TechXav’s young and adroit bloggers spend hours daily racking our brains and writing articles encircling around the social web. Sometimes, we would have to sacrifice our leisure time, be it indulging in our online alias or watching television programmes, to share our knowledge with tech-savvy adults around the world. We all share a common goal – to excel in the technology sector when we grow up. As tech enthusiasts, we aim to become top-notch bloggers, tech entrepreneurs or even financial investors.
Many readers on TechXav are impressed by our amazing feat in the blogosphere and sing praises. However, there are some people who don’t seem to appreciate our work. One of them is Artful Dodger (his nickname), the founder and editor of Jowki.
A self-proclaimed “15-Year-Old Tech Blogger” from the United Kingdom, he violated TechXav’s copyright privacy by copying several articles. His blog – Jowki, which is hosted on IGXHOST, contains articles that are grabbed from our tech blog without any attribution or credit.
Here are the screenshots I have taken as evidence (click on the images to enlarge):
*Note: The following links to Jowki may be ‘dead’ as the author has removed his posts due to copyright infringement.
His Post on Jowki –
Original Article on KidTechGuru (our previous tech blog) –
Comment:
He said he was “on OfficeSnapshots and came across these images of the big time companies out there such as Google and Yahoo. I couldn’t resist re-posing them so here they are.” What a joker! He was just merely pressing CTRL+C and CTRL+V. That’s all. Who did the hard work of finding all these images? It was us!
His Post on Jowki –
Original Article on TechXav –
Comment:
All the photos of Facebook’s new office posted in Jowki were in the exact order as TechXav’s. It was copied verbatim without any attribution or credit to either TechXav or Office Snapshots. Although he did include one or two short sentences of his personal opinions, but this doesn’t rule out the fact that he was infringing our copyright privacy.
His Post on Jowki –
Original Article on TechXav –
Comment:
Both screnshots may look different but on closer look, you would notice that the description and images are very similar. Yes, the description had been rewritten slightly but the main points are still there.
His Post on Jowki –
Original Post on TechXav –
Comment:
He had changed the title, probably because ours was simply too long. Yes, he did altered some parts of the post but again, the main concepts and phrases were the same.
I, Xavier Lur, representing TechXav, had sent an e-mail, warning Artful Dodger to remove the posts which he had copied immediately. However, this was the reply I received:
Hello Dr. Joker
This email is regarding your hilarious comment on my blog, www.jowki.com.
First of all I would like to say a few things. I was not “wholesaling”
your articles and I did not copy them. They were completely rewritten
and I felt that they did not require a link back.
Secondly, you must be joking about removing them all immediately right?
ROFL… If I was to tell you the truth I’d say that I think you are a
retard but since I’m a nice guy I’ll just assume your were either:
1) High at the time of writing this comment
2) You had an extremely alcohol fuelled night out and you were drunk.
3) or maybe you just are a retard.
I encourage you to contact IGXHost about this and even contact GoDaddy.
Please don’t feel disappointed though 🙂
Please don’t feel offended if I publish this in full on my blog for my
readers’ entertainment and I feel you need some credit for it also 🙂
Thank you for your entertainment,
*Artful Dodger*
/PS: Nice Inggeris. “Wholesale” ANDA JOKER!/
He claimed to be innocent and denied any wrongdoings despite the fact that the screenshots above prove he was violating the copyright laws. As such, I have contacted his web host and domain registrar regarding this issue. Hope they could help me solve this crucial problem as soon as possible!
