Prologue: When Loye Young, an adjunct professor at Texas A&M, caught his students cheating, he publicly failed and punished them by publishing their names and records on his course blog, as well as his personal blog, for anyone to see. This move was in keeping with a promise he made at the start of the semester saying “I will promptly and publicly fail and humiliate anyone caught lying, cheating, or stealing. That includes academic dishonesty, copyright violations, software piracy, or any other form of dishonesty.” For his unorthodox, (I’ll say Batman-esque), methods of dealing with plagiarists, he was fired. The students, on the other hand, have not been expelled. This post is, in part, for you, Professor Young.
Like Professor Young, I don’t like plagiarists. Also like Professor Young, I am an ardent supporter of less-than-conventional means of punishment. Unlike Professor Young, though, I do not want to get fired, so let me state for the record that I had nothing to do with any of the immature examples of retaliation you will soon read about in this article. I can’t imagine who might be responsible.
Someone handsome and witty, I’d guess, and with just a hint of Spider-Man-like qualities.
El Grafico, a Mexican Newspaper, stole Jeff Kelly’s article on Sex Myths Explained by Science. Even though they’re getting traffic and ad sales due to the article, El Grafico didn’t come up with the idea- Jeff did. And they didn’t do the research- Jeff did. Hey, you know what else they didn’t do?
They didn’t upload their own images.
They linked directly to our images. The images in our server, that we have access to. For those not too familiar with how image hosting works, this basically means that, if we make any changes to the images on our end, the new, edited images would show up on their site. (It’s explained a little bit better in this article.)
With this in mind, it would appear that any clever, enterprising and well-endowed Cracked employee could easily alter those images, as sort of a public embarrassment to El Grafico for being such lazy, thieving fucking cowards.
Huh.
Now, I’m not saying I would do this- though I do fit all the aforementioned criteria- I’m just not really tech-savvy enough. I couldn’t, say, look at their article where they’ve linked to one of our images…
…and subtly alter it in anyway.
Nope. Wouldn’t know anything about that. I’ll admit, it sure is funny, though. And clever. Let’s see what other neat little photoshopping tricks I wouldn’t know anything about.
Before proceeding, I’d like to point out that, regardless of whether or not the article in question is taken down by the time of this publishing these are actual screengrabs from El Grafico’s actual website (Editor’s Note: It has not been taken down as of 9:20 AM EST. You can still see these images up on the actual article at the above link.).
Boy, that El Grafico sure does seem to love Nazis. But, again, I wouldn’t know anything about this image-tampering. I certainly wouldn’t know who’s enormous dick shadow that is, looming ominously over that happy couple, (though if I did know anything, I would add that there’s plenty more where that came from).
Alright, let’s see what other images show up on their article.
Hey, is that Disco Bernie, the World’s Oldest Male Stripper? It is! At first glance, he might seem like an inappropriate image choice for this article, but, you should know, the literal translation of “El Grafico” is “We Love Cocks and Nazis,” so it’s actually a perfect fit.
Okay, the next entry on the list is about cousins. Now, in our version of this article, we used a picture of George Michael and Maeby from Arrested Development. Let’s see what El Grafico went with.
Hitler again? The Nazi’s lost, El Grafico, get over it already. Sheesh! Also, Hitler marrying a horse? I’m with whatever sexy and brilliant humorist wrote the caption for that photo; that just doesn’t make any sense. Does “cousin” mean something different in Spanish? Oh well. Let’s move on to the last image in the article.
Hey, a helpful little message about plagiarism! How sweet. I do want to point out that, in the background of this image, the dude with the afro is wearing a Swastika. It’s subtle, but it’s totally there.
…
Not that I know that because I had anything to do with this photoshop or anything. I mean, if I was in any way associated with this image, I’d be able to tell you that the dude also has a photoshopped Hitler mustache that went largely unnoticed due to the placement of the words. Had I worked on this, I would admit that the meticulous detailing that I put into the Hitler ’stache was probably a waste of time in retrospect.
People have been ripping us off for a while, which may come as a surprise to you. Maybe you think plagiarism is reserved for Scientific Journals, or Physics Tests, or, really, anything other than a site that deals largely with pop culture, celebrities I want to have sex with, and dick jokes. You’d be wrong. A while back, FM 105.1 ripped off an Ian Cheesman article and was soundly dealt with. Some site named Myhumors, quite ironically, took humor that wasn’t theirs by posting several of our articles without permission or credit to the source. Funnbee.com illegally posted one of our articles, (which is bad enough in its own right), but what made it infinitely worse was that it was my article, and I keep my shit extremely real.
Needless to say, they took it down.
Both the Northern Star and some Croatian website, the name of which I could not pronounce without some kind of profound tongue surgery, stole Lisa Skye’s article about Music Trends That Must Be Stopped.
There’s more, but, the bottom line, folks, is that people like stealing from us. Maybe they do it because they think it doesn’t bother us (it does), or that we won’t catch them (we will), or maybe they just think “Hey, it’s the internet- Regular laws don’t apply here,” an argument I will be sure to remember when I’m beating them to death for stealing one of my articles.
A lot of the sites who have plagiarized simply remove the stolen article once we send over a menacing, legal-sounding cease-and-desist letter. The Northern Star went as far as to fire the stolen article’s “author.”
So what do you do if you’re tired of sending cease-and-desist letters, or if they’re just not enough? Blogger and One-of-The-Smartest-Guys-On-The-Internet Ryan Holiday advocates writing a simple email and moving on, which is certainly classy and mature, but still, not enough for me. Plus, there’s no code you can put in an email that’ll make a picture of a giant dick shadow show up on somebody’s website. (Trust me.)
But this is really aggravating. I mean, sure, we mostly write about bullshit, and, sure, there are spelling errors in just about every arcticle we publish, but make no mistake: We work hard here. Articles are workshopped, researched, written and edited. Photo research is done, and in some cases, photoshopping is done, sometimes very extensive and time-consuming photoshopping.
Did you think this picture just happened?!
Getting furious whenever someone lays claim to creative work that is not their own is not an overreaction. Anyone who has ever put work into anything can agree to that. And if people keep stealing our articles, I’m just gonna keep putting pictures of dicks on their websites, and if they don’t link to our images directly, I’m just gonna flood their inboxes with even more dicktures, graphic ones at that, and if they don’t link directly to our images and they don’t have an email address listed, then I am going to track them down and mail them severed dicks.
I mean, “I” in the ambiguous sense. Like, “I or someone like me,” but not me, of course. I had nothing to do with all those pictures.
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November 13th, 2009 at 2:31 am
I gained so much respect for you DOB after reading this. Those photoshopped pictures were hillarious!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Damn, DOB. You’re more hardcore than I thought. Good job. Fuh-huck plagiarists!
November 5th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
That Croation website is the only one linked that still has the plagiarized article up, btw.
Although, apparently Cracked’s getting face-time in print and even on TV, albeit in a stolen (and no doubt far less well-delivered) form. Maybe this is something we should capitalize on.
If only there was some way to transfer your genius dick-shadows and Hitler references to television and tabloids…
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Great article as usual, I can only imagine how you guys feel whenever that happens.
Now, I’ve read the comments and totally agreeing with El Elote (I’m Mexican too), I think I’ll point out, that I saw your “7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics” almost word by word (translated, obviously) in a show’s spoof of a Ripley’s Believe it or not wannabee named “Difícil de creer” (Hard to believe). The videocapsule was played on a morning show named “Venga la Alegría” a show aired on Tv Azteca. That means national television.
You should check it out or something, and obviously keep writing awesome articles for us to enjoy & stuff. Good luck.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Man, Fedor is from the red army! I guarantee he can take these guys to war!
October 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
DOB needs a show on comedy central. And BADALEX is a douchebag.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 am
I will steal all of your articles and make moneys from them.
For I invented drinking so I can do whatever the fuck I want.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
You’re all stealing from Me anyway. Fuckers.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
DOB went from a funny guy, to a FUCKING HUMOR GOD. That was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Go after those fuckin thieves I hate it when assholes steal shit too. Even though I usually just get my tools stolen I hate it just as much,and I don’t get to put a dick picture on anyone’s web page
October 15th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Yay! I love you DOB! you are awesome.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
If I could type at all on 2 hours of sleep, I’d have put ‘hate’ rather than ‘had’ on my last comment. Awesome.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
A-fuckin’-men. I had plagerism with a passion. As a writer, I had my stuff plagerized… WHEN IT WAS JUST ON FANFICTION.NET. That shit is ridiculous. Any form of plagerism sucks, and keep it up with photoshopping dicks to those people. It’s really just reinforcing what they are.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Your name is suspiciously similar sounding to one of the aforementioned websites “funnbee”
Why don’t you go back to your shitty “humor” site, man.
September 24th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I think this is particularly funny because most of the “research” carried out on Cracked is lifted straight from wikipedia.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:19 am
EPIC WIN. I love this article. I hate plagiarism.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Dammit, Cracked, you’re article about plagiarism is so good, I think I’m gonna post it in my blog. Since you already did such a nice artwork with those pics, I think I’m gonna link them directly. Oh, btw, if you see the article signed with Klayman, that’s just a an obscure germanic word for “Article appeared originally on Cracked.com, written by Daniel O’Brien, Nov. 21st, 2008″ and the link to this article. Honestly. It’s just a coincidence that I use it as a nick. Not my name at all. It’s all there, I swear…
September 7th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Also, Elgsus, stfu. We all know what you think you figured out through some kind of amazing genius and mind-raping internet reading skills. Remember though that this is the internet. Who would be entertained by a bunch of comments with everyone stating in articulated, well written ways that they understand the meaning of the article.
Stop mindlessly flaming people
September 7th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I would be amazed if someone plagiarized this article. Then you would even need to do anything, they would already pretty much be beating themselves over the head with their own dicks
September 7th, 2009 at 7:54 am
The one I liked was one of the tabloid rags in the U.K. took the latest ‘more images you won’t believe weren’t photoshopped’ and ran it as a page spread story on a friday. Very, very crappy.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I fucking love you, DOB.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I’m reading some of these comments (particularly the ones from people telling the authors to shut up and take it like a man) and I wonder how big of fucking idiots you people are.
It’s not just “let it go, they stole it, too bad for you.” It’s “they stole MY hard work and MY time and THEY are making money off of ME without my permission.” How is this so hard for some people to understand?
The setting for the plagiarism isn’t what’s important; it doesn’t matter if it is a website or a high school paper, the fact of the matter is that it IS illegal no matter WHAT CONTEXT you do it in.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Good show my friend, I never would have thought of that, you rock dude!
August 28th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Wow. Youare the coolest perso ever.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:38 am
In the Melbourne free light entertainment newspaper (MX) i noticed that on of the articles had been completely plagiarized from Cracked with no mention of the source, and to make matters worse passed of as one of their writers material.
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
“I dont know if anyone here speaks spanish but in the first photo of this article the one with the beer googles it says: “de acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com estas son las 6 verdades cientificas sobre el sexo” that translates into something like: acording to the website cracked.com this are the 6 scientific truths about sex. Something like that, I dont know if this excuses plagiarism but they are not passing the article has their own they are giving cracked the credit for it. right?”
No. You cannot just give “credit” to an entire article when all you are posting is that article. If they were writing an original article that quotes or uses portions of the Cracked article they would need to cite the article’s author, date it was published, and where they found it. Because the entire article was posted (without permission) they were very simply stealing it. And because they posted it to draw hits to the page (and generate ad money) they were stealing it for profit which is, well, even more stealing.
“Does it count as plagarism if I decide to use direct phrases from articles in jokes I tell my friends?”
Only if you were getting paid to quote them and you told your friends they were your own jokes and then tried to publish them
August 21st, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Does it count as plagarism if I decide to use direct phrases from articles in jokes I tell my friends?
Because if so, I’m a terrible terrible person.
August 20th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Loved the article
August 19th, 2009 at 1:19 am
People should calm down with this business, the situation is much better
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
“That includes academic dishonesty, copyright violations, software piracy, or any other form of dishonesty.”
“software piracy”
Loye Young sounds like a bit of a tool. Glad he lost his job.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:44 pm
clicked the link and got: 404 not found!
I’d say Cracked wins (or I’m jsut horribly bad at clicking on links…)
July 31st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
@trey and surgio
you have to remeber that the website made money off the cracked article, but did no work for it. just saying its from cracked.com doesnt make it right. it like copying an entire new your times, selling it, then putting newyorktimes.com to make it seem legit. not quite fair is it?
July 27th, 2009 at 1:38 am
There are LOTS of reasons not to steal from Cracked. Not wanting to look like you have the sense of humor of a retarded 5 year old is the biggest one.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Fuck yeah man, great article and way to take a true badass’s stance on the subject. While pacifism and classy acknowledgement’s of catching the dickwipes red-handed like Ryan Holiday suggests does have tact on its side, it’s just not going to convince enough people to stop acting like said dickwipes on a large scale. Keep dickin’ ‘em! Also Sergio, El Grafico didn’t give Cracked credit until they were caught.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Well i do speak spanish, and el grafico did credit cracked. But el grafico also stole bandwith by linking cracked’s images directly. Bandwidth usage has to be purchased and costs money.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I dont know if anyone here speaks spanish but in the first photo of this article the one with the beer googles it says: “de acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com estas son las 6 verdades cientificas sobre el sexo” that translates into something like: acording to the website cracked.com this are the 6 scientific truths about sex. Something like that, I dont know if this excuses plagiarism but they are not passing the article has their own they are giving cracked the credit for it. right?
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
I looked up the article that introduced me to Cracked, “The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses” on google, and saw hundreds of websites that aren’t Cracked hosting the article.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
BRAVO!
*stands up and claps*
you tell em D.O.B
Fuck taking credit for peoples work. I’ve been such a huge fan of you guys for a while and I know the effort and research you guys put into each article. Some of the best moments of my days is because of you guys, and you deserve every bit of credit.
June 19th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Ha ha ha, this is still so good.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am
I completely understand. I mean… I am not big enough to be ripped off yet, but even at this stage, I feel paranoid about content theft. And then there are people who feel that ‘the original author/ artist should just chill.’ and that ‘who cares who came up with it first’?
Excuse me. I do. So should you.
Seek permission. I’ll probably give it. Give credit… link back. Most of the time, that should suffice. But don’t steal, and then ask me to ‘chill’…
June 13th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I totally agree with your point-of-view.
Though I have never published anything myself and, thus, have never been ‘ripped-off’; I am trained as a technical writer/proofreader and can therefore understand your frustration.
But, just to clarify one point, these “dicks” and “dicktures” that you would be (justifiably) sending out; are they photographs of your own (or of someone like you) penis? or …
… would you just take them from the internet, or link to them?
June 12th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I am now profoundly more scared of you than I was before.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am
can i start a website of my own translating your articles to spanish, if i credit the original authors?
