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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Seen all 4 and yes they are similar.
Now, I have found some self-published non-fiction books that were blatantly copied either directly from someone else's website or book.
One dingbat's excuse was "he puts the information on his website so everyone can use it as they want". I looked later and got a 504 error when I looked for the book on Amazon.
The most popular ones to steal from appear to be Dave Ramsey, Steven Covey, (may have misspelled his first name), Deepak Chopra, Mark Victor Hansen (spelling), and Jack Canfield. Or on the last two, from their website.
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The
White House Down thing is
more than just similar. When we were watching it (at home, thank goodness I didn't pay actual ticket money for it), we got about...I don't know, 15 minutes into it, I turned to the other half and said "It's
Under Siege!" For the remainder, I'd say "and now this will happen," and sure enough, it would happen. Even down to the bit with the helicopters, one nearly going off the roof (like the ship deck)...it was seriously like a beat-for-beat copy. Even bits of dialogue, albeit reworded, were the same.
It was ridiculous.
I'm not surprised that "Dare to be great!" people are copied. Hell, isn't that
their entire premise? Copy me, do what I do, and you'll be great, too?
Hell, don't see how they can complain, really.
Hitch