 with Nitin. Mentioning that slime ball on all the A-list blogs gives him undue publicity, however negative but he is getting noticed. I am not sure what exactly we can do about it but if anyone of you has Creative Commons, then you can explore violation of CC. Email Lessig to explore plan of action.
I am not gonna write about it although I am not a A-list blogger but enough attention has been lavished on him already. Bombard him with email or spam his comment box for every post.Posted by Patrix at January 23, 2005 12:17 AM
Patrix and Nitin,
What we're doing is making a point that if you openly plagiarise, a bunch of people will take notice and expose you for it. And this is a particularly egregious example, since he copied from so many different sites.
The idea, apart from shaming Pinto, is to make an example of him and make enough noise that it serves as a derrent to any other slimeballs considering it in the future. Beware the power of the bloggers! (And on Monday, there will be another surprise.)
Hey, "A-team" - I like that. :)Posted by MadMan at January 23, 2005 12:28 AM
heyyyy!!!
Suddenly he is a celebrity. Wait a min, how come I am not on the A-list? How come my posts are not being copied?! I hate this Pinto guy for totally ignoring me...looks familiar though. Wish we could all land up at his place in San Jose for some tea.
That shit has finally shutdown his blog and most websites. Well done, guys!Posted by Harish at January 25, 2005 5:04 AM
I think Nitin might have had a point if he was just plagiarizing but his site is in the very least giving misleading information or at the very worst bilking people out of money and committing fraud. I looked up redcross.org on his site and it said I could purchase it! It seems he has already disabled the offending system, which is a good thing at the very least, but several people including my self have taken screen shots.
I have sent emails to his hosting company, internic, as well as google at this point and hopefully at the very least this will get him to stop.
Read his answer. Its online at rohanpinto.com today on the 25th of Jan. Wonder how long it will be.Posted by Vijay at January 25, 2005 3:34 PM
Now he has a link to a Deepak Chopra book on his site. Called
Peace is The WayPosted by Robi Sen at January 26, 2005 12:09 AM
I dont really care if this guy plagarized or not, but being a FRAUD is a criminal offence anywhich way you look at it!!. I have taken your word for it and have filed a complaint at on behalf of all you folks.
lets throw this guy into the slammer for life!!Posted by Jignesh at January 27, 2005 1:18 PM
So we should all make the same complaints to as if they receive a few dozen complaints they will react, they probably wont react on one or 2Posted by tones at January 28, 2005 2:06 PM
Hi Madhu,....
I admit that my rep has been ruined, years of hardwork has gone down in a matter of 3 days and may take 20 years to rectify. But thats the price I pay. I do not want others to pay a price like I did for mistakes that they "may" have commited.
This issue is causing a huge "rift" between people who knew each other so very well and were "brothers in arms". Who am I to cause this. If you do get an opportunity to do anything abot this, i request you to advise everybody else to just let this go. let it be a closed chapter with a "lesson learned". PintoPosted by Rohan Pinto at January 28, 2005 10:56 PM
Rohan, I'm done with it. And I think all of us are too.Posted by MadMan at January 28, 2005 11:13 PM
Check Rohan Pintos site!, it points to Abuse.net! Wow!
Rohan, if you are reading this, i guess, its out of Madhu's control now!Posted by Arjun at February 17, 2005 8:03 PM
Move over 'for your site'. Here's Rediff stealing content from my site!
I run a couple of sites, one of which is a 100 word review blog called Milliblog (). The blog is reasonably popular. Recently, my 100 words on Emdan Magan, a new Tamil film soundtrack, with music by Vidyasagar went up on August 16th. I do have postings on a couple of other forums to back up the posting date in case my date is questioned. Rediff's review was posted by S Sudha on August 21st. ()
Do I see a Kaavya-styled internalized lift here? Sample these!
Mine: "As a soundtrack, Emdan Magan disappoints…"
Rediff: "Vidyasagar's score for Emden Magan is not great; in fact, it is disappointing…"
Mine: "Varaaru is marginally catchy, which will need significant help from its picturization to impress better"
Rediff: "Vaararu Varaaru is marginally catchy, but will need significant help from its accompanying visuals to impress."
Mine: "Kalloori is a routine youngster's track in the usual Vidyasagar mode."
Rediff: "Kalloori is a routine youth track in the usual Vidyasagar style."
Mine: "The composer returns to his Thambi-styled melodies in Koligundu kannu and Mannmeedhu - both are beautifully tuned and very well sung."
Rediff: "He comes up with his Thambi-style melodies in Koligundu Kannu and Mannmeedhu, both of which are tastefully tuned and very well sung."
How's this for plagiarism? And to think I actually run a very popular website on plagiarism (albeit on Indian music! -)Posted by Karthik at August 22, 2006 5:27 PM
Shit remains long time..............., do not steal other peoples work or ideas. Or atleast acknowldege. But the old habits do not die, watch out.........Posted by Barb at March 15, 2007 5:42 AMThere's a hole where an NDP candidate used to be.
Bill Forst, nominated as the New Democratic Party's candidate in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country in September 2009, is stepping down from the job because it doesn't look as though there will be an election this spring.
"When I stood for nomination... I made it clear to members that I would not be able to continue to stand as Candidate if there was no election by the Spring of 2010," he said in a news release. "This circumstance is due to long standing retirement plans for a'sabbatical' year of travel in Europe from June 2010 to June 2011."
Forst, formerly a teacher and school counsellor in Gibsons and Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast, said he'll continue in the position of riding association president and can be contacted via e-mail, telephone and Skype. Riding vice-president Charles Burns has agreed to carry out riding operations in his absence.
Forst took over as NDP candidate in the 2008 federal election when Dana Larsen was forced to resign after videos surfaced of him doing LSD and smoking marijuana... and driving a car under the influence of drugs.
Forst ultimately came fourth in the 2008 election, losing to Conservative John Weston and receiving nearly as many votes as Green candidate Blair Wilson. Liberal candidate Ian Sutherland came second.
Forst went on to say that he remains committed to the federal NDP, particularly its passage of Bill C-311, federal climate change legislation that he said could make the government "accountable to Canadians for action on climate change through regular reporting on measures to achieve firm targets."
He has recommended a nominating convention take place on Sept. 18 to select a new candidate in case another election should be called. If an election is called earlier than that, he said emergency nominating processes will be undertaken.
"I am confident a worthy candidate will be selected," he said.There are three basic grips that are acceptable.  First is the Vardon grip, whereby the little finger of the lower hand sits in the groove formed by the index finger and middle finger of the upper hand.  The second is the interlocking grip, whereby the little finger of the lower hand interlocks with the index finger of the upper hand.  The last, and least popular, is the 10 finger baseball grip.  Being an instructor, I can't see how a grip is affecting your wrist position.  Maybe you can elaborate.Martin Freeman has some bad news for Sherlock fans, stating that new episodes are a very long way off.
While promoting new compilation album Jazz on the Corner which he collaborated on with Eddie Piller, Freeman told The Telegraph that returning as John Watson opposite Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular detective for the BBC isn’t likely write, even addressing questions on pending scripts.
That reception is based on the negative critic and fan reviews to season 4.
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