June 10th, 2009 at 4:20 am
I totally agree about hating plaigerism and such. Could I share cracked articles w/ the original author credited? I don’t want any severed fingers/dicks showing up in the mail, please!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Oh, and this article is about plagiarism, not pirating.
Pirating is a reaction by consumers who are unsatisfied with products being offered, and therefor feel justified in “stealing” it. Which is a moral grey area, because despite what you think, it is stealing, but that doesn’t necessarily make it that bad.
Plagiarism is entirely different, taking an article that you didn’t write, claiming you did, then recieving monetary compensation for it, would not fall in a moral grey area, that is something that is pretty concretely wrong.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:05 am
@JHEYAR “all i know is that once you put shit on the net its not yours anymore you share it with the world”
that’s like saying once someone releases a movie or publishes a book, its not theirs, its everyones for the taking. yeah, putting a claim on creative work can be tricky, but things on the net aren’t just up for grabs.
June 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
If you admire someones work why would you steal from that person and make them hate you? Seems like something only a total asshat would do. Pirating is different. When you pirate something you never claim that YOU wrote it. (Unless you are a really special kind of douchebag.) I really don’t think this guy is after money. Just credit for his hard work.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:14 am
all i know is that once you put shit on the net its not yours anymore you share it with the world
June 4th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
“Ever downloaded a song with a P2P app? Or made a copy of a buddy’s CD? Or copied a track from someone’s iPod (fuck Mac) to yours?
Yes?
Me too - that’s why I don’t fucking whine about it. Theft of intellectual property is the norm.”
You’re comparing downloading a book from the internet because you don’t want to pay for it to downloading the same book, changing the author’s name, and telling your friends you’re the one who wrote it.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Meet William Brian MacLean. William is empathetic. In fact, William is so empathetic that he actually has empathy oozing out of his “yin-yang.” This is a heretofore unsung condition plaguing our coffee shops, indie concerts, and vegan eateries.
Beset with this awful malady, William still manages to find the time, energy, and courage to face the world head-on. This is the true American hero.
Sadly, his busy schedule doesn’t allow him enough time to properly consider the key differences between internet piracy and plagiarism, resulting in lines of reasoning that even the RIAA couldn’t swing.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:11 am
I’m a writer, illustrator & musician. I have empathy coming out the yin-yang (but let’s not get into details).
BUT.
Ever downloaded a song with a P2P app? Or made a copy of a buddy’s CD? Or copied a track from someone’s iPod (fuck Mac) to yours?
Yes?
Me too - that’s why I don’t fucking whine about it. Theft of intellectual property is the norm. Thank you, Baby Boomers, for raising us right.
So, STFU & get back to writing the great shit I’m addicted to.
Hm… am I addicted, or just a dick, Ted? (Don’t steal my line.)
May 24th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Dude if u ever need help for making things rigth and by “making things rigth” i mean cursing in spanish u can always count on me
PD: by “u” i ment anyone and by “me” i ment me i dpnt have a job anyway TT.TT
May 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
This is amazing. I’m going to do the same thing if anyone steals my images.
May 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am
I couldn’t be bothered to read it..
Don’t be a copy right nazi thou : /
April 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Awesome!
April 26th, 2009 at 9:21 am
by far the funniest article I’ve read, keep it up and give em hell!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 8:28 am
*dances* go cracked, go cracked, go cracked…
April 24th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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April 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Way to go…fcuk the ba5tards
April 20th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
My roommate and I, students at NIU, were talking one day about how the Northern Star should “stop trying to be Cracked.” And a few days later, lo and behold, I recognized the “music trends” article. I told a friend who worked for the paper, and was informed a few days later of the plagiarist being fired.
That said, the Northern Star didn’t hire me when I applied, and I’m still a little sore over that. I mean, they published a plagiarized article. I mean, damn.
April 11th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I also jerk off to El DeBarge….so what do I know.
April 11th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I use cracked articles for my myspace blog. But I leave them intact and let it be known there from Cracked.
April 8th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
To be fair, I’ve used some sections of your articles for blogs, but I’ve always credited you. I even try to promote people to come to Cracked, because….well, It’s obviously awesome.
Keep it up, Cracked!
-Cracked Fan
April 8th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Dude, you should have let me write those insults on your pics in Spanish. I read El Grafico as part of my morning ritual, and I have noticed that they get out of like with these things… I applaud your effort in dishing out justice.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
One time I was trying to reach the website with one of my stories on it, and because my laziness knows no bounds I just typed the title of it into Google instead of searching through my millions of bookmarks-and found that someone else had posted my story as theirs! Only they being the clever sort changed things around like: “Oh My God, Mom!!?” was instead, ” MOTHER!? MY GOD!”
Yeah. Like I said, clever.
Now, I thought it was funny because I always thought that story was shit, but I told a friend…who told a friend…who told a friend, and next thing I know this poor chick to getting like 200 comments from people calling her a bitch and blah, blah, blah, it was fucking stupid. Honestly. The funnies part though was, the story had been me making fun of Twilight, and the reviewers/the person who stole it were all die hard Twilight fans.
April 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Ugg. That reminds me of when I was a little girl and I got pissed at people for stealing my ideas (like adding a balcony to a popsicle stick structure) while the councilers said, “Copying is a form of flattery.” I’d have rather had my signiture move to myself then be flattered.
April 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Your dickswap pictures would have been much more effective if you used Spanish for the Spanish speaking newspaper.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:18 am
nope, too late whats her face, he’s mine
there’s another girl on cracked?
March 29th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Mr O’Brien, this may sound terribly forward of me but I think I want to have your babies
March 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
This is like never ending chain. I mean, El Universal (El grafico’s Father) it’s the source of most of the news on press. Regional newspapers, magazines, Radio and regional tv take the information from El universal and give them the props. So, is not sane what El Grafico did with cracked article, wheter gave the credits or not.
In Mexico there are creative and talented enough people to do things like this, but, sadly a lot of fat señores behind a desk give a fuck about talented people. Newspapers always think: quick and good material, no matter how you get it.
I’m down with Cracked, i hate when newspapers try to fool us, bue i hate more when i realize they make it hapen.
ass kicking cracked style! oh yeah!
March 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
every mexican knows el grafico is shit. but they sure have some badass deaths on the cover each day
February 26th, 2009 at 4:50 am
… and on that note, the photoshopping is done on images that you have the (&maybe paid for) rights to alter in this way, right?
Good! keep up the good work guys.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:09 am
amm, bueno, ellos mencionan en el articulo que es una traduccion de cracked.com, no es que lo apruebe, pero al menos les dan el credito por el trabajo intelectual.
i mean, they mention in the article thats a translation from cracked.com, at least they’re giving you the credit for all the research and intellectual work, that gotta count something dont yu think
February 16th, 2009 at 9:49 am
So, can I steal your stuff if I say, “Stolen from Daniel O’Brian at cracked .com?”
February 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Actually we call gringos to white fat people….
And we hate them…
February 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
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February 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
Wow, missed this article when it first ran but that was a good read. Watching Cracked crack photoshop artists go to work on them though is like watching the a monster truck raly. Kind of one sided and over before it began. Thank you for including Hitler saying his vows with a horse after the worlds oldest stripper though, that really hurt my eyes, brain, and penis
<-me
Keep it real DOB
February 1st, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Guys, can we stop arguing on what the word “Gringo” means and focus on that douchebag himself? In fact, we should change the meaning so that it translates to “Uninformed jackass who doesn’t know that copyright infringement is a terrible thing to do” That about describes him.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:01 am
SEÑORES SEÑORES POR FAVOR AND PLEASE!!!
For starters, El Universal is one of the oldest newspapers in Mexico but I’m not taking sides (and if I did, I certainly wouldn’t be taking theirs), it’s just an statement. Since the media in Mexico is most of the times corrupted by the various politicians and people within the powers-that-be, we can expect ANYTHING from ANYONE down here (Mexico).
Now, regardless of all the experience & history this “newspaper” might have, the fact that not everyone speaks English here makes editors useless if one lazy “reporter” decides to translate information from a random site that his editor will not be able to understand. Since the dude is dumb as hell (no pun, no sterotype usage), he’ll even think that the rest of the people who reads El Universal (El Gráfico’s dad) will never know he got the info from Craked.com or any other site. Unfortunately for him, I’d read the article in your site before he decided to translate it and I realized what he did. Oh, and believe me when I say he tried his best on his translation (powered by Babel Fish) but it was all awkward and funny. It seemed that some inexperienced person in translating was… uh… nevermind. The fact is that both EL Universal and its bastard son El Grafico lack design, quality and seriousness. It’s fun reading either of them because I constantly find Spanish grammar mistakes and words being mispelled more frequently than you can find plagiarized articles (every freaking time).
So, dear Craked authors: Thou shalt not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities, and guys, El Universal is already unproductive so please, keep on being funny and don’t mind them. I am mexican and I am not ashamed of being mexican just because some eeeeedeeot stole your stuff, so he is the one who should be ashamed, not me or the rest of us, mexicans. You are in all your right of making fun of them and I wish they (both newspapers) were ridiculed by everyone who catches their neverending mistakes.
Oh, and by the way… we call gringo anyone who won’t understand and/or speak spanish or not look “mexican” enough and NOT in a derogatory way. (yeah I’ve read Ask a mexican! as a mexican and found it funny as hell– you laugh because it’s true…)
Saludos from Mexico City
Alfredo Bandido.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hey, I discovered cracked.com because an argentinian website that has a similar humor stile once posted a translated article (7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable). But the guy that posted it asked for permision to the autor.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
[...] it is with interest and not a little mirth that I read this on my new favourite website, Cracked, and in particularly the blog of one Dan [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Trust me of all people- gringo/gringa is NOT dergogatory. I could give you examples, but they would be highly personal and NSFW.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:47 am
[...] glad to report that the radio show in question no longer exists, but personally, I much prefer Cracked.com editor Dan O’Brien’s method for dealing with internet article piracy (Full disclosure alert! I write for Cracked also). [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 1:08 am
[...] glad to report that the radio show in question no longer exists, but personally, I much prefer Cracked.com editor Dan O’Brien’s method for dealing with internet article piracy (Full disclosure alert! I write for Cracked also). [...]
December 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
those are some funny pictures. put the text into spanish so the ppl on that site know what happened lol.
December 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I guess that was already brought up various times. sorry.
And here in Mexico, gringo can be both merely descriptive or an insult. Anyone who says differently is either ignorant or lying.
December 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I don’t care much one way or the other, but you may or may not be aware that the site did originally credit cracked.com with the work…the exact words are “de acuerdo al sitio cracked.com” which translates to “according to the site cracked.com” You can see this on the first image in the article.
not rocket science I know, but I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. not that it means they had permission or anything like that.
December 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
stop with the “gringo” stuff
“gringo”, here, in south-america is the word for blond-headed, or non-spanish speaker people…
and is NOT an insult…
and “spic” doesn’t mean a sh1t for us, latin-americans.. so it doesn’t hurt…
cracked.com FTW!
December 19th, 2008 at 3:20 am
RE: Fatfreemilk
Spent much time in Central America? Gringo applies to anyone from the US. Typically it’s more quickly applied to Caucasians, as it’s easier to assume they’re Americans, whereas people of African ancestry populate many Carribean and central american locations, so their origin is not as readily assumed, but rest assured once they learn an African is American Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Peruvians and Nicaraguans will call that person Gringo too. I won’t speak for the other Spanish speaking countries as I haven’t been there, but in all likelihood things are similar there.
And, it’s not always derogatory - it’s contextual.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Well played
December 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
“That’s incorrect.
I’m too tired to explain so I’m just gonna copypaste from Wiki:”
WRONG! Just because Wiki says so, doesn’t make it gospel.
The term Gringo is meant as a term for anyone that is white/foreign. It is an offensive term, because it’s meant to isolate a particular type of person. Gringo is also a white rooster that they have in Latin America. If you are Asian,Black,Indian and foreign, you are not seen as a Gringo.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
[...] Anyway, that’s why I loathe plagiarism. And for a great post on site’s retribution to a plagiarizing ne’er-do-well , check out this Cracked.com blog. [...]
December 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
“first learn Spanish gringo is a derogatory term used by Latin America to express extreme displeasure at someone…”
That’s incorrect.
I’m too tired to explain so I’m just gonna copypaste from Wiki:
Gringo (feminine, gringa) is a Spanish and Portuguese word used in Latin America to generally denote people from the United States, but in some cases it is also used to denote any foreign non-native speakers of Spanish (regardless of race), especially English-speakers.[1] Anglophones may consider the word pejorative, and dictionaries such as the American Heritage Dictionary classify gringo as “offensive slang”, “usually disparaging”, and “often disparaging”.[2] However, Hispanophones disagree on whether or not gringo is derogatory; it is not considered as such by the authoritative Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo
Long story short:
No one uses it as an insult.
December 14th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
HAHAHAHA Gringo. You’re pathetic. It’s not being spoiled if someone takes your hard work, claiming it’s theirs. It would’ve been different if they had cited their sources, saying who the true author was and where they got it from, but no.
This is a hilarious article BTW, I’ve been reading cracked for a while, nice job getting back at them.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:29 am
first i have to say good job Dan for finnally geting some revenge on playgerizing morons…
second please put gringo in a top 10 list for funniest misinformed idiot on the planet…
and to gringo…
first learn Spanish gringo is a derogatory term used by Latin America to express extreme displeasure at someone…
you also need to learn that just because a country is poor doesn’t mean that they are exempt from retaliation of stealing, and the ethnicity thing is YOUR problem not ours… i can almost garentee you that you would have called it “the fukin funyest thing eva” and agreed with him whole heartedly if this was about white people or another ethnicity… it just proves to me that YOU are the racist not him and that you probably saw the word Mexican and immediatly began typing a response throwing in a quote or two for good measure… people like you sicken me and have no place in this world.
the funniest thing is that you punish yourself by calling yourself “Gringo” other wise know as a “untrustworthy foreigner”
December 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
First I want to state that El Grafico is no innocent page. Any respected writer would not have done this nor would would have allowed it to happen. I am ashamed that this was the doing of a mexican page, but “the person who chaged the pictures and is obviously not related in any way to Dan” took the proper measures. But next time write the stuff you want to write in the page’s original language, there are people from many parts of the world reading this page, just ask (ask me if you want a good translation spanish-english). Oh, y “gringo” deja de estar chingando con tus pendejadas y no defiendas a un criminal.
December 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Hah, nice one Gringo, you racist.
Mm, white people are fat, and it’s alright the “poor mexican website” to steal because they’re Mexican right, just like you “Gringo”?
Well guess what? White, black, mexican, chinese, whatever, plagarizism is not acceptable. Your idea that Dan shouldn’t have done this to a Mexican newspaper because they’re Mexican and Poor is racist.
All stupid people should be treated the same, stupid Mexican or stupid anything else. These chumps got what they deserved.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
In the stolen rap article
“8,000 WAY TIE: IRV GOTTI, YO GOTTI, BIG GOTTI, DON GOTTI, JUAN GOTTI, BAZOOKA JOE GOTTI, etc
First of all, have some originality”
Oh dear, someone failed irony class.
