Tech editor/journalist outed on TV for SERIOUS plagiarizm watch!
youtube.com — David Richards, who runs several Australian Web sites such as SmartHouse.com.au and SmartOffice.com.au, is exposed on a national TV show for plagiarizing articles from dozens of leading US, UK and Australian Web sites for years, and pretending he wrote them all. His lame-arse excuse? "Somebody hacked my site and posted the content under my name"!
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- rozwar, on 03/03/2008, -0/+6For years he stole work by other journalists and claimed it as his own. His best excuse is that someone hacked into his servers and posted stories under his name? Seriously? I'm glad someone exposed him for the shonk he is.
- beatmybongos, on 03/03/2008, -0/+7Those 1337 hackers...I hate it how they always invest so much time and energy in republishing technology editorial for their own gain. If only they'd focus their efforts on malware and credit card fraud.
- kscope, on 03/04/2008, -1/+4The hacking defence. Genius. Question is, many of these 'products of hack' appeared in the Smarthouse daily newsletter. Which being a newsletter I trust is compiled, edited, etc. by humans. So I ask you, how did this mother of all hacks go on for two years unnoticed?
- junger, on 03/04/2008, -0/+11Richards plagiarized my work. I wrote the highlighted story from CE Pro and had to deal with my work, and that of my site, being stolen on multiple occasions. It's disgusting. His excuse is pathetic.
- z0mbie2099, on 03/04/2008, -3/+2Haha, this was the same guy bagging on Linux. ***** *****.
- CharlesSaint, on 03/04/2008, -0/+3The sad part is, he'll probably get away with it with nothing more than a slap on the wrist, thanks in large to the fact that computer technology in the judicial system is largely misunderstood (or not understood at all). To the average techie, the hacker excuse doesn't even begin to hold water, but throw in a lawer to do some fancy jargon tap-dancing to the judge, and before you know it, this guy will be free as a bird.
- davidrichards, on 03/04/2008, -2/+1Charles: the sad part is that no-one can really even slap him on the wrist, because Richards runs the company. He is the owner of 4Square Media, the publisher of the SmartHouse etc sites, and their editor all in one.
Junger: have you ever considered taking legal action against him for breach of copyright? - Tripw0l, on 03/04/2008, -1/+2Slime.
- Sassmo, on 03/04/2008, -1/+2People like this should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
- 10goto10, on 03/04/2008, -1/+2"Somebody hacked my site" is to online journalism what "that's not me, that's my twin-sister" is to pr0n.
- foxhaze, on 03/04/2008, -0/+1LOL. He got what was coming, there.
- doctorfungi, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2What a douche. He didn't even re-write them. Any 9th grader knows you've gotta re-write and restructure what you plagiarize. What an idiot.
- LimeParrot, on 03/04/2008, -0/+1Nice expose but getting voice actors to read the extracts was a bad idea... just took away from the professionalism. I think they should have the anchor naturally read the extract (from what you see on the screen it's obvious that the extracts are the same and plagiarism has occurred).
- ConAmoreEFuoco, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2So, the plagiarizer was David Richards, and the Digg user who submitted this is davidrichards?
- INDIGGGNANT, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0OMG there is ANOTHER David Richards, maybe we just found the mystery hacker ?
I wonder who SCOOPOZ is then ? Seems to thrive on submitting stories from Smarthouse websites to DIGG...
- INDIGGGNANT, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0OMG there is ANOTHER David Richards, maybe we just found the mystery hacker ?
- kscope, on 03/06/2008, -0/+0Perhaps David has multiple personality disorder, and he has, without his own knowledge, or his knowledge, or her knowledge, and so on, been hacking himself?
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