James Bond-like spy novel pulled for plagiarism

Originally Posted by Steve_D

This sort of thing never fails to astound me. Nowadays, with things like copyscape, it has never been so easy to detect plagiarism, and yet it seems to be so rife, given the number of recent high-profile cases.

As a writer myself, I find it particularly grating that there are so many people out there stealing other people's hard work to make a quick buck.

Yes but the fact that so much content is now available as digital files makes it extremely easy to plagiarize.

[Conor]

Originally Posted by covfam

too me it seams like it would be more effort and time consuming to cherry pick passaged of various authers and piece them together into a coherent story than it would to write your own <shrugs>

I had the same thought.

[Conor]

Originally Posted by Grimm

Good thing the Nigerian I have been doing business with is an ex-pat prince! He assures me that any day now I'll be getting that huge sum of money in my account!

Scambaiting can be fun, but it's not a good idea to do it from your real life email address. Scammers are ruthless criminals with no sense of humour. Set up a free email address and reply from that. They never notice. And join 419Eater.

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Yes but the fact that so much content is now available as digital files makes it extremely easy to plagiarize.

Digital or not, you still have to find the content you want to rip off first, and that can be arguably more difficult now because you have more to wade through.

[MrsJoseph]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

Digital or not, you still have to find the content you want to rip off first, and that can be arguably more difficult now because you have more to wade through.

This is very true. The "author" seems to have waded through whats starting to look like a dozen different spy books to cobble his work together....with not an original thought in the bunch.