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To Perezbleu

Feb 12, 2008 8:37AM PST

You post has been removed.
Although it contained good information, it was lifted from the MacRumors forums and/or the Macfixit forums.

Material posted on those forums is copyright and cannot be used without permission. Your post did not even acknowledge that these were "borrowed"

This is in violation of the CNET TOS.

Discussion is locked

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My mistake
Feb 12, 2008 11:11AM PST

Well I wrote them on the mac rumors website and the macfixit website. The reason I did that was because I wanted to get to many Mac users as possible. I guess I can plagiarize my own work can I?


I do apologize if I have broken the Cnet forum rules.

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If this is your own work,
Feb 12, 2008 8:53PM PST

it would have been better if you had mentioned that you had posted it in a number of forums.

Using the same name on each forum would also help, although I note that you are consistent with part of the name.

Note that your post caused concern over at Macfixit too.

P

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(NT) Well now, y'all have me wondering what I missed. :-)
Feb 13, 2008 12:37AM PST
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BTW...
Feb 13, 2008 12:40AM PST

I have occasionally posted bits from other forums but I think I have always left a hyperlink to the info I was referencing. Is this a sufficient method to provide credit to other sources?

cheers

Happy

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That's in the forum policies.
Feb 13, 2008 2:02AM PST

Just follow them and don't copy more than 2 sentences without attribute. We have to respect those copyrights...