Plagerizing is not cool.

[magnolia_simms]

I just found a completely plagerized story on ff.net. It's here. I hope she deletes it after she reads my comment. Once I realized I'd read a story almost exactly like this before, I pulled out the book (which just happens to be one of my favorite Star Trek books), I realized practically this entire story was copied word for word

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[jij]

*throws confetti for you*

Nice work! I hate stuff like this so much...wtf, write your own work! If you have so few ideas you have to steal this much you have no business writing anything (mind you, I tend to believe most plot ideas are lifted from somewhere else, but you make them your own or you don't write them).

[magnolia_simms]

I hate this type of stuff too. She actually replied to me and said, "I'm sorry you feel that way, I borrowed the idea from the book, I didn't
plagarized it. But I have removed the story if it makes you feel any better."

This was my reply:
Borrowed? You copied his words. You basically copied and pasted paragraphs

[jij]

How do I know if her other stories didn't come about the same way?

Yeah, I think that was the best point you made--if you enjoy the writer's work but find out they plagiarize, suddenly it throws everything you've read by them into doubt. Are you enjoying that author or the other people they've stolen from? It ruins their own credibility--not, I suppose, that people like this care much. *sigh*

[magnolia_simms]

Exactly. After I'd discovered that, I couldn't even look at any of her other stories. And there's no way she could possibly defend herself after that in my eyes.

It's one thing to say "Oh, that was a funny line that McCoy said, I wonder if I could use it sometime" since McCoy tended to recycle his insults/lines/whatever throughout the show. But to copy whole paragraphs outright was just stupid. And so obvious to anyone who's read that book. It seemed familiar right from the beginning, but I'd thought maybe I'd read the beginning of that story before and just never finished it... then I came across that first paragraph and it hit me where I'd seen it before.

[empressith]

That is sooo lame. Why would anyone do that. What a loser!

[magnolia_simms]

They do it because they wouldn't know an original thought if it hit them upside the head.

It really is lame though. As if someone wouldn't notice. There's always going to be that nerd (i.e. me) that has that obscure book that she hoped only she had. I just love the fact that she said she "borrowed" from that book. She outright copied at least 9 or 10 different sections that I knew of without flipping through the whole book to find the rest. I just found the ones that were glaringly obvious.

[empressith]

Wow, that's so lame. Good for you to point out their stupidity.