I'll keep linking more as I find them, but the main point here is that if I acted like EOJ every time someone copy-pasted one of my articles I wouldn't have time to do anything else all day. The first five or six times it happened, back in 2005 or 2006 I think it was, I was just as upset as EOJ. I actually registered in several forums and asked the admins to remove the bulk of the text and to simply link to my website. Some of them complied, others didn't. But after a while, and as the rate of these occurrences kept rising, I just gave up and rationalized it. It's just how the internet works, I am afraid. The good thing is that your name gets around, and those people who take a genuine, direct interest in what you have to say eventually end up coming across your site and bookmarking it. As for those who are not so interested -- and who might simply skim through an article of yours copy-pasted on some other page, and never think about it again -- who cares?
The only objection is the editing, since it is true that most of the people in the links I posted did not alter my writing in any way. BUT, there ARE exceptions -- this one for example:
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in the PC world people are expected to be smart enough to just lower the resolution by themselves if their system can't handle it, but in the consumer electronics space EVERYONE IS ASSUMED TO BE A TRAILER-TRASH AMERICAN WHOSE HEAD WOULD JUST EXPLODE if a game started stuttering at a high res setting! So all games have to run at the same frame rate in every resolution, SOMETHING WHICH IS TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE HELP OF FRAUD.
http://insomnia.ac/hardware/the_fake-hd_era/
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Edited
In the PC world people are expected to be smart enough to just lower the resolution by themselves if their system can't handle it, but in the consumer electronics space everyone is assumed to be a slightly slower version of Miss South Carolina whose head would explode like that guy in Scanners if a game started stuttering at a high res setting. So all games have to run at the same frame rate in every resolution, something which is technically impossible without the help of fraud.
http://chronicdog.blogspot.com/2008/07/fake-hd-era.html
plus all the unauthorized translations, which god only knows how much they might have butchered the original text. But again, I could choose to see all this as offensive, or I could decide to feel flattered by it.
The problem with EOJ's case is that the games he writes about are too little known for him to ever encounter this problem to the same extent that I have, so perhaps he'll never have a chance to come around to my way of seeing things.
