Plagiarism LOL


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In the “highly interesting observations” department, look what an eagle-eyed observer noticed this week.

From our fitness profile:

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And here’s an eerily similar set of qualifications from a new fitness site:

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There are 2 scary things about this:

  1. They couldn’t even keep the grammar intact. From seeing the site, spelling and grammar are not their strong suits, but they actually wrecked the grammar after cutting and pasting!
  2. The material they stole came from inside the fitness profile. That means they signed up for Podfitness before ripping us off. Who knows what else they stole to make their product?

We won’t be linking to their website, because their company name does not even come up when you search for it in Google, and we’d like to keep it that way.

We have no idea about the legal ramifications of this; we at the Podfitness Blog are not lawyers and whatever happens is well outside our realm of opinion and commentary.

It looks to me like they were “shooting for the stars” and landed on our website.

 

(image credit: University of New South Wales Website)

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