Looks like it's plagiarist season!

[alwaysjbj]

Thanks to http://greenapple.insanejournal.com/ for spotting this, and to raemcn for letting me know (and for taking all the screencaps for stop_plagiarism)!

Someone by the name of magickboxgirl has been having some fun. It seems she's plagiarised at least 3 authors, Pattyanne, hollydb and me, and as she's since deleted her journal I guess there's no way of knowing if there are more.

'Her story' posted March 2008 ( http://community.livejournal.com/tin_and_jewels/56784.html#cutid1 ) and my fic To Sin--Divine! written 3 years earlier-March 2005 ( http://www.axisoflove.org/Spike/to_sin.html ) Obviously there some changes to make it fit into the other fandom, but for the most part it is the same.

Comments

[athenewolfe.livejournal.com]

shakes head

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't 'get' plagiarists--what sense of accomplishment can there be in posting something that isn't yours? And also, you'd think by now they would have worked out that they WILL get caught eventually!

[athenewolfe.livejournal.com]

Nods nods - I don't get it either - and like someone will not notice it - the fics she plagerized are - are all well known spuffy fics. I mean come on!

And how can you really get the yummy feeling from praise when you know you don't deserve it?

Shakes head

[liliaeth]

true story, I once saw someone post an actually published Angel novel on ff.net. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to type in an actual novel aimed at the fans of the fandom you're posting it in?

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely INSANE! How can these people possibly think they won't get caught?