December 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hey gringo, you’re a fucking moron. Have you ever had anything stolen from you? It sucks, no matter what it is.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/12/29-stupid-rapper-names-of-day.html
Stole the rap article.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Dan you are a whining little bitch. Get over it. I fucking hate the way you write, with your “I wouldn’t know anything about this image-tampering. I certainly wouldn’t know who’s enormous dick shadow that is”
What a faggot. Your are a pussy. Just come out and say it. You have a Nazi fetishes and your projecting your fantasies onto this poor, innocent Mexican website. Why? Because they “stole” some images and maybe translated an article from your page!! You remind me of a spoilt child who wants all the sweets and won’t share with any other children. I bet your fat. Aren’t you? You are, your fat!
December 9th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
when I was 10 years old, i told my mom i thought i was getting my period. But she didn’t wanna waste the money on tampons or maxi pads untill she was sure i got my period. So instead that day she sent me to school with double pantyhose panty liners & and like 10 minutes after our first recess i got my period!!! I BLED ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IT WAS EMBARRASSING!!!!! I LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE GUTTED A CATFISH OUT OF MY ASS.
December 9th, 2008 at 10:13 am
[...] them in a different area of your site - something, anything! We could have done something like this but we decided to take a somewhat less harsh approach by just switching out the [...]
December 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I saw another article stolen form this site. It’s on http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/12/29-stupid-rapper-names-of-day.html
Go get these guys, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen them steal from sites.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Well done!!
December 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Muahahahaha!
http://Susanimate.spaces.live.com
December 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Im totally gonna make a website and plagarise this article just to be ironic
December 5th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Next time, WHOEVER made those pictures should find a Spanish speaker (just email me, mister) to translate your messages into Spanish so they’ll really hit home to the posters & readers.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Dan, I want to steal your anal virginity.
If it no longer exists, I will accept a photoshop.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I wonder how many stolen songs the author of this article has on his iPod.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Why do people have to steal articles from nobel peace prize winning writers like yourself Dan. I mean what the fuck? They should go back to doing donkey shows and shit.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:30 am
As a Mexican, I’m proud to say WELL DONE!! Those thieves should be F/&(ed Up!
I really love this website, Good for you, these things should be necessary mostly because people in here is so f/&(ing retarded and lazy, so they copy (well, steal) Everything: Just watch the commercial Televisa did for Bejing… and many MANY things (you should really make an article: “Hecho en México”: 10000 things Mexico stole from U.S and the rest of the World).
I really support your website. F((//K “El Grafico”
Ps. GREAT Website
December 4th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Don’t worry DOB. I’m fairly sure that natural selection will take care of all involved very shortly.
VERY shortly…
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Fuck El Grafico!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
That was a cute little bitch rant. Seriously though, you value this shit waaaaay too much.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 am
[...] 5 - Boy oh boy, people at Cracked get pissy if you ever steal their stuff - Cracked [...]
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 am
You’re the fucking man Dan. God damn you son of a bitch. You’re better than that faggot Gladstone. I’m so glad his bitchass is leaving. More room for you to go out and do your fucking thing. Dan O’Brien 4ever biatch!
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Also, @Hoffman: Elsmere Music V. NBC (1977) U.S. CoA. Fair use via parody. Don’t post things you don’t know shit about.
Sorry for the double up.
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I love how people on the internet have no concept of what copyright law does. You can’t say “According to cracked.com:” and then reproduce the ENTIRE FUCKING ARTICLE. That doesn’t make it ok (even in Mexico, as per international copyright treaties). No, fair use statutes do not apply here. If you wrote for a living, instead of to flame people in internet comment sections, you would have a better understanding of how seriously journalists take plagiarism.
Well played, DOB. Well played indeed.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 am
I just found some of he photos on another rich woman seeking fun site
—–W e a l t h y s o u l M a t e .C O M—-
but my question is what he is doing with such a service
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 am
Fucking A man. I mean shit knawmsayin like what? I don’t even read that guerra faggot shit man. 209 motherfuckers from Stockton steal shit all the time, but stealing articles is for pussies who don’t know how to pull a gat knawmean. Shit. Chinga tu madre pendejos!
December 1st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
@spics GO HOME!!!: Yes, the darkies totally came here of their own accord and stole our country. We came from Europe, kicked out the Native Americans, and brought the “Darkies” here. They didn’t steal shit. You sir, are retarded.
@Chuck Liddell about the KKK fags: I agree.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hell yea, man! Photoshoppin those pictures was freakin awesome!
December 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Stupid KKK, ignorants, and racist assholes need to leave cracked.com! Fuck off this is a diverse website.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
God Damn Dan Byrd. How dare he endorse that monkey.
Iamhereandwontleave go back to mowing my lawn dammit.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hey a-holes, I’ve never heard of “cracked.com” before, maybe you should thank that shitty newspaper.
However they should have upload the images to their own servers, not use your BW IMHO.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
@Spics GO HOME!!! this is our home, learn some history, Texas, Arizona, california, New Mexico???
November 30th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Those dumb wetbacks are all a bunch of burglars. They will steal our jobs like those darkies stole our country!
November 29th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
this
# eh Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hey LoneRanger, citing something with a hyperlink is usually considered sufficient. Way to be an idiot.
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is not correct unless permission given
November 29th, 2008 at 7:55 am
funny, but it makes me miss hate by numbers.
*sniffle*
November 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the images translated into Spanish so that the readers were to know what you’re trying to say? Just saying…
November 28th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
And I found the page because the article says: “De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com”
CRACKED.COM!
November 28th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
errr!
The translation from english to spanish was perfect, the reporter that found the article obviously had an excellent english level. So it wasn’t a babelfish stuff.
And I knew this page thanks to the article, so this is probably good for this page.
November 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
@ Gisela: How could it add to their fame and reputation when it’s not referenced? When it’s not, most people would read it, and attribute it to the source they saw it.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Doesn’t it add to fame and reputation, even if there is no reference? I thought all cracked-authors were high above such insular attitude…
November 28th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh, Creamy Seizure, I loved that statement!
“Without plagiarism, I’d never have an original thought.”
Mind if I plagiarize that for everyday conversational use?
Come to think of it, you probably plagiarized that from somewhere, so fuck it. I don’t need your permission.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
[...] This is Why You Don’t Steal from Cracked - El Grafico, a Mexican Newspaper, stole a Cracked article. They were so lazy that they [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Is a Mexican site u most be put your captions in Spanish and don’t use hitler we dont care that bastard.
be more smart next time. there is a babel fish to translate
November 28th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Ironically enough, now a lot of Mexicans (at least the staff of the office I work in) are now addicted to Cracked.com. Thanks, El Grafico!
November 28th, 2008 at 1:42 am
I am not agree about any way of stealing and plagiarizing is a way of doing it.
But in the ” Grafico’s” Article, it says ” De acuerdo con el sitio Cracked.com …” ( According to the site Cracked.com …”), so I must say, that is a way of giving credit right ?. So I have 2 guesses.
1 - Either the “Grafico” realized that Cracked.com discovered the stealing and they quickly add the line to give the appropriate Credit, but, the damage was done and no excuse or attempt to fix it was valid.
2.- Or is it just that Cracked.com doesn’t know a bit of spanish and didn’t bother reading the article to realize that the Credit was there but they just found their own pictures on another website, or throught the statistics,and then they knew were the traffic was coming from and suddenly got mad ( I would feel the same way) But if the line was previously there, then the ones who made an awful mistake, was cracked.com
No matter what happened, I think there were better ways to deal with it, ” EL Grafico” is part of ” El Universal” and this last one is one of the best and most trusty Newspaper in Mexico, so I can tell you that someone will get fired about this…
the Only good thing about it, is that I’ve never heard about cracked.com until now, and I liked it. so I will be adding the site to my Safari’s Bookmarks.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:50 am
[...] Notiz für später: Niemals bei Cracked klauen [...]
November 27th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hey LoneRanger, citing something with a hyperlink is usually considered sufficient. Way to be an idiot.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
El Grafico removed the page… but St Google saved it for all the simple human beings!
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:a-FxSHVo1OcJ:www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/556748.html+las+6+realidades+cientificas+sobre&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
November 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hola…..revisen el supuesto ” codigo de etica ” con el que trabajan en el Grafico…..en especial el punto numero 2, Honestidad……http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/disenio/directorios08/codigo.html
Saludos!
November 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Hey Cracked, I’m assuming you asked permission to:
msnbc.com
wired.com
msn.com
telegraph.co.uk
news.com.au
abcnews.go.com
to use them as sources for putting together your article. Right??
Because, you know, just putting an hyperlink to their site is not enough.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
ja ja ja ja VIVA LA PIRATERIA!!! …se pasan los del grafico simple prueba de q son una bola de HUEVONES!!…
November 27th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
look i’m mexican, and you are rigth, mexican news paper are a big joke, that’s why i don’t read it, I realy sorry, because this MF show us as bulglars, you should go to the law, saludos cariñosos desde México
November 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Man, that’s bad, I live in mexico, I’m Mexican and all I can tell you guys is that I’m disappointed AGAIn with Mexico, that’s why this country still a 3rd world country, because people like “El Grafico”.
I’m ashamed of being a Mexican
Marco
November 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Without plagarism I’d never haver an original thought.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I don’t know if plagiarizing is such bad thing, because otherwise we wouldn’t get such a great revanche…
November 27th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I tend to replace said picture with goatse. They drop the hotlink pretty quickly after that.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:02 am
[...] mexicano "El Gr??fico" y a un sitio llamado Cracked. La gente de este ??ltimo sitio descubri?? que fueron plagiados en el art??culo "Sex myths explained by science" por el medio mexicano, debido a que [...]
November 27th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I love messing with people who hotlink my images. I have two more tips for you:
1) As well as replacing the image, you can resize it, which will usually screw up the target website’s formatting.
2) In the image you put up, use screenshots to duplicate delete, move, etc buttons from the target website. That way, when they go to delete your image, it’ll take them a couple clicks before they find the real button.
A while ago, I made a joke bingo card to satirise the things that other foreigners in Korea whine about way too much. Somehow, for some reason, the image got passed around the Japanese Internet community, mainly in articles bashing Korea, which was never my intention. No idea why, but if you want to see how I deal with racist Japanese plagiarists, click on the link in post 61. AWAY from coworkers.
http://4-ch.net/politics/kareha.pl/1143111506/
November 26th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Just got hot linked to this site from college humor. I’m with you guys 100%, props on fighting those thieving f*****s. and a wicked article.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
good for you fellows, plaigarism is sickening to me… I only wished you had gone further. I suppose all the Nazi stuff is pretty solid though. One can’t argue with the subtlety of a simple “EL GRAFICO HUMS ON MEXICAN BALLS” though.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I’m not surprised about any of these. If you take into account that they stole their name from a highly reputed magazine in Argentina, founded in 1919, to gain themselves a few more readers by mistake over the internet.
check the good one: http://www.elgrafico.com.ar
November 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:a-FxSHVo1OcJ:www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/556748.html+el+grafico+realidades+sexo&hl=es&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ar
Here’s a cached page from google where the images appear, if you want to see how the article looked like.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
#445.(What the current column record? 500? Can any one say anal sex with a reach-around?)
I tried to find the original article but they must have taken it down. I did find one blogger who put agoogle cached screen grab of El Grafico on their site. I can’t read spanish but I’m guessing they did it for posterity as a tribute to your awesome revenge.
November 26th, 2008 at 7:30 am
wow. i’ll be sure never to steal from you, and try to report any stolen shit so you can do the pictures thing again!
November 26th, 2008 at 2:00 am
hey people working on crack articles.
Just keep up the good work that your doing. Whenever I read one of your article it really lift me up. And I hope all the people who plagiarized your work get’s what they deserve. A swift kick to their balls or cunt.
I hope you do an article on how you make those photo research or how you decide on what article to write.
thanks again for the entertaining read.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I had this one guy who kept stealing my video clips for a project back in high school. Since I never saw him because he was in another class, I’d delete his project, write what essentially amounted to “STOP STEALING THESE CUNTBAG” on the stolen clips, and yet he’d keep creating the same project using the same clips again and again. I finally had to rat him out to his teacher. Dumb asshole.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Awesome. Simply awesome.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Stupid KKK piece of shit. I’m white and I don’t condone bullshit messages like yours so FUCK OFF!
November 25th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Henry Hoffman needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! Fuckin’ brainy ass whiteboy. Shit mofuggas need to stop jerkin it to God Of War and shit. BIATCH!
November 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
hahahah almost as funny as plastic spiders decorating your thanksgiving turkey: http://tinyurl.com/6gwzwj
November 25th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
A writer for the newspaper at my college got caught stealing stuff from Cracked and he got canned…totally deserved that!
November 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
[...] Actualización Esta es la respuesta de cracked.com acerca de los sucedido con El Universal. [...]
November 25th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Isn’t Cracked really just plagiarized from Mad anyways?
November 25th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
This is an awesome article. My style of writing, for sure.
I gotta say, though, THANK GOD SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO GET BACK AT PLAGIARISTS.
Dirty bastards.
Also by modifying .htaccess file on your server you can redirect all hotlinked images to another one, rather than changing the originals. That way your aticle stays intact.
mexicano “El Gráfico” y a un sitio llamado Cracked. La gente de este último sitio descubrió que fueron plagiados en el artículo “Sex myths explained by science” por el medio mexicano, debido a que
Get it? I plagarized the comments. Ha, so fucking ironic.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
This is an awesome article. My style of writing, for sure.
I gotta say, though, THANK GOD SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO GET BACK AT PLAGIARISTS.
Dirty bastards.
Good job, and thank you for helping me survive this boring class!
Cracked rocks my socks off of my body into the laundry basket.
(And I’m not exaggerating.)
November 25th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Hi, nice article. Just wondering whether you own the copyright to the images that you put in place? You don’t? What comes around goes around I guess.
Also by modifying .htaccess file on your server you can redirect all hotlinked images to another one, rather than changing the originals. That way your aticle stays intact.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am
It did say that the article is credited to cracked.com…on their page. At least they mentioned it. Should have given an original link or something.
Lame of them to take it, nice pictures.
November 24th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
[...] mexicano "El Gráfico" y a un sitio llamado Cracked. La gente de este último sitio descubrió que fueron plagiados en el artículo "Sex myths explained by science" por el medio mexicano, debido a que [...]
November 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Genius payback plan! I just tell everyone to come here. So much easier. Keep up the good work
November 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Another one from Argentina’s “H” mag (”Maxim” but worst): http://www.hombre.uol.com.ar/edicion_0058/happyhour/nota_00.htm
November 24th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
man el imparcial is plagiarizing too XD haahah
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/VidayEstilo/20112008/341316.aspx
November 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Those FUCKING wetbacks go back to Mexico! Stupid beaners ruining our white websites by stealing. Learn English instead of that speaking that spic language goddamned greasers! Fucking Jimboys.
