{"id":13125,"date":"2012-07-08T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2012-07-08T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:56:19","slug":"poor-little-blog-copiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13125","title":{"rendered":"Poor Little Blog Copiers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have criticised my reaction to blog copiers then I ask you this \u2026<\/p>\n<p>How many of you spend countless hours of your personal time at night and at the weekends learning this stuff and sharing it freely, then to find someone taking credit for your work?\u00a0 How many of you spent 6 months writing a book to find it on warez sites 2 weeks after it was published?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I reacted very strongly.\u00a0 Absolutely I did.\u00a0 And you know why?\u00a0 These people who blatantly copy other someone else\u2019s work to get hits on their sites should have more than enough common sense to know it is wrong.\u00a0 The previous individual was in the IT business and in his 50\u2019s or 60\u2019s.\u00a0 The latest \u201cpoor baby\u201d is in university, and even ignored the copyright I now place on every single blog post.\u00a0 They know better and still feel OK with ripping off other people\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re having pity on criminals then I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some poor misunderstood gang members on a local street corner you can go adopt.\u00a0 Come talk to me after you\u2019ve hugged a hoodie in <em>your<\/em> home.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, if I catch \u2018em, I\u2019ll cripple \u2018em with the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have criticised my reaction to blog copiers then I ask you this \u2026 How many of you spend countless hours of your personal time at night and at the weekends learning this stuff and sharing it freely, then to find someone taking credit for your work?\u00a0 How many of you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poor Little Blog Copiers!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For those of you who have criticised my reaction to blog copiers then I ask you this \u2026 How many of you spend countless hours of your personal time at night and at the weekends learning this stuff and sharing it freely, then to find someone taking credit for your work? 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