● 08.13.23

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●● GNU/Linux News Sites Plagiarised by Computer-Generated Spew/Spam Sites (Offenders), Helped by Google News (Facilitator)

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Google, Intellectual Monopoly at 10:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

From Techrights’ software for assessing RSS feeds, R.R.R.R.R. (as of Sunday):

Image: rrrrr-spamPlagiarism vs original (from which the latter two are derived)

Notice that both the images and text are plagiarism, with a computer-generated (CG) slant to bypass copyright law:

Image: Blackberry Pi Puts Desktop Linux In Your Pocket - HackadayThe original

Image: Building a Mobile Device to Run Linux: The Blackberry Pi - Fagen wasanniSpew/spam

Image: Creating a Custom Handheld Device That Runs a Full Linux - OPP.TodayMore spew/spam; some sites used to do this with Google Translate (generating seemingly original “content”)

Summary: The World Wide Web is being polluted/flooded with plagiarism sites and Google is boosting/amplifying such sites instead of containing this problem; this automated free-riding further lessens the incentives to do technical journalism (original works)

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