November 24th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Now THAT was some badass payback!
November 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
@ Dermagren-
I don’t know from Science, but I DO know that “Daniel” was recently announced as the most popular boy’s name of the year.
Suck it, “Michael!”
November 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
[...] I know, this was an extremely boring post. Go here for something more interesting. Then write over and over again, “I shall not hotlink nor [...]
November 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Nice! I whole-heartedly agree!!
November 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am
You are champions to all those who have nothing to fight for.
Well done good sirs, bet that will wipe that shit eating grin off their faces.
http://www.theblogdonkey.com
November 24th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Dan O Brien…you’re my reason for breathing. I just want to put that out there. And if, for some reason, I end up owning you one day (and you and I both know that day is imminent), I will force you to write articles under the threat of thirty lashes. Or thirty one… it depends on my mood that day.
I would also like to point out that science has recently pinpointed the name “Dan” as the sexiest name to ever grace human existence.
And don’t we all miss the fat chick spam? I know I do.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Speaking of Croatian sites, your and few other articles were also plagiarized on net.hr and idesh.net. I think more than few articles, linked some of the articles after complaints from their readers.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:55 am
you know, before I stumbled upon Cracked, I used to regularly visit Listverse.com.. until I found out that some of their articles are just unfunny rip-offs of this site’s.
the funny thing is that site’s administrator doesn’t like Cracked for its “lack of research.”
meh. he can suck ass.
November 24th, 2008 at 12:57 am
[...] hotlinking a las imágenes. La gente de Cracked se dio cuenta del plagio, en inmediatamente realizó una responsiva. Además de un texto ácido [como de costumbre], tuvieron la brillante idea de modificar las [...]
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
@Rousie
Not this oddee.com crap again… Nobody took work from there, the writer just saw an article on the same subject matter as theirs and overreacted. If you bothered to check the comments section of the Cracked.com article in question you would find links of similar articles written BEFORE Oddee’s (or just google the topic and find as many as you like) and I imagine there’s been many written since. The writer of the Oddee article is just being obnoxious to think that they were original.
NEXT.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I am a proponent of sealing them away in a terrifying death maze/hotel, the disintegrating their bodies in quicklime. MMMMMM Sexy
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
and by hard and fast i mean that the printing lab was unfortuanetly left unlocked and a page long letter to the editor was printed on the front page of the next school paper…telling exactly what was going to happen to the football field if another article was ever stolen…im not sure why but it actually happened again…and so corn was planted into the football field, which resulted in a cornfield for them to play on the next fall…
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
i truly appreciate what you did, this coming from someone who recently found one of his own articles published in another schools paper…needless to say retribution was dealt hard and fast…
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
it’s so easy to get angry about plagarism, but fabulous to do something about it. i love you man.
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I was talking to a black friend, and I completely stole your idea that white people can be cool now that The Man is black. I’m sorry DOB.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
when I read this I just think of Tijuana. All of those knock off products of american goods-minus the donkey shows. Mexicans have no dignity when it comes to making money, they just steal whatever idea and call it their own.
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
[...] quieren leer el articulo completo en ingles y con mas imagenes editadas este es. Que la masque El Universal por piraña y que tambien chingue a su madre el puto gringo chillon [...]
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Sure, Cracked is complaining about plagiarism… but haven’t thay done it themselves?
For example, may articles from oddee.com have appeared here,
so don’t play innocent, because at least the ideas ahve been robbed form somewhere else…
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’m too scared to comment. :S
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This has spread all over the Spanish-Language news services. Unfortunately, It’s the real article, not the “fixed” one.
Just google for “Las 6 realidades científicas sobre el sexo” with the quotes and see what happens.
Vergüenza sobre usted Univision!
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Link pictures from encyclopediadramtica.com/offended
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hijo La Chingada. To besas mis nalgas pendejo!
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
It happened again.. no citations were made this time…
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/VidayEstilo/20112008/341316.aspx
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
Lol, wow.. i literally laughed out loud with a lot of your stuff. Which is hard to do for me on the internet, unless its a video of something humourous and spontaneous happening. Like a midgets head imploding to a crumpled meat ball.
But, i digest.
The fact that you got back at the plaigerisers (?), plaigerians (?) is excellent. The humour in them was huge also.
I think i just came a little, that’s how happy this article made me.
But anyways, thanks for the read and if i steal some of your stuff, i’ll be sure to add a mailing adress.
I loves me severed man parts i do.
-Aidan.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 am
400.
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
Excellent work!
In Oz, we have a programme called media watch, who name and shame plagiarisers in news and current affairs, along with pointing out the outright lies.
I had to email them the link for this!
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am
The image editing was a great idea, but couldn’t you have gotten someone to translate it for you? It would’ve been so much more effective.
Also, music copying is nothing like stealing articles. Me copying someone’s album would be like reading an online article to my friends or reading a book from the library. I’m not making money off of it, nor am I claiming that it’s my work. Stealing articles would instead be kind of like stealing someone’s song, translating it, and passing it off as your own.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:42 am
Those guys that wrote that el grafico article just went back to doing my garden and mowing my lawn for 4 dollars an hour.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 am
Alright..you were a little brilliant, Happy?
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 am
Really?
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 am
Absolutely fantastic!
Very well done with some extra spicy ingredients at the end. A little like poetry in motion, the send an wave and you are the ocean.
Splash
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 am
This Article - Absolutely Brilliant!
I am a great supporter of revenge! Nothing gets my blood pumping like the humiliation of my enemies.
And this was hilarious too!
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
Damn. Daniel? You are HUGE. I was thinking about commenting. Now I realize that’s pointless. Four hundred million people love you. Wow. Did you change aftershave?
Hm. Kinda fun.
Thousands today. What’s that like?
I’m loving it. Great.
On the other hand..blow me. I’m looking for simple. Frick.I ain’t getting it..I need a boob report..a reason why Kristin is big..don’t let this go to your head..
aloha,
jo
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
So CRACKED is basically firing Gladstone? Is that what you’re saying?
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Kudos dude for finding it. Its bullshit enough people have to do that. This is a very original website, and I go to crack every time.
And “whoever” edited and reposted the images….fantastic.
‘n’ Fuck’em….Let their websites buuuurnnn……
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I really hate them for doing this… Im against them and anyway… FUCK YOU kevin
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
FUCK YES. Oh, and “mauqk”? How terribly subtle of you. I bet you’re not at ALL involved in a certain periodical, with quality suggestive of preemptive recycling in the form of WIPING YOUR ASS WITH IT BEFORE YOU READ IT. Yeah. Not at all.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I live in Mexico and read this newspaper. And I can say the DESERVE IT. Everybody talks about THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO STEALS, not itself. Cracked must show who stupid they are, and everybody must point to them. If you want to tell them how smart they are, check some of the links I placed in an earlier post.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It’s good to see you guys standing up for your work.
You guys put a lot into this site and it shows in quality content.
Good luck in nabbing any poor bastards that cross your wrath.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
This is absolutely amazing. Probably one of the most clever things I’ve ever read.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Great article! LOVE the idea! Though I agree, you guys really should have gotten nastier with those pics, like replacing them all with Goatse, Tubgirl, and every other sick and twisted pic you can find. Maybe that will REALLY get their attention and make them think twice about stealing your articles.
Too bad I can’t speak Spanish. I’d have been more than happy
to translate for you.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
While I fully support the idea of plagiarists to be humiliated, the professor acted as professors all too often do. The professor himself wasn’t plagiarized. How many have you had who named themselves judge, jury, and executioner on every issue? Too many of them have a God complex and think they’re immune to punishment. If my child goes to college on my dime, he’ll have to deal with me as well as punishment thru the proper channels. The reason these students were not expelled was because the school couldn’t afford the pending lawsuits. They had to keep them in school and fire the professor just to say “hey, he acted on his own and outside of our professional code of conduct blah,blah, blah”. He committed just as big a sin as the students did. Cracked did not cross the line in handing out the same kind of punishment because they can handle those who steal their work any way they wish within the law as long as the owner doesn’t feel as though the work that was paid for isn’t embarassing the company.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
i truly lost it when i saw the dick shadow picture, fucking a
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
DOB, I salute you. This is far and away the funniest article you have ever written, probably because there’s passion behind it. Let us in on any future revenge plots you, or someone like you, concocts?
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I think Goatse would also fit well with those images,if “someone” were
to misplace it there.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I fully support you just so long as you don’t become friends with the RIAA and their ilk and start mailing us dicks just because we read your articles or some equally retarded bullshit.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I am Mexican, as well as “el Gráfico” and I used to read and respet “el Gráfico” (which is part of “El Universal”), but learning about this has just shattered any respect I had in regard to those guys… they should have handled it in a mature way, maybe apologizing… this just embarasses me.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
This wouldn’t happen if you had hired me and my handsome, talented friends to translate Cracked into Spanish, forming thus “Cracked en español”. Time to think big, guys.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
The giant dick shadow totally made it. You, Mr. O’Brien, are a winner. I don’t know what of, but it is undeniable.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
i’ve never commented on one of these before, but i had to after reading this… hilarious!
kudos on sticking it to those asshats, and make sure to give a pat on the back from me to the mastermind behind those pictures. you know, since you had nothing to do with them…
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I’m from Mexico, and guess what? It’s not the first time El Universal (or El Gráfico, the little brother) steals from Cracked. The 6 Most Innovative Brothels From Around the World
by Ian Fortey was also published some months ago. I normally woudn’t mind, but they version tried to be a CNN ‘funny’ article about ‘wacky stuff’. Such a shame there’s no exact translation in spanish for douchebag. That’s fucking stealing in my book.
Mr. DOB, hats off to you, as always.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I’m kinda glad they stole your articles.
That was a good read.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Fair use, hhh, fair use.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is godamm hilarious. got what they deserved. but what about a light retaliation? This is, you know, the Internet.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I might be wrong, but isn’t Cracked also stealing content? The images they use in the article, for example the beer goggles they got from this site:
http://www.noveltyhut.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=190&=SID
seem to have been stolen. Reproducing them on cracked isn’t fair use and I highly doubt they got permission from Novelty Hut before using the image.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like Cracked staff members are being hypocrites.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Way to go cracked. You totally pwned those latinos
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Kudos, Dan! Keep it up, dude.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Yup. “El Gráfico” is a cheap newspaper whose sources are teh internet and YouTube.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Sterling work people. Fucking hilarious - keep it up.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
How many Web sites do you see out there where you have an authentic Web site, and then about one hundred others that have the same info, with a word or two different? It’s called cut and paste, and it is the easiest form of plagiarism…linking, however, is another matter…but that doesn’t require a PHD either…
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
[...] Lo cuentan ellos, y tambien puedes ver el cache de google, que por supuesto ya desaparecio El Universal. [...]
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’ve been ripped off before, too. It sucks. My roommate at college last year stole a physics paper I had worked on for a month and a half every night. It was forty-eight pages. Extensive research, editing, experimentation, calculation. I was horrified.
Funny part is, bitch didn’t change the headers so my name was on every page except where she had changed it on the title. That raised a few questions.
Plagiarism is cowardly and low. Plus, you get the shit beat out of you by O’Brien.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Brilliant work. People who steal articles deserve whatever kind of hell they get.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Man a shitload of spanish websites are copying the article… Its even in Univision… The fucked up thing is el grafico still has the article but without the images…
Fuck the spanish sites. Abajo con esos malparidos.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
Thumbs up, DOB. Brilliant.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Wow. Well Done. It seems that they took the articles down now though. At least I cant get to them. “DOB: Advocate of the healthy use of righteous anger.”
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
‘kin brilliant!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Should i tell you that i used a quote from that article about cute murderous animals for a song’s name?
It’s “i made this out of spare parts and IT STILL CAN KILL YOU!”, it is about platipi
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Mexican scientist discover the seventh myth explained by science and is “copy paste will give you a lot of women”, (copied and pasted from elimparcial.com)
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
lol I go to Northern Illnois University and read that article and thought that was firmilar. i go on cracked.com on a hourly basis because you guys ARE LIKE CRACK. thank you for pointing out about writers ethics because those sons of bitches in the northern star decided to publish some mean shit when my friends died in a car accident last year. anyways i love your testicles! I mean articles!
-Jun Hong
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 am
let me just say that you are amazing and i totally wish that i had the guts to do things like that.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Man, I totally missed my opportunity to put myself down by coming in here fuming, saying, “They made money off of my work, and let me tell you something… (dramatic pause as I seethe and roll my shoulders) …nobody makes money off of Jeff Kelly’s work. NOBODY. Not even Jeff Kelly.”
And then I could have thrown in an “Or else!” or “to be continued…with pain!” or something equally as threatening in order to intimidate them. Maybe throw a little Tombstone at them… “You tell ‘em I’m comin’! And Hell’s comin’ with me! We already bought seats together, and they’re non-refundable!”
Well, it would have made me chuckle on the inside, anyway.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 am
Myhumor stole your article about guys who stole their best idea? Delicious.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Looks like the fucktards did take it down. Thank goodness for google cache! Keep up the great work, loved the article!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 am
Right on Cracked, at last someone who dares to say it loud: stealing other people’s work isn’t “normal”, “right”, “cool” or otherwise “allowed, becoz it’s the web doh”.
It’s theft, end of line.
Besides, I’ve always been amused to see how the biggest thiefs will howl foul when someone dares using one of “their” works…
Keep up the excellent work!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
Another newspaper doing the same thing:
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/VidayEstilo/20112008/341316.aspx
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am
You are such a great man DOB. That is why I love you and your deep dicking! You teach those crazy mexican a lesson!
Love you!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 am
Australian television show JTV recently made away with what seemed like an exact duplicate of the article about the most racist Disney characters. Sure, it was filmed and the segment had a new introduction but otherwise it was damn near the same thing. The same characters were used in the same order, hell, even the same jokes were used.
There was not even a single credit saying “Inspired by the real life story of a comedy article written on some website”.
Go kill those jerks.
But kill them with your mind.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am
Great blog! im going to borrow it for my site!
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 am
People are making money from you Dan…
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am
Lupine Wolf: I like Babelfish’s Translation better
1. The title: Annoying note of the Graph to cracked.com
2. “…We offer excuses to the publishers and the users of cracked.com…”
Don’t know about you, but this sounds more accurate to me.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:27 am
Although you can’t hear it, I’m applauding you…. or someone like you with similar qualities who knows something about techno-crap…
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:35 am
I agree. Go to jail losers.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
I think what a lot of people aren’t getting is that the original article (which did not have a link to Cracked), did not actually say that it was a translation of the article, but “according to cracked.com”. This seems like a big difference to me, because saying according to is like citing them as the source of your information, not as the author of the article. For instance, Cracked regularly says something like “According to recent findings, writers for Cracked all have penises measuring from 13 inches (Chris Bucholz) to 31 inches (Daniel O’Brien)”, with a link to who said it, etc. They took that information, and made an entertaining article out of it. So saying “according to cracked.com” is like saying that Cracked had the information, and Random Mexican “Author” wrote it in a funny way. They should have said clearly that it was in fact a translation of the article, along with a link. Also, they should not have linked directly to the Cracked images, that’s just fucking retarded.
