story on your blog, makes a new text for that.
@Vyoma: you’re right, but I’m not sure about the legality of the copyright. I don’t think it is enough to just drop a line saying the texts are copyrighted. You have to register the content somewhere. But that’s just a rant, because I really don’t know about that.
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
33rockers.com is no more.. I accept my defeat.. I hope to be back with a new blog pretty soon and I swear I am not going to plagiaries stuff anymore..
Thanks for all the insult.. I accept defeat
wrote, on November 3rd, 2006
@Karthik, good for you. There are a lot many things that happen in this world, and a huge subset of that will interest you. Put some effort in doing a bit of research and writing orginal content when you blog. Using other people’s work is not at all a sin, but doing that and not giving credit to the original author is a shameless act.
@Sérgio Rebelo, I will have to agree with you on the fact that it is not Spam - it is just a case of theft. Now about Copyright - it is a simple law, and like the ® and ™, getting a © does not require one to register any where. A person has the Copyright over any work right from the moment of its creation even if no copyright notice is mentioned. It is a different case with ® and ™, where one needs to apply and register it somewhere.
Hence just dropping a line saying it is copyrighted is more than enough.