Your Whitepaper is copied，What do you think about the white paper plagiarism?

[bitkanu]

“It seems that I ever saw this kind of Whitepaper before”. Have you ever encountered such situation? We figured out there are more and more plagiaristic Whitepaper existed since launching ICO projects becomes popular. We found some examples of plagiaristic Whitepaper.

What do you think about the white paper plagiarism?

1. Title Page Plagiarism

STC vs ICR Same font, same version, same logo with different color


ABT vs ACT Similar logo, same slogan


MTK vs CLR Same content type


2. Table of Contents Plagiarism

PRTS vs SCI Same content


VSM vs COI Same content except deleting few chapters & replacing some project information


AID vs MTE Same content with different sequence


3. Content Plagiarism

STC vs ICR Copy content except picture, we could see that ICR Whitepaper shows blank picture when they couldn’t copy the STC’s picture.


AID vs MTE Same introduction of Platform except replacing project name and deleting inserted picture.


BTC vs SUS Same abstract with same title

Projects who plagiarist other projects definitely have dont have the intention of making their project a success and it is probably a scam. If they really wamt their project to be a succes they will invest time in creating a good whitepaper and will not just copy other's whitepaper's content.

They don't have any competence to run the project, basically if they are copying the whitepaper and that means they can't even create their own product. whitepaper will give a lot of insight about your idea to create such a useful product dude. in fact that even a big company just like can't even create a whitepaper and the developer has confirmed i they are taking another platform's whitepaper called filecoin.

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[TheUltraElite]

WP copying is really normal ). There are so many new ICO projects too lazy to create their own new WPs so they often steal WP of other ICO projects then they'll fix it just a little bit to make it fit with their project. LOL. For me, I often check WP then if I know it's just a copied one then I'll stay away from these projects.

Normal? Are you out of your mind or just posting to add to the cesspool of shitposts to get your weekly quota of post counts done? Copying a Whitepaper is plagiarism at its fullest and its a sign that the ICO team is a group of scammers and there is no team at all.

As any type of plagiarism should be harshly punished, in college if you copy someone else's work you were suspended for the semester and if it was something really serious you were expelled, remember that plagiarism is a little less than theft, but it is still the theft of someone else's intellectual property.

There is a lot of difference between cheating in an exam and copying a whitepaper. Do you even understand what the whitepaper is for? It the written explanation of the project and what the team aims to provide to the consumers. If a person copies in an exam - they are cheating not the examiner but themselves. But in ICOs or even startups, a copied whitepaper is an immediate red flag.

[shillerguy020]

Some simply plan to deceive the investor in this way. They simply can not come up with something new or alternative and take the created, tested. I think these projects should be closed immediately after the appearance.

[funcryptoguy]

I have a few thoughts.

1. It's not good to copy

2. the reality is, nobody cares...

well, actually there is not too much we can do about the plagiarism on the white paper. but for me, if a project and a team is not good enough to do their own white paper right, they are not going to have my money since i would say they are likely more a scam

[fosco333]

Plagiarism is a criminal act, no different from stealing from others. We must prevent it.
Many scam ICO's are plagiarizing the other's legit ICO and made many investors scammed by them.
Any kind of plagiarism should be punish because it can give other peoples problems.

[gerbas]

Since not all people willing to read a whitepaper. It makes that kind of plagiarism get missed and some people ended up getting scammed by a copy pasted project, and makes those people regret what they had investing.

[Asimmo]

Do we have any precedent of punishing any plagiat in crypto?
where it`s claim be opened? in which court?

[idioma1]

This is the indicator that a project is not worth to be invested in.

[andrei56]

As any type of plagiarism should be harshly punished, in college if you copy someone else's work you were suspended for the semester and if it was something really serious you were expelled, remember that plagiarism is a little less than theft, but it is still the theft of someone else's intellectual property.

I agree with the spirit of this, but if we take into account that there have been incredible scams that have made people lose tens of millions of dollars and yet those people have not set a foot on jail then it is very unlikely that some heavy repercussion is going to fall to those people that use plagiarism to try to make their project more legitimate to the eyes of other people.

[organelles]

Honestly if someone copied a whitepaer I don't think that a  lot of people would notice since no one really reads the whitepaper anyway. If you want to know how little people care about the whitepaper just read for some of the projects, you will find so many typos and grammatical errors but no one would be pointing it out because no one reads them

[shiming]

This is mainly because the market is too hot. What kind of projects can raise funds. So there are a lot of scammers. When the market is in a downturn, there are very few such situations, and the fundraising is not enough. There is no plagiarism.

[bit..what?]

A project that simply copies a whitepaper can only be a scam.
If i discovered something like this, my trust in a project would be gone.
Who can not write his own whitepaper, certainly can not lead a successful project.

[GDragon]

If you see this thing with the new copied one,  it means that this project might be a scam or a shit ICO. I also noticed that thing before and I am aware of it but i know there so many people here are still victim of this so it is a good post for everyone especially for those greed investor.

[powerman24]

Some ICOs do not write their WPs own, they pay for it to be done by third party.
For me it is a red flag if find out their WP is plagiarism.

[tsaroz]

Scams are getting cheaper, that's all.
Scammers used to getting a lot of money fall for their scam in past so they could afford better construction of Whitepaper. With the rise of number of people and projects scamming and a general awareness in investors about a good and bad project, scams are getting really cheaper.

[andrei56]

Honestly if someone copied a whitepaer I don't think that a  lot of people would notice since no one really reads the whitepaper anyway. If you want to know how little people care about the whitepaper just read for some of the projects, you will find so many typos and grammatical errors but no one would be pointing it out because no one reads them

I know this is the case, in the past when I was more interested in investing in icos I always read the whitepapers and I was surprised by the amount of errors that I found, then I took the time to report the errors and yet the developers did not care enough about them to update the whitepaper, so not only the investors do not care even the developers did not care about it.

[jinnyjinny]

I'm not surprised at all that white paper copying takes place. People want easy money and as long as there are stupid newcomers who are sure that after entering the exchange any shit coin will grow in price, until then there will be a Scam. Use your head,before make any investments decisions.

[Mila52]

There are certain rules for drafting technical documentation. Therefore, it's difficult to require a variety of White Paper. More often, it's written in a pattern. And as a rule, it is rarely that enybody reads WP. It happens that the White Paper is perfect, but the project turns out to be scamm.

[andrei56]

I'm not surprised at all that white paper copying takes place. People want easy money and as long as there are stupid newcomers who are sure that after entering the exchange any shit coin will grow in price, until then there will be a Scam. Use your head,before make any investments decisions.

This is the truth, there are too many investors in the market that do not see the difference between bitcoin and other coins and they think that if bitcoin grew that much then a small coin can eventually become as big and we know that is not the case but people think that and eventually they pay the mistake of thinking that bitcoin is just like any other coin.

[rricksu]

I have a few thoughts.

1. It's not good to copy

2. the reality is, nobody cares...

The only thing that it reflects the way why ICO managers copy the whitepapers of others is that, they are not legit and original. Meaning to say that, they intend to create misleading content and in short, they aim to Scam in someways. White paper is very important for every ICO since it is the reflection of ICOS project and aim.