There, that should just about sum up what was the actual problem there.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 am
You weren’t nearly harsh enough. Cease and desist letters seem ineffective. You should have made a bigger dent in plagiarism while you had the chance.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 am
talent borrows, genius steals!
- Oscar Wilde
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 am
loveyourwork!
i’m be hotlinking to you soon,
because i just can’t wait to see
what you’ll do in response! :+)
-bowerbird
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 am
@Janet-
They made money off of Jeff Kelly’s work, actually, (his article, not mine), though that’s still a fair argument because, as a Cracked employee, I view all of our writers as my sexy, talented babies and will protect and defend them like any good parent should, (which is to say, via hastily-thrown-together-photoshops).
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 am
Adris and [J], you guys aren’t seeing the issue here. The site may have said “According to cracked.com” but the fact is they DIDN’T ask for permission to post the article that wasn’t theirs to begin with, and they EARNED REVENUE from all the ads on their website when people visited the article.
So, they MADE MONEY off someone else’s work.
Those are the two reasons DOB is so pissed. They didn’t ask for permission, and made money off HIS WORK.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 am
Great article! I hate people who plagiarize and then whine and bitch when they get caught. I’ve actually caught a few art thieves red-handed on the internetz, but unfortunately most of them are on Deviantart and Deviantart is run by cocksuckers and fuckbuckets. So, no one gets punished. Good job, Deviantart!
As for Young, yeah, it sucks that he was fired, but what he did was against the rights of the students. Though, I sorta wish it was a professor’s right to drop kick any student who is caught cheating in their class. Now that would be a great show. (Especially since most students who cheat in class think they’ll never get caught, since they’re oh so skilled. Fucking morons.)
I think Young would now agree that sometimes the need for swift justice can lead us down the wrong path.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 am
You gotta hear me, Daniel O’Brien, I dare you!
First, I despise plagiarism. But, was it really plagiarism from El Gráfico? (Yes, I know how to use a diacritic and you don’t!) So, if you link something to its original source, is it plagiarism? Let me tell you what does “De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com, los siguientes son las 6 verdades científicas sobre el sexo.” mean:
“According to the website cracked.com, the following are the 6 scientific truths about sex”.
So, is it plagiarism? To me, they were saying that it was totally yours.
Now I quote a comment by you:
“Also, I guess we COULD have sent an email, but it’s a Mexican site, and I don’t speak Spanish.”
Clearly you don’t, but even if somebody doesn’t, they could note the phrase “cracked.com” in the very screenshot you put here. Also, didn’t you realize that if they “plagiarized” your article, they must SPEAK ENGLISH TO DO THAT? Do you think that nobody in Mexico speaks English? Not even the ones who work like in, say, a newspaper? I don’t work in a newspaper, but I can defend myself in English.
Seriously, did you think that the right way to protest against the supposed plagiarism was to put dick and Nazi pictures? Maybe if it was a blog or comedy site like Cracked, but a newspaper? Don’t you have a little common sense?
I really don’t like plagiarism, I just think that you should have thought a little more before acting. I am a great fan of Cracked and specially your articles DOB, but I would have acted different in your place.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 am
oldest trick.. did it several times at egay.. always funny
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 am
Nice.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
It will be funny if someone plagiarizes this…
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 am
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November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am
I’ve never heard of this site before El Grafico mentioned it.
You should be thanking the free advertising!!!
OMG, you really see the half empty glass
:S
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 am
Ok i havent even read this yet, just the intro, but i gotta say this is awesome already!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 am
This is gay, Get a life
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Well… the article of “elgráfico” text mention that it was based on cracked.com
Is that considered plagiarism? I mean, cracked.com was cited. You can even see the cite in the beer glasses picture.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
they gave credit, boo hooo wah wah wah
if someone stole my tv and gave me credit for buying it, id still be pretty pissed off because my tv was still stolen. Just putting in a small credit while taking an entire article and not asking permission does not make things hunky dori.
Awsome work as always DOB, you show em whose boss, i swear we could end more wars with a well placed battalion of shadow peni.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 am
Translation from El Gráfico’s new note:
“An article from El Gráfico online, published on sep 20th, caused turmoil with cracked.com’s editors because of elements taken from one of their articles.
The article “6 truths about sex” cited the original source and linked to their site. We recognize intellectual property and we regret the negative reactions caused by the article. We offer our apologies to the editors and users of cracked.com”
Well.. sounds about right, although I don’t remember a direct link to cracked, only a text mention. Still, a victory I guess. That’s as good as a “sorry our bad” as we’re gonna get.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 am
[...] tomaron la molestia de alojar las imágenes en sus servidores y decidieron hacer el famoso hotlink. Obviamente la gente de Cracked se dió cuenta de esto y cambiaron las fotos (a forma de protesta) po…, las cuales aparecieron en todo su esplendo en el sitio de El [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
The apology is a lie!
It says that the original source was cited and that the article contained a link to the original source.
You can still check the article in google caché.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
El Universal just published a note apologizing about this “incident”
http://www.eluniversalgrafico.com.mx/notas/557359.html
November 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
When Lounsey messaged me on Facebook demanding that I read this article because it was hilarious my internal reaction was, “silly Sarah, ALL of Dan’s articles are hilarious.”
I’m not sure which on of us was wrong but somebody had to be because this article was something more than hilarious, like hilarity on steroids. Or crack. Crack sounds better than steroids.
What I’m trying to say is will you marry me, Dan O’Brien? I’ve been practicing my signature with your last name it looks good now so I think it’s time for us to take our relationship to the next level.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Whoa, my site got mentioned and not by me! Thanks, Casper guy.
To better explain about that, I asked David Wong via a private message if I could translate and post his article “7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making you Miserable” in my site, because I found it awesome and wanted to extend those words to my latin audience. David replied on the same day, stating first that the article was written by him but belongs to Cracked, and second that it was clear I serve a different target audience and thus I wouldn’t be taking traffic away from them.
Only AFTER getting the author’s consent, I put it up, naming him 3 times along the article, and linking Cracked twice. For a moment I thought maybe I went through too much protocol. This article proves that I didn’t, and so, I liked it twice as much. Nice one.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
For the love of literacy, people, read down the thread just a little bit and put one and one together. Do I seriously have to spell out the point I was making?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Vagabond invented the copyright license! Three cheers for him!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Actually, I’d say that accomplished exactly what Mr O’Brien would have wanted. It publicly embarrassed them and they retracted the story and issued an apology to cracked.com.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Grow Up. In the time it took someone to this this something positive could have been done. It was immature and accomplished little.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
edit: miss communication
November 21st, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Mr, Dresden,
1) Ever heard of Engrish? Automated translations lead to communications, especially when performed on a large scale, like an entire article or web page. Yes, software has come a long way, but it’ll never be as good as human translation.
2) As I said, that was to illustrate a point. Read further down the comment tree and you may find it.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
OWNED! Good on you guys for handling this with such a good sense of humour.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Vagabond…. its called babelfish.com
November 21st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
To illustrate a point, you know what I think? i can understand being annoyed by plagiarism, but do you understand it was translated to another language and made available to thousands of new readers that otherwise would not be enlightened by your very talented writing? information wants to be free. instead of getting worked up with law suits and waving more information around, why don’t you just charge them a percentage based on a reasonable rate and ask for a byline. I’m amazed that I’m the only one who thought of this! I should go around to other editorials and submit my unique, and totally original idea. Maybe I can even arrange the service and gain a cut of the profit…
November 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
http://www.eluniversalgrafico.com.mx/notas/557359.html
Hahaha:
“19:25 Una nota de El Gráfico online que se publicó el 20 de noviembre provocó molestias en los editores del sitio cracked.com por haber retomado elementos de uno de sus artículos.
El artículo “Las Seis Realidades sobre el Sexo” citó la fuente original y puso las ligas hacia su sitio. Reconocemos la propiedad intelectual y lamentamos las negativas reacciones que ocasionó la nota. Ofrecemos disculpas a los editores y a los usuarios de cracked.com.”
November 21st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Hillarious man!
I’m mexican and I actually read that newspaper every day, is an online supplement of http://www.eluniveral.com.mx which is a quite serious newspaper, the writter of the article is surely getting punished.
Good, Plagiarism is wrong, period. EVERYBODY SHOULD GET THAT F*CKIN CLEAR!, specially here where plagiarism sometimes appears like is a “not that bad offense”, like a table manner that can be easily dismissed.
Awesome! Love the dick picture although I’m not fond of nazi jokes. Just call me old fashioned even though I was born in the 80s but that still refers in my mind to a lot of suffering.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Cracked is teh awesome
November 21st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
whn i checked it, the article seemed to be gone cuz the internet robot couldnt find the server or some shit like that
November 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
To the guy who addressed me before: I didn’t know they didn’t give credit to cracked.
Anyway, I live in Mexico and kinda (just a little) surprises me that they did this. EL UNIVERSAL is a highly respected news site. I’d expect plagiarism like this from the local tabloids or EL NORTE (the local newspaper, which has gone downhill for a while), but not from them.
They issued an apology already. I think that the next step is to fire the numbnuts that plagiarized the article.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
lol they issued an appology on their site
November 21st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Don’t be stupid. Plagiarism is still plagiarism in any language. This is why when the publishing industry makes a translation of something, they call it that and give credit to the author and translator. Anyone who thinks the only thing gone wrong here is bandwidth thievery is fucked in the head and ethically bankrupt — and better yet — deserves to have something stolen from them so they can get some fucking empathy.
Stealing other people’s work is wrong. And don’t think it’s safe to have your opinion that, “This is the internet, etc.” You may be able to hide behind anonymity, but you carry that shit with you. We all carry our shit with us; it’s what makes assholes act like bigger assholes every day — because they’re too invested in what’s wrong to just give up on it and start doing their own work in this world. And it kills them eventually. They stop trusting people. They get shit on, because they carry bad karma. They lie to themselves to craft any story about how what happened wasn’t their fault. But it always stays on you. Til you fess up, apologize, and give up doing it.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
@chica plastica:
Okay, that’s a good point. A better point? Give credit to the people who made it.
I’m sure if they did, DOB wouldn’t have sent them the wang-spam.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I find this article ironic, since the idea was clearly ripped off an article by Ron Hilton from the editing room
http://www.the-editing-room.com/why-you-shouldnt-hotlink-images.html
clearly not what the Spanish website did to you guys, but at least publish the link with the article.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
That is not the case, chica plastica, for example “La Internet Apesta” ask for permission to translate cracked articles, why “El gráfico” does not? simple: they want the credit for another one job.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
i can understand being annoyed by plagiarism, but do you understand it was translated to another language and made available to thousands of new readers that otherwise would not be enlightened by your very talented writing? information wants to be free. instead of getting worked up with law suits and waving more information around, why don’t you just charge them a percentage based on a reasonable rate and ask for a byline. welcome to the new economy of the world, i hope you are able to enjoy it.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
PWNED!!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I was silly enough to set up a comments page in one of my websites a few years ago. However, I wanted to stop people using it because all the traffic was going to the comments software provider’s website instead of mine. I wrote politely and asked them to discontinue my comments page. They asked me to send my password; which I did.
They claimed it was the wrong password and refused to take it down. After several (increasingly) acrimonious email exchanges I used the same image trick. I uploaded an image covering a whole screen, bordered in bright red, with large bold print telling visitors exactly what had gone on.
That got the hosting company’s attention and they soon deleted my account. Sometimes, ya just gotta be creative with assholes!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I knew the internet was full of dicks, but plagiarizing a well known web site’s work? borderline stupidity
November 21st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
yeah, but doesn’t cracked steal ALL their images from whatever pops up in google’s image search?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Ah, yes….
Then I’m sure you’ll enjoy this article where Jason Scott Goatse’d Myspace…
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html
November 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
@glendoor- I see what you’re doing, and it’s not gonna work.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Those shitheads got what was coming to them. This was great.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Goaste would have been good, but you know what you REALLY should’ve done?
PINK UNICORNS.
With eye-meltingly bright green grass and fluffy white clouds in a perfect blue sky.
And rainbows. Gotta love the rainbows!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Which is why the internet hates e-baums world
November 21st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Agreed, plagerism is wrong, unless its three oh clock in the morning and you have a paper due by 7…
November 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Damn! I read El Grafico almost as often as I read Cracked but didnt got to see the article they stole from you.
good thing you got those fukers man!
I wish I had cheked El Grafico before reading this… that woulda been fukin hilarious!!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
This is why you don’t steal bandwidth from Cracked, while you steal from Cracked.
I also like the cheeky smile the girl makes as she wakes up and her eyes come into focus, to behold the mammoth wang of DOB.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
You’d think they’d have enough experience between the three amigos to write their own articles and creative enough to take their own pictures.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
That was pretty funny for a white boy, DOB.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Clap clap clap*
*That was me applauding, not talking about my VD
November 21st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Someone once said “Imitation is the best form of flattery.” Though it does suck that they completely took your work, that you clearly worked hard on. But, ultimately, they took your work because it is good. So good they had to steal it. Enjoy the triumph of this fact.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Ever get anything stolen by ebaums?
November 21st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Wow, you owned them completely. Good stuff. I hate plagiarists too.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Those assholes! And I thought only I would use the word “dickture”
November 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I’ll take them out via decapitation.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I don´t agree Lounsey. I think non-english speakers have the right to be informed on what´s going on and what it´s being said in other country´s media, as they give credit to original authors.
I can see this mexican guys did it that way. Using cracked images was their mistake, though.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
whether* even
November 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Read the first few damned responses before you reply. DO- I mean, Crackedman (or whatever we’re calling this vigilante) did what we all would do had we but the courage.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Wheter it was stolen or not….its hi-larious that there is a huge weiner shadow on their page and they don’t know it…
November 21st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Why are so many people getting worked up about the fact that there is one sentance that credits cracked.com here?
If somebody is interested in reading the article they should be reading it at this site, where is was originally posted, and other sites shouldn’t be using it (credited or uncredited) without the permission of the original author just to boost their traffic because they won’t write and research their own!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
“Arcticle” hah.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
PS. Is there any way to enforce something where anyone who posts a comment has to read previous comments?
November 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
@Jekelish
They credited cracked.com at some point in between when the article went up and when the images were altered. What would prompt them to make those changes, pre-image-altering? Were they contacted by cracked.com to give credit where credit is due? If not, I think that the much more likely scenario is that everyone who worked on this article overlooked that little part of the page. Not to say that it’s not well within your rights to change whatever images you want - they’re your images on your servers. But I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that, unless you contacted them and told them to change it, the credit to cracked.com was already there.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
anyone who would dare steal from DOB has a deathwish. might as well hang yourself- DOB will make your life a living hell otherwise.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Hey guys, I can see you don’t read spanish. You got on your screenshots that this mexican site gives credit to you: It reads: “de acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com”, wich means “according to cracked”.
