Can we really stop plagiarism on internet?

That happens right here in this site. I have seen exact same post copied and pasted. Different names. I have also seen people being shape shifters. Leave as one person and come back as another. It would be really hard to catch these people. I would think that at least here they can trace a copy and paste back to the original.

Just like viruses, plagiarism cannot be totally stopped. Even long before internet was develop, plagiarism already exist. That is why the copyright and patent laws are come to be. This laws are like anti-virus software which aims to stopped this bad habit but still they exists.

Hi dear! It is really very disturbing and disheartening thing to know if someone copies our articles and post the same on other sites. It is like stealing our hard earned money. I think there may not be some restriction on some the sites, where people submit plagiarized material. I think it would be difficult to stop this kind of piracy. Also, it would be difficult to keep a tab of the same. As there are numerous sites and new one keep coming everyday. We are just helpless, I suppose. Have a great evening!

I see you are using a watermarked iStock.com photo on your profile, did you get permission to use that picture?? You have to complain to the person running the website telling them to remove the offending article as you are the copyright owner. If you have previously published it you can reference that as it will have an earlier date on it. If they do not comply you can go to the hosting company. Plagiarism is illegal. I think some people see stuff on the internet and think everything is free, music, articles and pictures. They are so used to stealing they see nothing wrong with it.

I don't think we can stop that because people using the internet is living in different countries that have different laws. other countries don't have any law providing the use of internet and other countries have laws but limited only for something but not cover plagiarism... Here in country have limited rule and guidelines for using an internet. This is what they called ecomerce law but this is not cover plagiarism because this is under another laws which punish people convicted in plagiarism Have a nice day!

Plagiarism on the internet is a very common issue. If you have your own site, or blog, you might want to consider using Copyscape. It prevents viewers and visitors of your site from copying your contents. Aside from that, you can copyright your works, or just use 'myfreecopywright'. Legal procedures are usually land-based or country-based. So if that person who copied your works lives in the same country/ territory as you, you can sue that person for copyright infringement. But this process takes too long though.

Stopping plagiarism over the internet is extremely complicated. Especially if the parties involved are from different countries. If you are for example somebody powerful and well-known who can reach out to the concerned people who can address this then it may be possible.

I don't really know what we can do. Being published gives a bit of rights but your right..what can we really do? I'm anxious to see what everyone says about it. Take care.

As long as there are people in the world who are dishonest and do not care about integrity there will be plagarism.

hello mimpi, We can't stop it if our discussions had been copied and posted on other site, i have seen that kind of plagiarism and it's not a good impression when some one else is copying a part of your brain. how ever, if such acts is done only here in mylot, then the admin can do something about it. as of now, i have seen two cases of plagiarism here and both had been reported to the admin. sadly on the other one which had been a considered a regular had to do something bad, so he lost post. and been banned, we can stop them but certainly in limited ways

I think it is really difficult pursuing legal action on the internet. Remember that the internet is global and you can only sue somebody in his own place of residence. If you were in the US and someone in Africa plagiarizad your work would you travel just to sue. It sounds stupid when it does not involve money. I think the best would he for a body to be formed to handle such issues. Maybe the body would have reresentatives in every country where you can report to if you are a victim. What if you don't know where the person is from, I believe the body should have a way of tracking Id or domain and hosting details. Just a thought

Well this is what I do, go to the post where the stolen material is and post a reply to them, and tell them that they have been caught and then add the link to your posted material that would show the date you first posted the stolon writings, and then go to the administrator there and complain about their member. Works every time.

It's frustrating really! But that's the Internet. No one can really stop plagiarism on the internet. The only thing to do is to wait for that time when we recognize a plagiarist and that's the only time we can act. Well, that's the way I see it.

Well that is the consequences of posting an article on the internet. But... there are some sites that are protecting the work of their uploaders/writers. Maybe we should just choose the site. But. again this protection is also very easy to break specially for hackers.. So i think it is really impossible. Or the best thing maybe is that, post your articles to lots of sites so that it will be famous and the people will know that it really came from you, so that if someone copy it, it's a big mess for him/her because people will think that, He/She doesn't have a brain to write his/her own article!!! O well that's internet and that is life, even in the real world it is happening not only in the internet.. Tsk tsk tsk.. i am very sad T_T

I really don't know, but the way I see it there should be something available when People copy somebody elses and claim it as their own You might need to look into it further

Oh Dear! This would be a horrible thing becasue I frankly have no idea how to counter it. I am just being my usual optimistic self and living ina world of mine.Hope you are not talking about your own experience and it si only a hypothetical situation.THere would be ways and means of dealing with this but I just do nt know.

I think that would be near to impossible. The last thing we want on the internet, too, is more policing, but there are immoral and criminal minded people who see cyberspace as the perfect place to operate, so unfortunately we have to have some kind of enforcement of rules. But it would be like swatting flies one-handed in a barnyard.

we better do something about plagiarism on internet as this has become a sirious issue.. however i personnaly think it is difficult as anyone can uploada anyting form any computer if you have internet.. it is not like we have to submit our aricles to one place and get the approval etc etc.. however if there is a somekind of an internet police is there we would be able to stop plagiarism on internet...

If you have the money to sue then of course you can do something but as a whole, I think it can't be stopped. The internet is such a huge place it's hard to keep tabs on what everyone else is doing. If you have the proof that you are the original owner of an article and you have the money, you can try. Otherwise, as a writer, you should know that once you publish something you should have them copyrighted otherwise people can just freely take your stuff without consequence. Copyright it, own it.

If the current trend continues, I think it is next to impossible to stop plagiarism on internet completely. Plagiarism on internet is very common in my country, China. Most people tend to give no credits to others when they copy and paste in other websites, which is really an impolit way for others. In order to aviod such things appearing again, in my opinion, we should let people realize of the harm of plagiarism. As far as I know, there have been no legal online procedure that can help us stop plagiarism on internet.