gibbergibber - 1:16 am on Jan 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

This is what puts me off writing original articles. I did it for a while (as a hobby by the way) but they started turning up on other sites that didn't credit me or link to me.

At least with images or videos they can be watermarked, but what do you do about long passages of text? I wouldn't really want to start publishing articles as image files, they're a pain to read and can cause problems with people who have a resized browser window, a mobile device browser etc. And of course if they're an image, Google won't detect or catalogue the text content, so no one will ever find it.

The thing that really annoys me is the all-pervasive "pirating is a victimless crime" thing you find on the internet... how would these people like it if they spend many many hours of their life perfecting a written text only to see some idiot spend two seconds cutting and pasting it and claiming it as their own? I've even seen commercial sites do this.