You’ve goy it on your own screenshot.
You’re beeing a little bit unjust.
Even your article was a compilations of other’s article. cum on!
November 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
DOB, it sucks that this has to happen to you guys. Really. Cracked has become such a pathetically large part of my life nowadays that it angers me when it angers you. Give ‘em hell, man, and I’ll be glad to join the person-with-skills-vastly-superior-to-everyone-else’s-but-strangely-equal-to-yours-not-that-I’m-implying-nor-incriminating-you-in-any-way in fighting the good fight in any way I can.
Mostly through moral support. I’m a Cracked reader - I’m lazy.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
@jekelish
Apparently the credit was there before the images were altered though, according to the screenshot that was apparently taken before the images were altered. Again, not defending reproducing someone’s work without consent, but the evidence does point towards them having credited cracked before the images were altered.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Awesome thing you did. They did give you guys credit, but they still stole your bandwidth by stealing the images. Personally, they should have asked first.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
@ colin
You are right, the images might have been altered after the credit was given. Still, originally, when the article first went up on their website, they did not credit Cracked all day. I’m not sure when they added it in, but again…I can assure you, it wasn’t in there when I first saw the article pop up over there. I don’t speak Spanish, but even I would have noticed “cracked.com” in there.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
[...] conocer los detalles y reírse un buen rato, pueden leer aquí la crónica de Daniel O’Brien, autor del artículo original. Aunque El Gráfico dio de baja [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Ehm… I totally didn’t steal your articles… Seriously… Like stop looking at me like that! I’m innocent! No, really, I don’t steal articles, I just link to your articles because they’re awesome. I have however seen one of my favorite sites stealing one of your articles, I kinda felt like talking to them about it, but you know I don’t wanna bother anyone.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Just for everyone pointing to the “8:49 AM” in the screen shot…you should know, that was the time the first published the article. The same time stamp was on the article every single second from then until they took it down. That does not mean they could not go back and change it, because believe me, they DID. As the person who wrote the article that was stolen, I looked very carefully yesterday to see if they gave any credit to Cracked. As of yesterday evening, they had not. Just because it says 8:49 does not mean the “according to…” credit was in there the whole time.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Whether or not this was plagiarism, its easy to see, Shadow-Penises are awesome. Especially when they unexpectedly show up on a respectable news site.
I wish something like this could have been peppered throughout the debates!
November 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
@ EVERYONE:
IT CREDITS CRACKED IN THE FIRST SCREENSHOT IN THIS ARTICLE, PRE-PHOTOSHOPPING. STOP SAYING IT WASN’T THERE BEFORE. IT WAS. LOOK AT THE SCREENSHOT VERY CAREFULLY.
I’m sorry I had to yell. I just got a little frustrated. I’m not saying the pictures shouldn’t have been altered. I’m just saying that they didn’t add it after to cover their asses - they added it before to cover their asses.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Hey guys at cracked, I love ur site, and I’m also Mexican. Well I have something to say here.. I mean I don’t condone in any way plagiarism, however, I don’t think this was the case here, I mean assuming you DID read the article, and you DO know spanish [I didn't read all, just the beginning] and it says “according to the site cracked.com” …bla bla bla… so in my opinion, they were actually stupid to link the images directly, yes, but also credited you in the process, they were not stealing, they were [and I'm making a very ample assumption] quoting you… sorta. They did translate the whole thing, and as I said before, gave u the credit. Maybe not properly [e.g. making a link to the original article and proper credits at the end of the page], but they did. Now, I’m not defending them for being mexican, if they stole, shame on them, I’m actually trying to see this from another perspective. Did u contact them for an explanation? I dunno, if I were you, I’d check first, before going and making a fool out of them, and then myself with a rant of this magnitude.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
This is awesome. I wish I could’ve put dicks into the stuff stolen from me while attending college. Bastards. I did make sure they flunked the assignment though. HA! And Bob, for the record I have yet to steal something from the internet (I’m a nerdy do gooder so nyah) and I totally thing Dan rawks my socks for what he did. GO DAN GO!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Ok, it’s down now. I think they got it.
@To be fair: they must have added that to cover their asses before taking the article down, coz it surely wasn’t there this morning.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
To be fair, they gave credit to cracked. “de acuerdo al sitio cracked.com” means “according to the site cracked.com”
November 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
You guys are incredibly funny and I love your work. I run a blog and occasionally link to your articles and pictures because you guys do a fantastic job. I don’t like people who plagiarize or fail to give credit. Keep up the good work.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Croatin news site http://www.dnevnik.hr also stole two( that I know of) of your articles, one is 7 Music Trends Whose Return Must Be Stopped and the other is 6 Of Your Favorite Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat
November 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Since it was a Mexican website, maybe the captions should have been in Spanish… just a thought.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
DL, can the prelaw routine. The truth can’t possibly be libel, and the professor wasn’t “judging” or “punishing” the students in any prohibited way.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
christine77 - your a riot - and of course you must be smarter than everyone on the internet
choonee
November 21st, 2008 at 4:50 pm
This is classic and a perfect way to punish plagiarism because you are only altering your own work and it can only possibly punish the guilty.
It is unfortunate you equate it somewhat to Professor Young’s approach which is horribly unethical and he should have indeed been fired. It’s fine to fail people, which he had authority to do (and presumably an appeal system in the university), but all of the other things (copyright infringement, stealing, lying, software piracy, etc.) are outside his authority to judge or punish and puts himself and the university at risk of being sued for libel, as well as the actual risk of causing harm to innocent people.
If he limited it to only publishing names of those found guilty by the appropriate authorities (university or legal system, depending on the offense) and publicly available information, then he might have just cause.
There’s a reason vigilantism is unethical and in some cases illegal. In the comic books (Batman-esque indeed), the writer can be sure that it is only the guilty who pay. In reality, those who arrogantly claim their own right as judge, jury, and executioner can easily do more harm than good.
And that’s why the approach used in this article is perfect. It doesn’t accuse anyone of anything. It lets people voluntarily demonstrate their own guilt. Mucho kudos.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Good job guys. If we keep humiliating ‘em, maybe they’ll slow down, or give up, or at least offer us some entertainment.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
As of 3:58 Central Time, El Grafico has taken down the images and given credit to Cracked.com.
Link: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/557247.html
November 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Um, this isn’t funny. You’re all retarded.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hilarious. Now, I’m Mexican, but the kind of bullshit that these so called “journalists” are on is ridiculous. Cracked, I commend you for what you have done. Anyone that is found to be stealing content should be dealt with in a quick and humiliating manner.
Que gracioso. Soy Mexicano, pero el tipo de mierda que estos “periodistas” son es increible. A Cracked, les felicito por lo que han hecho. Cualquiera que sea encontrado robando contenido deberia ser castigado en una manera rapida y humillante.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I go to NIU (Where they publish the Star) and saw that. As soon as I saw the title, I called bullshit. Went inside, called the editor, and got put on hold for about 20 minutes….it’s a college newspaper, they aren’t that damn busy. Anyways, finally got them on the phone, told them it was stolen, and got a snippy “We’re aware of the situation, it’s been dealt with,” and was hung up on. Yes, that dumb bitch steals an article and you publish it, but I’M the asshole for pointing it out. I don’t care if they already had people calling in about it- that’s what you get for printing stolen shit. Assuming the girl was a student here, she should have been kicked the fuck out, and her editor fired.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Christine77…..
are you not looking at the original screenshot in the article, where it gives credit to cracked.com? it doesn’t link to the article directly unfortunately, but in the very first screen grab of the website that is posted on this article, it gives cracked.com credit. look closely.
with that said, if they’re going to leave the images hosted on cracked, cracked can change the images however they want.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Yes, James… im retarded and youre a moron in graduate school. Have a wonderful day
November 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hahaha, I go to NIU. A student wrote into the paper when he recognized your article, and when they looked into it they found out the “author” had stolen several of his stories. This is the high level of professional journalism I expect from my college newspaper.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
epic lulz
you never cease to disappoint me cracked good work!
November 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Christine,
The attribution was there originally.
I’m just saying.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
SpiderMan, the fair use factors are…factors, not “rules” or “elements”. They’re things to consider in making a fair use determination. It’s a balancing test. You can’t “break” these “rules”.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Spiderman:
I’ve said all along they needed permission. It’s fucked up. However, they did give credit. Which Dan said they didn’t. And that’s better than nothing.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Okay Mr. professional historian. Not at all offensive to steal someones work and take credit for it, even if the correct attribution was later thrown in , for kicks, or to keep DOB of their nuts, either way..
I think some Mexicans like shadow penis’….. im just saying
November 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Well, dnevnik.hr is citing cracked.com as a source, right next to the “authors” name. The silver lining is that its at least translated properly.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Hi guys, Im Mexican and I work for a another news paper, “El Grafico” its a really bad newspaper, with little credibility, by what I see, “El gráfico” has no awareness of the internet impact and publishes articles stolen assuming that the Mexican public is the only who read its web site.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Christine…. are you even looking at the original screen shot? The first image of the article? As of 11/20 at 8:49 am they attributed cracked.com in the third sentence. That was yesterday… the day article was published. Are you retarded? Does it occur to you to have evidence of what you’re talking about?
November 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
The retaliation would have been much better in Spanish.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
It is copyright infringement, even if you give credit, because you took the entire article and reproduced it without permission. That’s not even Fair Use. If they took a quote and linked back, alright, you might get by without permission, but taking the whole article (even translated) without permission while still giving credit can be considered infringement.
Even if you argue Fair Use, you’re wrong because:
1. They are using it for commerical use (breaks rule 1)
2. They used the entirety of the article (breaks rule 3)
And you could even argue it breaks rule 4, “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work” since Cracked could be making ad revenue instead so it could be construed as a loss.
There should be no question as to how this is against fair use.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Mr. O’Brien I salute this article, and whoever had the balls (and abs) to take a stand and fight back.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Morons can attend graduate school. And even a professional historian in training can come to the realization that the proper attribution was given a whole day later, after it was published.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Christine77…. they took it down because of Dan’s wonderful penis shadow
not because they got called out. I would imagine the images became a bit offensive even by Mexican standards. They shouldn’t have linked the articles straight from cracked like idiots… but they did give cracked credit for the material.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
<3
November 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
[...] La edici
November 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I guess you’re right Dan… you could have done much worse… but you should at least acknowledge in the article that they admitted they swiped the stuff from cracked.com. That stating it was cracked.com was not enough for them should be somewhere in the article. That’s all for my 2 cents.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
And James.. if what they did to begin with, was “okay” by giving Cracked the correct credit, then why did they take it down? Surely they didnt take it down because of all the new found traffic headinig their way, right? That would be stupid. Even banking on ads..neato.. lets take this article down!!! Come on James, they took it down because they got called out on their BS.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
You dont need to convince people that hard that creating even a paragraph of this shit takes effort….it DOES.
Nice job, and they took the article down haha
November 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Yes Christine77, I am a moron in graduate school who is well versed in the world of plagiarism, since I am training to become a professional historian and propper attribution of sources is something drilled into our heads from day one.
You’re qualified to call me a moron because you own a computer. Kudos!
November 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
James, when they were giving out a sense of humour, did they forget to tell you about it?
Cuz if it was me, I’d be pretty embarrassed about taking a comedic article so damn seriously.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
@James- “Defcon5?” You think this was Defcon5? I once burned a guy’s house down just for thinking about one of my articles without permission. This was far from Defcon5.
Also, I guess we COULD have sent an email, but it’s a Mexican site, and I don’t speak Spanish. Giant Shadowy Dicks, like love and music, is a language that everyone can understand.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
In fact, El Grafico attributed cracked.com in the third sentence:
“De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com”
I know that doesn’t free them of responsibility from asking permission, but it’s a little better than outright theft.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Cool! A very cleaver way to say “GOTCH YA!”.
Hey, bring your articles over my way…
http://www.articlegallery.net
November 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
James
Youre a moron.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hey Christine77, lead moron here….
Dan specifically calls out those who give neither attribution nor ask permission with the harshest of language. But I would imagine Dan would be more sympathetic with a website who at least attributed the article. A simple email would do the rest.
Oh and Christine77, it appears neither YOU nor DOB read the original Mexican article (as evidenced in the first MEXICAN SCREEN SHOT LISTED ABOVE), because the untampered article STILL ATTRIBUTED CRACKED.COM.
SO Christine77, let’s be nice instead of calling others morons.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
It’s the way of the world wide web now. Blogs are filled with other people’s information cataloged for whatever flavor they’re offering. (i.e.) A stripper blog will search for articles and pictures from other web sites and place it on their own. Realistically, how do you stop it?? If you use a picture from someone’s site — just make a link to that purloined site. Tell the world, okay, here it is, I didn’t do this, but here’s a link to the creator.
This will not happen though.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
That’s right DOB, It’s not cool to steal someone else’s hard work and then act like they own it.
I applaud this article and bow to his awesomeness
Now I’m gonna go download Metallica entire discography, you know, just for shit and giggles.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Yeah, the Northern Star is a bunch of retards with no journalistic integrity. I know a couple and they all have learning disabilities and no work ethic. They pretty much just glance at the associated press’ website and steal their articles for each publication of the newspaper so the fact that that ripped you off does not suprise me at all.
On a side note, the Northern Star hires non-journalism majors to write for them. Classy ain’t it?
November 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
This just made my month. “It’s the worlds Oldest Stripper! What’s HE doing here?”
I would have “laughed out loud”, if not for my deep fear that somewhere, somehow, for some reason, a leper is trying to borrow my drain cleaner and forget to return it. Because he/it/she would’ve heard me, you see.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I’m a mexican and I’m ashamed. That is one of the best selling shitty papers in Mexico City. Fuck ‘em.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
If you wanted to make them look bad to their audience, you could have added text in the language their readers could understand….
November 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
if there like me they steal peoples articles to make money. I have more then 300 sites and 500 domains and i go to small bloggers who can’t do anything about it and I steal there posts and comments and put it on my site. theyre not in google so they wont come back as dupe content. i just take it i don’t care they cant do anything then I (Gregor Butala) put it on my site.
so what? just be smart and take the images on to your host. i wont take from big sites cuz they can sue.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Even thought they gave credit…… they didnt want to. HEY MORONS IN COMMENT LAND. THE CREDIT WAS GIVEN WHEN DOB CLEARLY HANDED THEM THEIR ASSES!! WTF ARE YOU MISSING HERE???????
