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Cointelegraph’s plagiarism pro, claims that she “emailed” Ghost Security Group and surprisingly enough, she asked them one of the questions I asked them throughout my interview, and she got the same answer. Well, if she has really reached out for them, then why didn’t with come up with a unique question?

I tend to know someone personally who is a member of the Ghost Security Group, because I am planning on volunteering to work with them and he told me that the group prefers not to make any media appearance and that no one from Cointelegraph has interviewed any member of the group.

Cointelegraph’s Past History of Plagiarism:

It is not the first time that Cointelegraph plagiarizes one of NewsBTC’s articles, as last February they copied a research piece that we published that discussed quantitative easing and how it can affect cryptocurrencies.

Here is NewsBTC’s original article back then:

http://newsbtc.com/2015/02/25/quantitative-easing-bitcoin/

Here is the copied article by George Samman on Cointelegraph:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113576/why-the-european-central-bank-is-paving-the-way-for-cryptocurrencies-op-ed

Last March, I talked to Allen, their editor-in-chief back then, and he added a link to my article back then after apologizing. However, Cointelegraph didn’t even bother to reply to my email regarding the recent plagiarism incident which reflects CT’s new policy; “We will plagiarize and we won’t give a damn about anyone!”.

Plagiarism is a plaque that is infesting the blogosphere and to me, plagiarizing an article is just like “pocket-picking”; a crime that has to be stopped by all means.

Newsbtc holds its rights to file a complaint against Cointelegraph to Google News and other search engine services.

forgetting bitcoin media for a second... lets think about mainstream media, who do it all the time..

these days once a story is made public. then its free to use.. there is no licence that says no one can repeat a word anyone publicizes.

take many presidential Q&A.. if CNN done an interview, where a CNN reporter was doing the questioning.. does that mean that other media outlets cannot use that publicly available footage?

i only say this, because in the liberal world of freedom of speach, decentralised loving culture.. you want to sue someone for using your publicly available interview..

i know you want the glory of bringing the information you gathered to the world, i fully accept that your hard work should count. but maybe you should concentrate on methods of getting your recognition and glory when you print your information. because no matter what. once its in the public domain, others will use it, others will atleast read it and others will talk about it.

even CNN doesnt sue other media outlets for using their footage.

The email needed permission from the author for publication. If cointelegraph never received an email, but copied newsbtc's email then either newsbtc could sue, or Ghost Security Group could sue if the email was copied word for word. I don't think you can publish an email from someone without their explicit permission, and I don't think you can publicly claim you received an email from someone that you didn't receive.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/17/and-the-black-belt-in-bitcoin-news-plagiarism-goes-to-cointelegraph/

for instance if hilary clinton released all of her email she sent to the public CNN.. knowing the world would see it.. she cant then sue the world..

once they are public any media station can quote them.

Exactly.

Exactly.


That's surprising almost beyond belief.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/17/and-the-black-belt-in-bitcoin-news-plagiarism-goes-to-cointelegraph/

"Information is free" - Richard Stallman

I believe all they are asking is that they're cited as reference of the interview. Information is free but it is our duty to give due credit to those who did the hard work. Using and quoting properly is clearly not the same as using and claiming it as your own. Shame on them.

I believe all they are asking is that they're cited as reference of the interview. Information is free but it is our duty to give due credit to those who did the hard work. Using and quoting properly is clearly not the same as using and claiming it as your own. Shame on them.

There are copies/plagiarism everywhere around us. Movies, tv series, etc. It is just some people are more clever than others when hidding its sources.