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Stop stealing content from other sites ... ?
Ness_the_Mess:
"Cutting and Pasting content from other websites and posting it in our Forums is a BANNABLE offense. It's stealing, whether you give credit to those sites or not. Websites live and breathe on advertising revenue, and when you steal their content, they don't get the hits, so they don't get paid. I've already banned a few repeat offenders, but we will now start banning ANYONE who steals content from other sites, unless you can prove that you had permission. "
I realize I am a new member, however I have been visiting the news page of this site for several months. I realize this may sound like a smart remark, however I am trying to be totally sincere when I say hypocracy isn't exactly appreciated either. You see, as I do visit this site at least weekly, I have noticed that all information gathered here is just a compilation of news from other sites. Occasionally, something original will become available for viewing here, and the reviews at other personal comments are 'home brewed' so to speak, but most 'news' can be found at www.ign.com a few hours before it can be here. And if not there, another gaming news site. True, you do often refer to these sites, but you still display all the information and sometimes even quote, without linking to their sites, and thus they are no longer getting the 'hits'. I know by now I have some enemies among staffers, but I am sincerely trying to point out an error in this forum.
Infernal Monkey:
Well, if we wanted to post news from PGC, it wouldn't matter. We're already here!
Most of the time, when someone wishes to share news, it's from another site. Pasting it here means that other site will get no love.
No love = Death.
PGC may have news found on other sites, but then again, every site does. One site will gather something, others will read, rewrite it, post up. Winner!
Ness_the_Mess:
Well then that may be a problem that PGC could help to stop. If one man jumps off a cliff, do the rest follow? They do, and it brings all eternal damnation.
Copying is called plagerism ... in some spelling of the word. True, what goes on isn't word for word. But plagerising is stealing ideas, whether or not the sentences are the exact same.
Berto2K:
You have to remember too that all PGC staff is "donating" their free time to work on the site. Sure they may not get the info up right away, probably because they are living their own life. Other sites like you mention, ign, those editors are at work getting paid 8 hours a day with nothing else to do. Usually when information comes here later, it is because they are trying to get a confimation from a solid source rather than just mentionings (a word?) around the net.
Bloodworth:
The majority of the news we post is from official company press releases which are designed to be used in such a fashion. IGN will usually take a couple of snippets from the same release instead, but we certainly aren't ripping off IGN. If we do source an interview or something from another site, we always make it clear where that info came from, and only provide a brief excerpt so that readers will be encouraged to visit that site if they're interested.
Another thing to point out is that news is news and facts are facts. It's not plagiarism to source facts from other works when you write a research paper, and the same is true for news.