November 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
@bob:
i will continue to torrent music and movies, but will not attempt to sell any of it as my own! god damn people! read “Levels of Knowing and Existence”!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
IF YOU GOING TO MESS WITH PEOPLE AND PHOTOSHOP THOSE PICS AT LEAST MAKE IT ACCURATE.. HITLERS HORSE DIDNT WEAR A LOW CUT DRESS AT THE WEDDING DANG, DO YOUR HOMEWORK
November 21st, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Yeah, they didn’t ask permission… but still, was such a draconian response needed, especially since they DID give where they got the article from? Couldn’t have cracked just sent them an email rather than going defcon 5? I dunno…. I would agree with their measures had they not attributed cracked.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I just wanted to say I am a part time radio DJ in Green Bay. I do use cracked articles on air, however, I do mention I got it from Cracked.com every time. Believe me, I WISH I was as creative and intelligent as your staff. I hope since I am giving credit, that the folks at Cracked are kosher with that.
I am a huge fan of the site and have to say the Hitler pick is awesome!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I agree with the outrage!
But I have to wonder how many of you all so moral
self-rightesters steal artist’s content.
The difference is not so great
Condemn all thievery
November 21st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Hey man, they gave u credit and think it this way: they translated your article to the ppl who cant read english, and they gave u free advertising to the whole latin world,
November 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
[...] This is Why You Don’t Steal from Cracked [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
i love how people will applaud this article, yet still download movies off bittorent and music off limewire.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Even though they gave credit, they didn’t ask permission, they still hotlinked the images, and they STILL made advertising revenue and sales from posting a translation of the article directly on the website.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Copyright law states that you not only have to credit or attribute the article, but if you are going to use the whole damn thing, you have to get permission from the author. Which they obviously didn’t.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Good one.
You can steal from TribalWar.com under the pretense that other people steal from you.
You’re making America proud.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Dan, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in the second paragraph they specifically attributed CRACKED.com. Now you kinda just look like a hasty dick.
http://www.4shared.com/file/72504485/acb54afa/Las_6_realidades_cientficas_sobre_el_sexo_-_El_Universal_-_El_Grfico_1227276283260.html?cau2=403tNull
November 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Its only plagiarism if they actually claim the work is their own if at any point they say it was yours or from another site then its not plagiarism anymore you can of course still say hey take it down but the downside is US laws only apply in US since the site is Mexican I doubt they care two shits about the fact they are infringing your works or the fact that US laws says that’s a no no (look to the pirate bay for further fuck off and die your laws don’t apply to us letters).
With all that said I would like to say of course I believe the puppy holding the gun happened its a damn puppy holding a gun they are evil evil creatures that only use their cuteness to get close so they can pop a cap in your ass.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Dear God. That is hilarious.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
This is kinda cool and I LOLD really hard… But is it plagiarism? I mean, they were pointing out at their article that this was actually written by cracked…
November 21st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Goddamn Mexicans, always coming over and stealing American words.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Dan O’fuckingBrian. You are a man.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Put up Goatse pictures or STFU!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hey, DOB, I live some-what near a slaughter house. I’m not saying I’ll be helping with any bad behavior, but, I bet the stealing would stop if they had a few thousand hog cocks over-nighted to them. just saying…….
November 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Shoots ,your protective stuff is friggin hilarious,you guys and gals flat out rock!!!I liked cracked when I was a kid (I’m 53) butthis might be as good as it gets,I hope not,keep up the great work.Thank you for what might be the best humor I see today.Aloha
November 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Yes! Cracked kicked el grafico’s ass! but still …it’s not like it’s going to calm this endless hunger to piledrive them headfirst unto a chicken.
Can’t we just….bash their skulls in with a barb wired steel chair at least …or something?!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hey, I haven’t read the comments yet, so I wouldn’t know if this has been pointed out like 15 times or not, but they did credit you, it totally says so at the start.
Seriously, people…at least READ the comments before scrawling one yourself. Not only has this been said over and over and over, but it’s been pointed out (over and over and over) that it wasn’t added until a full day AFTER it was originally put up (which means it was just a sorry attempt to cover their asses).
November 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
nice DOB! though personally I’d have been more blunt and just photoshopped over all images a translation of ” This site stole its articles, and sucks “
November 21st, 2008 at 2:26 pm
that is awesome. not that you got bit, but what you did. niiiiice
November 21st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Kwame you bastard… you made me laugh.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I love you!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
As a content writer, I’ve had my stuff copied all the time, even by fuckers signing my article like it was theirs. But they are mostly kids with blogs. Not a fucking news source.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
kudos to you my man and a million internets!! that is just incredible and i hope it showed those bastards a lesson, keep up the amazing work.
greetings from México
November 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
You should feel honored people want to steal your crap.
Also, should’ve retaliated in Spanish- great penis shadow.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
hahaha Oh man, i loved this article. so good
November 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
good for you, DOB
November 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
This is wonderful.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Well, the cowards took it down.
This sure has been fun.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’m sorry, on behalf of the dickheads at my school’s newpaper, about the Northern Star’s ripping off.
If it makes you feel better, no one reads it.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
As a content writer, I’ve had my stuff copied all the time, even by fuckers signing my article like it was theirs. But they are mostly kids with blogs. Not a fucking news source.
This is a newspaper. Unfortunately, I see this all the time in local internet tabloids in Argentina. They add an “According to x.com”, and then proceed to summarize the article. At least once a day, I see an example.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
The article has been taken down now…
Plaigarism sucks, hence why you can’t do it in uni
November 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Wow, I’m surprised you didn’t watermark your modified images so people go back to the real source.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Wow, I am a mexican living in Mexico City and a constant reader of your site and i feel obligated to apologize for these idiots!!! Well, you did well by altering the photos, they made everything even more hillarious! Although putting the captions in spanish would’ve made them really learn their lesson.
If it happens again let me know and i will gladly help you out with the spanish captions!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
[...] El Universal plagia y lo pwnean: Algún periodista creativo tomo un articulo “prestado” y se le olvido subir las imágenes del articulo a otro servidor. Y cuando los afectados se dieron cuenta… Jajajaja… [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
LMAO, the same thing used to happen to me when I ran an gallery on my now defunct fansite. I did a similar thing, replacing the images with comments about plagerizing. Oddly, few of these people actually took their images down.
Kudos to you!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
So what if credit is given but permission isn’t asked?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
oooh soo funny!! I hate plagerism, there’s nothing worse than pouring everything into something just to have it ripped off by some do nothing bitch. well done. (not that this was you or anything)
November 21st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Looks like they took the article down. I keep getting “404 Not Found” now
November 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Those guys got OWNED
November 21st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Dan ‘O is the most prolific wordsmith of all time. I dare someone to challenge me on that claim.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
hey, The Mexican,
there is something else than credit.
credits!!!! (nerd for money)
pay the fuck up!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
This is funny. Maybe better than the original article that they “borrowed.”
November 21st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hotlinking aside, they did credit you with the article.
[...] De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com, los siguientes son las 6 verdades científicas sobre el sexo. [...]
According to site cracked.com the following are six truths about sex.
Maybe you should invest in some Spanish lessons. The altered images are still funny
November 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
When are you guys at cracked gonna learn? People steal from you because you people are just that damn funny. Oh, totally awesome photoshop work btw.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
let down the hammer of THOR on their asses!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hey Nelson,
I think you missed it
(It’s explained a little bit better in this article.)
November 21st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
haha thats mad funny about the dick shadows
November 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
DOB is a god among men. And those pictures are still up. Hilarious.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Damn good show!!!!. And even if they did credit you… screw them for being lazy and not coming up with their own stuff. I know its in pesos but they still are paying people to do work over there, right?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
haha if you go to the very bottom to where it says “codigo de etica” (ethics code), look at what it says…
2. HONESTY
The readers of “the Universal one” have the guarantee of which the news that are published in the pages of the newspaper are impartial and does not animate another aim more to them than the public interest.
Based on the previous thing,
The journalists of “the Universal one” do not incur plagiarism of works carried out by colleagues or other professionals. The readers can trust that the published thing in the newspaper is work of the author, and in case of not being thus, specific in the body of the same.
In their mission to generate the news, the journalists of “the Universal one” do not resort to deceits that imply to supplant or to pretend to be another person, as well as either the use of recorders or hidden cameras, by virtue of which it mine seriously the credibility and confidence in the newspaper.
you should sue.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
someone just wrote an article about how to handle plagiarizers in this exact same manner, it was on the frontpage of digg.
its not plagiarism, but cracked, are you passing off others ideas as your own?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
As of 12:00pm CST the article in question is still up and unchanged.
And i am laughing my ass off.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
That was an awesome article. I would love to see the candid camera shot of the plagiarists when they see the, um, updated imagery. Good job on catching them and putting them in their place!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
You are such idiots. El Grafico totally and completely CREDITED YOU (Cracked.com) for the article.
“De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com, los…” translates to ‘According to cracked.com, the…’ and is found on the second paragraph.
Instead of taking action against them, you should pay attention better to what they say.
You should have paid attention to your Spanish classes in high school, DUMBASS!!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
what about goatse.cx that usually gets peoples attention.
http://www.goatse.cx
November 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I have one thing to say to those guys!
“Chupe Mantequilla de mi culo!”
“Pendejos!”
Ahh that’s all I learned from taking Spanish 2 and reading that cracked article LOL
November 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
DOB, you truly are my hero right now. Plagiarism is stupid, dirty, and just dispicable, and you treated those idiots like they should have been. Way to go, this made Cracked so much better to read. Not that you did it, or anything…
November 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
you (or someone like you, but not you by any means) are f… hysterical.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
God DAMN it makes me hot when you wave your dick around, DOB. (Next time be sure to post sweaty, angry, shirtless pictures of yourself to go along with the text)
The plagiarism shit is one of the many reasons I don’t perform or write anymore. I guess I was too personally attached to my work. Thank you for having the energy to fight the good fight.
Oh, and salomejones sounds really pissed at you. You’re not still fucking his mom, are you?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
That is fan-fucking-tastic.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
AtxAxLoss wheres your “local area”?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Great idea, but you’ve sorta chickened out on the execution. Why didn’t you put up something like ‘El Grafico would like to say ‘MUERTE AL PRESIDENTE” or “All our readers are retarded” (in Spanish, obviously) or something else that would really embarrass the paper if read by Mexicans. Why not cause a stir here?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I love you and will never ever steal one of your articles. Instead, I send out mass emails with your awesome links in them
Kisses- call me baby
November 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Ironically, I heard that Chicks Dig Jocks myth busted on a popular radio station in my area before I read it on Cracked, It might’ve been that I read the article later in the day, but I’m pretty sure it was a couple of days later.
I obviously don’t think Cracked is snooping around my local area, thieving marginally interesting factoids to later reproduce in greater detail in an article — it’s obviously a case of two separate works based on the same item — but I thought it was interesting.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
raynauld, we all know you love penis, and Hollandisch is NOT a word!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
You had me laughing all the way through.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
OK so the Grafico cited the source, but it’s still a slap in the face.
Here @ KDWB there is no mention of Cracked.com anywhere!
What can be done about this?
I’m local I’ll call the station!
http://kdwb.com/pages/dave.html?feed=234521&article=4610897
November 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Again, the “according to Cracked” bit was not there yesterday, when the transgression first took place. Clearly, it was added today for fear of the further wrath of DOB.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Duuuude don’t link to them!!! You’re just creating them more revenue!!! (And most likely the traffic they get, as CRACKED IS AMAZING AND EVERYONE READS IT
November 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Keep it up cracked. This was hilarious.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Very funny, and great idea…however they are just making more money because Daniel O’Brien pulled this “trick” on them. Of course the site is still up, El Grafico is rolling in the dough as a result of all the site traffic DOB gave them!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
For some reason the dick shadow is gone but all the rest of the photoshopped pics are still there. I’m thinking this really calls for a Spanish translation.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I think is good that you teach them a lesson, but they did credit you the article. They didn’t said they did the research, they specifically said that it was from your site, so maybe you shouldn’t be so harsh….
November 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
[...] Aquí está el link a la página de Cracked.com y aquí el link al articulo que El Gráfico, un periodico de El Universal, se plagio. [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Lo siento.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I wrote this article and did all the Photoshoppery!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
lol, you stupids, “De acuerdo con CRACKED.COM…” doesn’t mean in agreement, it means, acording to…
lol, stupid people is stupid.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Yeah, i’m from Holland to (whoohoo!) but I love second world war, penis and threatening jokes as much as anyone who loves those jokes. Just wanted to let it be known that not everyody in Hollandia thinks like kooperg does.
I know how you Americans can be so generalising. (probably spelled that wrong, but Hollandisch people dont care about such little things. We just own and stuff. And brought slavery.)
November 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Someone actually stole one of my myspace blogs once (back before I said fuck you to that), even knowing that we had tons of mutual friends. It was nice because it took all of about 5 minutes to get back to me. So I set her house on fire.
I’m writing this from jail.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
hahaha its 12:25 and the pictures at elgrafico are still up, I wonder how long will it be until they notice
I LOVE YOU DOB!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Here’s another PRIME example of local top 40 douchery!
http://kdwb.com/pages/dave.html?feed=234521&article=4610897
anyone got any good ideas, to mess with a radio station?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I was thinking the same thing, serial. Captions and such need to be in Spanish. At least for the refuse-to-learn-English speaking people in the U.S.A.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Awesome! The idiots haven’t even noticed.
I’m all in for the spanish texts in the pictures. I would gladly help.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I think i can sum this article up with three words: Bad. Ass. …Muffins.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
You know, it would have been much more effective if you’d done it in spanish, pinhead.
Seriously, leave the pwnage to the masters. You’re a funny-list site. Stick with dreaming of the day that John Stewart discovers your brilliant satire and saves you from your webzine hell.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Cracked.com theft is really popular:
http://kdwb.com/pages/dave.html?feed=234521&article=4610897
Local radio station stole the same article for an On Air segment.
No way to add dick shadows on the radio.. is there?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I always knew cracked were bad-asses, and i love you for it!
Great article… and death to plagiarists!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hey, great article on people who steal other’s articles. I have the same problem on my website. I think I will take this one and post it as my own on my site.
Thanks!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Great way to deal with those plagiarizers, but the text in those pictures is just too mild. A big fat “chinga tu madre!!” across the pictures would have worked a lot better.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Beyond AWESOME.
I love it.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I love this.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
It’s great what you’ve done with all these Universal and Grafico stuff. Congratulations.
I used to work in other major newspaper in Mexico, the Reforma, and this is why we always thaught that El Universal is a smaller newspaper.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I love you, DOB.
Also, I really want to kick some people in the teeth after reading this article. How lazy, stupid and lacking in integrity do you have to be to steal content (not to mention linking direct back to the original pictures)? Jesus.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Great article, good to punish those that steal.
However, picking Nazi’s and Hitlers and the stuff about the index finger is really, REALLY pushing it too far. that stuff is just not done. Where I live (Holland), there are far greater (prison) punishments for those things as there is for stealing a bullshit article (admit it!).
And that’s good, cause even if people steal your stuff, you DO NOT THREATEN their daughters index finger, nor do you remind people of Nazi’s, hitler, holocaust, dicks or any other such things. I am really not sure where you got that from, did your mother hit you when you where a small boy? Was she a Nazi with a dick? Would you like to talk about it, maybe?
lmao!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
DOB is the best there is. Become his fan.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Haha, that Index finger pic is awesome.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Native spanish speaker here:
“De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com, los siguientes son las 6 verdades científicas sobre el sexo.”
