Can we really 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.

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...

I doubt it will ever end entirely. It's too hard to track your material on every site. Maybe if watchdog groups got on it. All an individual can do right now is once in a while do a spot-check, paste one of your paragraphs into Google, see if anything comes up. But there's just so much material on the internet I don't know how it can be stopped entirely.

About the legal thing, you probably can but I think it would be hard to pursue. At least you can turn it in to the person's webhost, ISP, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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

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