"The following is my rant on plagiarism. This isn't exactly news, but fuck you; if you don't like it, don't click 'read more'!"
I don't know what Aubin thinks about publishing rants from anyone, but I think that as long as they're fairly well thought out and fairly well written, we'll publish 'em. So use your heads, punks, and start sending some in!
What is up with all the punk sites stealing news stories from one another? I'm not talking about reading on one site about a story, then writing your own story with the information you found on that site. I'm talking about people who copy and paste right off a site, giving NO citation or credit, and passing it off as their own. I noticed that some people submit news to this site that is copy and pasted off of others, and it is no fault of the editors who run this site. It is, however, the fault of the lame plagiarists who submit such news. It is most definitely not limited to this site either, I see it on pretty much every news site. For instance, punkmusic.com, which is a great news site that does break a lot of their own stories, and usually rewrites those that they don't. For one reason or another they took my shitty paragraph about Weezer's new temp. bass player, and pasted it on their site. I know it is a rather innocent thing to do, and it really doesn't bother me, it's just sorta misleading. People will probably end up thinking in reverse, that it was me that stole it from them, which is my main objection to this all, I suppose. How hard is it to put quotes around it after you post it and say "taken from seek on punknews.org", or even a simple "punknews.org reports:". If not those options, just paraphrase it or something. That's it, I'm satisfied with the amount of everybody's time I have wasted.