That happened to me recently, too. The person did remove the post after I requested he do so (and after I renamed all the photos so that the links broke).

Wow. Would you tell me how you found out?

OMG paranoid!!! I went and checked my blog for October because I mentioned you when I went to Boston. I don't think it is me.........if it is let me know! I credited you for the recommendation so I don't think I fit the criteria you are describing.

Oh those are some kick arse socks!!!!!

Crap! I was just about to finish a post about this nice sweater called Ariann I just finished, and show off the pictures I took of my lovely model Fara. Foiled! ;)

Seriously though, plagiarism is so wrong. I can't believe someone would steal a whole post of yours!

do links count, when they're directed off site?

i had completely assumed no, but now i'm all paranoid.. but then again, with lawyers involved, who isn't? :)

Copied an entire post? That's plain wrong no matter how you slice it. Hope the offender really understands now.

An entire post?! That doesn't even make sense, why wouldn't someone do that? Isn't that the purpose of a blog, to have your own material? YOUR posts are about YOUR life, how could someone try to play that off as theirs? Strange.

:) not a very smart plagiarist, huh? gotta love those referrer logs!

I too started wondering if I could have inadvertently done such a thing, even though I know full well not to do it. Whew! My hypertrophied guilt complex can go back to sleep now. (Have some rum balls, guilt complex: maybe they'll keep you quiet longer.)

Phew. I like me some peace and harmony! :)
So, in review..it would be WRONG to go around willy nilly and steal entire blog posts, posting them as my own? Hmmmm? ;)
KIDDING.
xoxoxo
almost SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY!

May we copy the content of this post and use it on our blogs? ;-)
Many of us have had similar experiences. (Though not a whole post!!) I think a lot of *readers* could use the reminder.

Frack, it's all over too SOON. I wanted a long, protracted, nasty drama!!!! However, I'm going to copy-and-paste this entire post as my copyright post. Copying the copyright post. How much fun would THAT be???? Heehee.....

I just don't know where a person's head is at to do such a bizarre thing. Why WOULD a person copy and paste an entire post of someone else's? Can someone elucidate? It just seems the most bizarre sort of act. Photos I understand (sort of), but the entire text of a post? Perhaps I need a margarita in order to help me understand. BRB....

Hooray to the end of today's dramas! People are just daft.

Holy cow. I'm glad everything has worked itself out now.

I cannot believe how often this happens in the knit/craft blog community. It's crazy (and kinda sad on behalf of the perpetrators who stoop to such). Glad to hear it is over and done with for you now, but still sorry you had to go through that in the first place.

P.S. - Is it okay to use the word "dude" in one's blog? ;)

I thought that's what memes were for.

I am chewing on the issue of people lifting a whole entry... bizarre. I do lust after your photographs sometimes... ;-)
I don't know whether mine have been lifted. Glad that your "only" problems are plagiarism and lawyers. Things are looking up, right?
Happy New Year.

A good reminder for everybody. I've noticed that many people seem to think nothing of using other people's photographs without permission--even writers who know that stealing words is wrong.

Okay...I cast on and completed the ribbing in record time (for me anyway) and am lovin' the way the yarn feels on the needles (queer huh?). I am going to make it a tad longer as well & ditch the belt. Any additional tweaks you would suggest for the one and only Ariann? I think there will be alot of women walking around in this sweater at some point soon!

In defense of lawyers, only about 90% of us are jerks. I'm in the minority........I swear.

I think that perhaps the lifting of an entire post might be related to the fact that some folks are manufacturing blogs just to get paid for advertising. So, they put up multiple blogs, with just a few pages, and then try to capture a "niche" that will allow for some google hits, and some $$$. If they "make up" enough blogs, that make pennies a day, then they can retire to Miami.......ha! I think it may be happening much more than we know. This practice will certainly ruin blogland, in my opinion.