My Life Is Complete: I’ve Been Plagiarized (By Darbeel… Or Not Quite)
Well, my life has officially come full circle. That’s right ladies and gents, I’ve been plagiarized.
Apparently, this ‘Darbeel’ blog has decided to join the gang of copy-paste bloggers who have made it their mission to steal every bit of their content from other hardworking bloggers in an attempt at making an easy, quick buck off of the ad revenue that well-trafficked blogs bring in.
Like their buddies Hala Kuwait and Kuwait Space, this Darbeel blog (who makes every post as ‘Darbeelna’) is so lazy that they can’t even plagiarize well. They basically just copy the text in another blog and paste it onto their blog as is but just under their name. This person was so idiotically lazy that he/she didn’t realize that, in the post they stole from me, I had linked two previous other posts of mine related to the subject. AND THEY JUST COPIED THE POST INCLUDING THE OTHER LINKED POSTS.
It’s like, do you want me to eat you alive?
Darbeel have also decided to join their previous gang members–Hala Kuwait and Kuwait Space–in the memorable walking of the plank, where they will definitely meet their blog’s much deserved demise (preferably with sharks and electric eels).
I’m not even going to pretend to have any tolerance for this person or their actions. I already get extremely angry and start seeing red when I discover that someone has been stealing from anyone, and now stealing from me? Oh, they better invest in some good body armor.
Oh, and as is the usual way, this blog spared no exception in their choice of thievery. They’ve seriously stolen from every blogger under the sun, but I’m not going to give this horrible blog the satisfaction of receiving a single traffic click from me more than I need to provide so I won’t link the posts they’ve stolen.
One of the many bloggers that has also gotten her work stolen by this disgrace of a blog was UmKhaloodie, and she was nice enough to point me in the direction of a very helpful article on Kuwait’s legal position on intellectual property theft. Apparently, these laws exist in Kuwait and there are punishments in place for those people that try to act like they’re above THE LAW. Even in social media, these kinds of thieves could be facing “a punishment of imprisonment for no longer than a year or fine of more than KD 500 for plagiarizing a text produced by the original author.”
Hey, Darbeel–You feeling lucky now?
Please help me stop this blog and put it to rest just like we all did in the team effort to bring an end to Hala Kuwait and Kuwait Space. There is nothing about this kind of action that is okay or that deserves to be treated as anything less than a crime. And I don’t really take to the habit of negotiating with people who have committed crimes (and crimes against me no less).
Oh, and one more thing. In case this Darbeel person is reading: Despite the fact that I want to annihilate your blog off the face of the internet, you should know that I feel very sorry for you.
All my love! (Again: please help stop and expose this person in whatever way you can)
EDIT: I’m happy to report that the plagiarized posts have been removed from Darbeel.com and that the blogger has issued an apology and an explanation. Now, personally, I don’t know how much I buy this because I’ve actually tried contacting and commenting on the stolen posts BEFORE making this post and as other posts were being made on this blog AT THE SAME TIME. But, still. I’m a reasonable person and I appreciate an apology in any case. And, at the end of the day, I’m just happy to see the content removed and the action stopped one way or another.
That blogger has replied: http://www.darbeel.com/?p=2413
Thank you for providing this. I’ll re-edit the post and include it. Although I did try contacting this person and commenting to let them know to remove the content BEFORE I made this post.
So, I don’t know. Anyhow, I guess its good that the plagiarized content has been removed either way.
Thanks again! ;D
I think its the new trend
Haha I guess so! And, I’m thinking of starting my own trend. Call it the ‘Pif-Paf’ trend cause I’m having a blast zapping these bugs wherever I find them :p
And I’ve got my sights set on a HUGE bug. Just waiting for everything to come together before I do it ;P
if any new blogger wanna steal or take copy paste any post from others.. this is not a blogger.. this is a Stealogger lol
Haha I guess that’s a new term for them ;p
Although it was good of them to apologize and try to give an explanation. A lot of times when this kind of stuff happens (“accidentally” or not), the blogger in question doesn’t care in the slightest and shows no remorse whatsoever. Fortunately, this person was decent enough to not do that.
