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

[Lake20]

Copying  someone else intellectual work to promote your project without referencing them is an irresponsible act that has been taking too far and it is also a criminal offense. Any project that cannot put their own idea on paper for investors to read without plagiarism someone else's work is an outright scam project because in the long run they might not have the capacity to run and manage the project.

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[eternalgloom]

At least it makes it pretty easy to recognize them as scams. Though I think there are still too many people who would fall for that.
The whitepapers you've listed aren't really the best examples of whitepapers though. I think I wouldn't even invest in the original projects they came from.

[Kemarit]

One possible excuse for plagiarism, they have hire someone to write it for them and they didn't know that the one they hire just copied it somewhere else. It is s a valid excuse? I don't think so. If they don't have any reason to scam then they should get someone competent or at least try to check everything because releasing their whitepaper.

Yes, it is possible. Now some ICO projects only want more investors, and do not want to do a good project seriously. If writing a white paper is just a task to prepare for an ICO, such this project also needs to be questioned.

And that's what they really do, to hire someone to write their whitepaper. Its not just a task, its a whitepaper, it was meant to show your project to any potential investors, then why don't they themselves wrote it so that they can present it clearly?

@eternalgloom - let's look at the bright side, we can spot them from afar, if they plagiarized other projects whitepaper then obviously a fraudster and scammer and not to be trusted by our hard earn money.

[shield132]

Nothing good about plagiarism in reality but feel nothing on project that does that. If people involved in creating crypto project, can't write whitepaper and are almost copying it, then what they can offer to people? In good case it will be copy shit of anything and in worse, it will be a scam. Always worths to have an attention on everything while reviewing any project.

[Cryptuenza]

I did actually saw 2 projects with stolen WP. How should we trust such a project if its team is lying already in the begining?

[o_e_l_e_o]

I did actually saw 2 projects with stolen WP. How should we trust such a project if its team is lying already in the begining?

Report the projects in the Scam Accusations Board. They will serve as a warning to the community, and generally will be picked up by DT members and the offending profiles tagged with negative trust.

There's a good post here with some advice on spotting scam projects and how to format your report if you need some guidance.

[Kakmakr]

A legit ICO will never make themselves guilty of White paper plagiarism. It is the lazy scammers that are doing this and they are tainting the whole ICO scene with their laziness. A legit project will take the time to put something original on the table and they will never copy someone else's work.

As an investor, I will look for originality in their presentation and something that will set them apart from other ICO's. Why would you market your product or service with someone else's work?

A lot of people do not know how to do this and they get help from people who use basic ICO templates or copies from other people's work and inadvertently makes themselves guilty of plagiarism. 

[RatingToken]

What do you think about the white paper plagiarism?

Have encountered lots of it but tracing up which is copied or being copied would be hard if you just read up few numbers of whitepapers. Plagiarism is always be a bad thing yet there would be no originality or just simply copy others work just for the sole purpose of scamming.If a team cant make their own then most of the time they are building up an another shitcoin in the market.
There no way we can stop these things because projects will pop out just like mushrooms continuing on copying WP anytime if they do like to.

White papers on the market will have similarities more or less.
But we also found that the white papers of some projects are original.
So, the white paper that could have been original, why copy it?
We tested more than 4,000 white papers through technology. White papers with similarities have many smart contract security vulnerabilities

[RatingToken]

ACE (TokenStars ACE)  vs ACAD (Academy)
According to the data of ratingtoken, the text similarity DAR_(Darcrus): 98.53%.
http://ww1.sinaimg.cn/large/604902cdly1fvo36n460dj20qs0emgn1.jpg


MER (Mercury) vs DAR (Darcrus)
According to the data of ratingtoken, the text similarity DAR_(Darcrus):100%.
http://ww1.sinaimg.cn/large/604902cdly1fvo36y2q4ij20pk0e2wfr.jpg

[RatingToken]

Why would no one care for plagiarized contents of whitepapers?

Because people are stupid. I would wager that >90% of people throwing their money away at scam ICOs don't bother to read the whitepaper. They just see an ANN thread promising to quadruple their money in a month or something equally outrageous and their greed drowns out what little sense they have. Having said that, I bet that there's an awful lot of people who haven't read Satoshi's original papers either.

That's how it goes, the hope that they would get more money from investing in ICOs and that what ICO means to them.

Whitepapers, roadmaps and other composition for an ICO isn't really a thing to them as long as it is "promising" profit they would go for it.

Because investors only focus on profit, but they don’t take the initiative to distinguish.

[RatingToken]

The whitepapers you've listed aren't really the best examples of whitepapers though. I think I wouldn't even invest in the original projects they came from.

Can you give an example?

[buwaytress]

This article came out today, confirming in some ways what I've always thought: that getting someone else to write your paper and claiming it as your own, is a form of plagiarism.

If universities think that offence is bannable, stolen or plagiarised whitepapers should brand the project as fraudulent, if not at the very least dishonest.

Essay mills, whitepaper writers, sure, legitimate businesses but they shouldn't be used to write papers for a project. A poorly written paper but containing the actual ideas and thoughts of the project are still preferable to me, than an obvious marketing shill straight off the essay mill.

@OP benchmark WP? Bitcoin?

[Wicked Sick]

If you are investing in a project that has copied the whitepaper of another project then that is a scam but I don't think that having someone write the whitepaper is plagiarism as they are being paid for it and given the content to write on so that makes it the property of the person who paid for the white paper to be written. If it was copied from another project then that is plagiarism

[5ensei]

Most people will not realise if it is copied from someone else, unless there is prominent posting on a scam accusation thread and it catches the attention of google. If these guys can't be bothered to create their own whitepaper then I wouldn't bother to invest, there are plenty of others to choose from

[Harriti]

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.

[oriontab]

Scam! Scam!! Scam!!!  ,that is the ring of a bell in my head whenever I  see such copycats.Scammers lack patience,so they copy existing  work. White papers are like the constitution of the project, if it is plagiarized,i wonder how such lazy/scam team can deliver on the their promises product.I will be weary of such projects

[f12345]

Didn’t wall street journal find 271 plagiarised documents out of 1400-1500 ico related documents and whitepapers? In my opinion investors should look at other indicators in addition to just the white paper. I would bet most people don’t even read them in the first place which perpetuates this plagiarism problem.
Novel idea  : put whitepapers on blockchain

[andrei56]

I have a few thoughts.

1. It's not good to copy

2. the reality is, nobody cares...

It is incredible but I have find out that many people do not really care if the white paper has been plagiarized, which is something amazing to me because if I was thinking about investing in a project and I find out that the project had done something like that I will immediately take off that project of my list of possible investments and yet I cannot figure out why people do not care about such a thing because it is a very clear sign that the project is a scam.

[Troysen]

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.

[Anyobsss]

“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.