شكرا على التوضيح و تفهم المقصود بس كنت اتمنى مراسلى على ايميلى قبل لا تكتبين البوست هذا او تويت مي خاصتا اكثر من 30 بوست انزلو فى مدونتى بنفس
يعنى لو انا سوبر سوبر ما ن ما اقدر اكتب او انقل 30 موضوع فى ثانيه وحدة
اللحظه و التوقيت
اشكر اخوانى و خواتى المدونين لتفهم اللى صار
و احب اقول مو عيب الواحد يعتذر عن خطأ صار بس العيب الاستمرار فى الخطأ
عموما كانت فرصه للتعرف على اكثر من مدونة يديدة علي و اتمنى التوفيق للجميع
ملاحظة : اتمنى لو تغيرين عنوان البوست لانه غير صحيح و كان مجرد خطأ
و فرصه سعيدة
عفواً بس أنا مو بس حاولت أرسل إيميل قبل لا أكتب البوست بل حولت أترك أكثر من كومنت على المواضيع نفسها و هذا الشي موثق عندي.. الشي الوحيد الي ما سويته هو إني أكلمك على تويتر لأني ما عرفت ألاقي إسمك على الموقع
عموماً هذا النوع من العمل (أي الإنتحال) ليس محدود إلى الكتابه/السرقه الفعليه. حتى ليس محدود إلى السرقة المقصودة. في الكثير من الناس الذي ينتحلون كلام غيرهم من دون قصد أو معرفه لكن لا يزال إسم العمل إنتحال أو إنتحال أدبي في الحالتين.
لكن ولا يهمك ؛) عشان أبين حسن نيتي و تقديري لإعتذارك راح أقوم بتعديل إسم البوست. لكن أتمنى أن تتفهم إنه أنا كان لي كل الحق إني أقول الي قلته و إني أتضايق من العمل الذي فعلاً يعتبر إنتحال في جميع الأحوال.
و أشكرك على أسلوبك و إعتذارك و حصل خير إنشالله
مشكورة يعطيج العافية على التوضيح و فرصه سعيدة تعرف عليكم و على المدونه و بكون من متابعينج
congrats for being Plagiarized now u r an official real blogger from Kuwait :p
well im glad that he/she apologized although he/she mentioned a plugin that copies the whole post i dont buy it much coz there is no such plugin at least to my knowledge, but at least he/she apologized & removed it.
هلا محمد بالعكس اعتذرت لانه كان فيه خطأ و اللي صار انا ما احبة حق نفسي فاكيد ما ارضاء على غيري:)
بس عيبه انه اذا سوى كوبي حق كل البوس ما يذكر المصدر و لا يسوي لنك باك للموضوع الاصلي و هذا اللى ضيق حلقي حيل ووهقنى 
عموما انا شغال على تطوير هذا البلق لاني ناوي اسوي موقع ترند و لينك باك للمدونات اللى تحب تشارك فيه 
و فرصه سعيده اخوي محمد
اما فى خصوص البلق ان تقول مافى بلق ان نفس اللى تكلمت عنده لا يا صديقى العزيز فيه و موجود و هذي اللى صار معاي و انا لي خبرتي فى هالمجال
Happy to join the club! :p
And, as far as the whole plug-in issue goes, I’m just choosing to give them the benefit of the doubt and just assume that this is what happened. It’s the least drama-free route to go. And, really, I’m the last person on the planet to know anything about techy things so I wouldn’t be able to really judge from that angle.
Really, the important thing to me is that an apology was issued and that the content is no longer out there. I’m not really down to create any more drama than I need to :p
yeah i find it hard to believe his apology, and also he should have mentioned you, i mean i DO copy/paste occasionally, but i put it in quotes and mention on the beginning that “this is a repost from [blog name]“.
i think it’s alright to repost from other peoples blog but you have to at least be honest and show respect to their work and the material.
Dear Mephisto
هلا فيك و حياك الله مع انه نى صكرت الموضوع هذا بعد ما شرحت السبب وو ضحت اللى صار و اعتذرت عنه الا انى اطررت ارد عليك عزيزي بخصوص صعب انك تصدق االلى صار هذا شي راجعلك و انا مو مجبور
اوضح اكثر من الى وضحته و لا اتمنى انك ما تستنتج اكثر بعد ما انا وضحت اللى صار
عموما اذا انت و دك تجرب االلى صار انا مستعد انسخ اكثر من ثلااثين موضوع خلال 3 ثواني بعد ما تنزلهم بمدونتك و راح تشوف حتى الصور تنزل فى مدونتى من غير باك لينك و يا هلا فيك