In that sentence, “De acuerdo con…” doesn’t mean “in agreement with”, but “according to”.
So, in other words, they aren’t saying they have some kind of agreement with Cracked.com to publish the article.
Anyway, they (El Gráfico) should have given proper credit, with a link to cracked.com and a link to the original article. That’s the least you have to do when translating some material on the Internet.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Re:Poncho. (assuming SW means shareware)
No it’s not. It’d be the same shit if I were to, say, download “La Vida Loca” and then put it back up on the internet as was my own work without giving Mr. Martin the credit that he’s due for crafting one of the most moving pieces ever written about the transient nature of love.
As is, it’s just regular old fashioned stealing.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I say have a Plagiarism of the week forum for a nice public flogging! Linking directly to their images, of course!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
If only those texts were in Spanish, the pwnage would be ABSOLUTE.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Also, if need help translating anything to Spanish, you can email me.
Something like “Apparently you can’t attach a toe of your daughter to an email which makes the cutting of it very ironical”.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
It’s ironic that we get an article about people stealing articles when the comments section is always filled with assholes screaming about how much Cracked sucks now and how “This is the worst shit that Cracked has produced. You guys suck so hard and I hate you”.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Where are lemon party and Goatese?!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] desde su site. Los genios cambiaron entonces las imágenes en su servidor y bueno.. la cosa quedo así. Alan /// 21.11.2008 @ 12:31 PM Categorias: Humor. Tags: [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
LOL
El Universal is the most important newspaper un Mexico.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx
November 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
What would a total twist of ironic fate is if some of those stealing sites stole this article… not that I want any article stolen from cracked. But still.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
DOB: I will gladly translate any offensive content that you require into Spanish.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
I joined this site JUST because of this article… this was funny as hell! That would piss me off too people passing off your work as theirs. Keep on with the internet vigilance… justice must be served… one photoshopped cockslap at a time..
November 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Nice! Way to go cracked. I have already taken screenshots for evidence.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am
You (and by “you” i mean whoever did the photoshopping) had every right to do that. Serves those bastards right. I salute you DOB.
PS. As of 11:51 a.m. the photoshopped images are still on the site.
PPS. I think Prof. Young had every right (even if i haven’t read what those actual rights may or may not be) to do what he did. I think test scores and if a student was ever caught cheating/plagarising shoudl be public. Because we all know that those same liars are the ones who fluff their resumes’ and possibly take jobs away from student who earned it. (Full disclosure: That never happened to me, but I know people who it did.)
November 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am
If you don;t have illegal sw on your PC, then you can talk about plagiarism.. it’s the same shit!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am
This was outstanding.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am
“Hold a Gun”
Hole a dun? Whatever does that mean?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:51 am
Although i have no problem with informationtheft, i also have no problem with this excellent form of payback.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:51 am
My dog can hole a dun like that for real! No photoshop necessary!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
I just wish you had written the comments in Spanish as it is a Mexican speaking publication. though I am sure that someone over there understands English it lacks the bite that it could have. Anyways keep up the work I love the lists cracked produces
November 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Yeah and they stole my hub caps too!
Great article.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
i actually think it’s funny that one of the articles they stole is one on inventors who stole other inventors’ ideas.
though i really hope this doesn’t mean they’ll start comparing themselves to Thomas Edison anytime soon.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
haha
November 21st, 2008 at 11:45 am
It would have been funny if they had stolen something that was actually funny. Oh wait, this is Cracked.com
November 21st, 2008 at 11:45 am
There’s a radio station here in Boise that will read a list directly off your website at least once a week and not give any inkling of credit.
I’ll get the call letters and station number and send y’all an email because it fucking pisses me off to hear talentless ass ponies on the radio, much less when they rip off real writers.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:45 am
i love you, DOB. you really do keep your shit real.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Sadly I’ve actually witnessed this. A couple days ago I was listening to a morning radio show as the host read nearly verbatum your article about the worst places to get caught having sex. It would be forgivable if they cited the source, however instead she said “I don’t know where I got this from…” Oh come on!
I really appreciate the effort that goes into researching this material. Many of the things I read here qualify as legitimate journalism (with amusing commentary). It’s depressing how common it is.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Cracked are amateurs. My team and I use images that are hundreds to thousands of times more offensive to help get the message across. Thieves won’t learn unless they get thousands of angry emails from future ex-customers.
Goatse is for first timers. Repeat offenders get a sensory barrage Ogrish would be jealous of.
Host your own f’ing pictures.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
There is nothing wrong with cheating. I like to call it outcome assurance.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
BTW, the Northern Star fired the writer who plagiarized your work.
http://www.northernstar.info/article.php?id=4957
November 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
The Northern Star did fire the staff write that stole the article soon after because devoted cracked.com reader like me sent letters to the editors telling them that the article was stolen. I, myself sent one that very day of the article, because I did want the writer to get away with stealing your work.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
This has got to be one of the funniest things I saw this entire week!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
INTERNET JUSTICE!
HUZZAH!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am
First, great article! The photoshopped “revenge” photos were a hoot!
Second, I agree with DieProfessorLoyeYoung who stated correctly that the prof violated FERPA. As one who works in higher education administration, I can tell you nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see a high-and-mighty proFESsor being given a swift kick in the ass back to reality.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
It’s still plagiarism if it’s a word by word, structure by structure and even image by image copy of the original article. Just saying “according to cracked.com” doesn’t suffice. Plagiarism occurs if you don’t make it expressly clear that this article is purely the work of another person, and not just make passing reference that you “happened” to find this information on some random site. At the very least, contact cracked.com, get permission to host and translate the article, and I’m sure they would have been happy with that. But no, these assholes just decided to straight up copy and paste.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Apparently they’re not the only ones, although this one doesn’t link to the images:
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/VidayEstilo/20112008/341316.aspx
November 21st, 2008 at 11:30 am
You guys really should nail uphaa.com…
November 21st, 2008 at 11:27 am
Tis a shame you had to deface arrested development
But kudos for exacting revenge!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Dude, you gotta put way more offensive shit than that on their site. Their audience doesn’t even speak English.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
You dissapoint me Dan
we should have killed those fuckers instead…
but oh well…i suppose i just have a much more
“someone sat in my chair…i’ll just blow up the whole city block”
sort of mentality…mwahahahah.
I can still bomb guadalajara if you just say the word DOB ….
*itchy fingers aching for red buttons*
*sadistic look in eyes*
November 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
looks like they restored the original images. i am all for vigilante justice, but i think they missed the point here. you may have to go down there and personally explain that you were not just suggesting that they not use your site to host images to them…
somehow, your lesson, much as i love it, did not stick.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
I for one am am glad that the Idiot Young was fired for violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and I hope is prosecuted to full extent of the law and sued into oblivion by the parents. Plus he had NO right to play IP cop, judge, and/or executioner.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
[slow triumphant clapping]
Kudos.
Stay classy Cracked!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Not sure if it makes you feel any better, but they did give you credit. The first paragraph as translated by Google:
“Fortunately scientists are working tirelessly to reveal the truth about sex and check the myths acquired on the subject. De acuerdo con el sitio cracked.com, los siguientes son las 6 verdades científicas sobre el sexo. According to the website cracked.com, the following are the 6 scientific truths about sex. “
November 21st, 2008 at 11:18 am
That’s like kicking the shit out of plagerists, and then beating the shit out of them with a baseball bat with a rusty nail hammered though the end of it. Well, maybe not like that, but still pretty badass. Good job Cracked!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
This is freaking awesome! I’ve seen stuff like this before, but this certainly takes the cake.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Daniel, you (or someone like you) have outdone yourself with this internet bitch slap. Kudos my friend your (or someone like you) mastery of internet bad assery has been re-affirmed. My sides hurt from laughing.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi guys!! I recommend you 18+ wealthy dating club ===M E E T R I C H. C OM=== to catch hot babes, rich and sexy singles for hotter love, more pleasure, and more fantasy. lol…I’ve been there for weeks. That’s hot!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:11 am
You guys should put those changed images in Spanish! I can’t translate because I suck at Espanol, but perhaps Google could help out?
translate.google.com
There’s a good chance readers of El Grafico don’t really get the message!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am
Heh, would have been a better idea to goatsed them. Google images has great pictures..
November 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
bravo, DOB. brav-thefuck-o.
keep shit real.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am
10:02 CST
first one’s still up as of now. wonder if they get the pictures…
i thought you were just joking about the pictures, DOB, i didnt know you ACTUALLY changed them.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
One of the funiest things I’ve read for *ages*.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
I fucking love you guys forever and eternity plus one. This is brilliant.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am
[...] siguen ahí; si las cambian, aquí explican el plagio y tiuenen capturas de pantalla (en inglés) http://www.cracked.com/blog/this-is-why-you-dont-steal-from-cracked/ Pwned! sin comentarios en: tecnología, internet karma: 8 etiquetas: plagio, cracked, [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am
I’m sure the image for #1 has what looks like a pixelated swastika in the bottom right hand corner. Excellent work
@tank: Yes, goatse!!! A missed opportunity if there ever was one.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
The claim that “the article is taken in accordance with cracked” is without a doubt false. If the article was given for publication, DOB wouldn’t have lost his shit over it.
So not only are they plagiarizing, they are lying about it too…
November 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
actually, most people in Mexico with an internet connection will understand the english captions or at least the word cock.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:52 am
Great job. You might have wanted to put the picture text up in Spanish, though.
Lemme know, and I’ll write something up.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:43 am
you had an oppurtunity like this…AND YOU DIDN’T POST A GOATSE???
What’s wrong with you, man??
Other than that, good work! The article is still up as of 9:43 CST.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
Loved it, I hate plagerism, it pisses me off to no end when I see it everywhere, Internet, Real life, Books, movies, Its fucking everywhere! just when people think that the source they got it from was so unpopluar, no one even knows about it, they think they can take what gold they have and use it as their own!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
Awesome, and absolutely right!!! Well done, sir, I say to thee. I know where I’m going should I ever need legal defense. So, Cheeseman, I clicked the link that went to your blog, but did you ever get your reparations from “the man”?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:39 am
They have this written at the top:
“Fortunately scientists are working tirelessly to reveal the truth about sex and check the myths acquired on the subject. According to the website cracked.com, the following are the 6 scientific truths about sex.”
Or something similar. Dunno how long that’s been there, they’re still a a bunch of arseclowns though, I’ve had some of my photography work blatantly stolen before so I know what it’s like for someone to just jack your shit and claim it as their own, it’s infuriating.
Loving the subtle revenge though.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:36 am
congrats guys. you don’t need to take that bullshit.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:36 am
11 AM, it’s still up.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:36 am
Hypocritically at the bottom of the article, you can find this
Código de Ética (ETHICS CODE)
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/disenio/directorios08/codigo.html
……
2. HONESTIDAD
Los periodistas de “El Universal” no incurren en plagio de trabajos realizados por colegas u otros profesionales. Los lectores pueden confiar en que lo publicado en el periódico es trabajo del autor, y en caso de no ser así, se especifica en el cuerpo del mismo.
En su misión de generar noticias, los periodistas de “El Universal” no recurren a engaños que impliquen suplantar o fingir ser otra persona, así como tampoco el uso de grabadoras o cámaras escondidas, en virtud de que ello mina seriamente la credibilidad y confianza en el diario.
Los periodistas de “El Universal” no graban declaraciones sin consentimiento expreso del entrevistado.
It basically says that the journalists from el Universal do not plagiarize other people’s articles, and that the reader can trust that these are originally written by el universal (grafico) journalists.
Yeah Right !!!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am
This is GREAT! Great retribution, great article - a man after my own heart! uh, if it had been YOU of course. since we have no idea who could have actually been responsible for these ideas of retribution, we can only assume you maybe got them from somewhere else?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
I admire your subtlety. If it was me, I would have uploaded the correct images on Cracked with different names, then changed every last picture to goatse.
In all honesty though, I hate sites that do this. It’s bad enough jsut taking credit for it, but a website actually generating revenue from the traffic gained by the article is just taking the piss.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Nicely done! They deserve even worse.
You guys rule!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hey!!!
Hilarious and super-creative idea there… but… How most spanish-speaking readers are going to figure out all your attempts if the can not understand what your trying to say?? I bet most of them will see a sort of nonsense pictures with random english quotes on them???
I can give you a hand with translations and keeping kicking this guys nuts!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:23 am
I’m sure it completely blows that assholes steal your articles, but doesn’t it kind of rock that other people want to steal your articles. I write tickets and arrest people for a living, and it rocks for me that other people want to kill me because I, personally, rock.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:21 am
I can tell ya, the bit about “in agreement with Cracked.com” was most definitely not up there last night. It seems they are cowering in fear of the mighty DOB. To paraphrase Cameron Frye, “DOB, you’re my hero.”
November 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
it is still up! I just used their email form to send it to someone, too…you guys are my gods today!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
Bablefish translates part of their text as:
“In agreement with the cracked.com site, the following are the 6 scientific truths on sex.”
Which makes the pictures even funnier! I assume that’s a late addition…?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:13 am
DOB thank you for taking rage to the next level. I nominate you sheriff in the Wild West that is the internet- star badge and all! Start laying down the rules or laying a smack down— either or works.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
Atta boy!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:11 am
Every article I read of yours makes you even more my biggest hero. :’) I admire you so very much. That website really did a shitty job of translating, though. The humor’s gone. (Excepting the images, which still make me pee my pants in hysteria.)
November 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
I’m with you, Dan. My dog is good with his hands. I’ve never tried to train him on a pistol, but I’ll work on it. Just let me know the target and we’ll be there.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
I’m from Mexico. Unfortunately here, many people still are stupid enough to think NO ONE EVER will notice when they steal something from the internet ( In fact some people are stupid enough to steal works ranked on top by Google searches).
I’m sure this article was “written” by a climbing junior motherfucker who impressed his boss with “his article” so he could get his boss approval. -Keep up the good work Juanito! Damn you’re good!
I hope he and people like him shit pineapples during a whole year (and rabid baboons during hollidays)
November 21st, 2008 at 10:03 am
A brilliant way to exact revenge, and just subtle enough not to notice at first glance. At least to begin with.
I must steal this idea!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am
DOB, very nice article, and as a creative writer I definitely understand where you’re coming from. If you’re willing, (and the comments section is probably not the best place to ask this, but oh well), I’d love to interview you on my totally un-plagarized radio show to talk about this. Please email me if interested. In any event, keep up the good work, DOB! Tell whatever sexy evil genius is responsible for the photoshopping that he’s brilliant.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
This was a chilango’s work, the EL GRAFICO copy thing. Those fucking bastards from the capital (of Mexico, we call them chilangos) think they’re the big deal when they really are just a buch of dickheads who feel superior from the rest of the countr. We, the people from north of the country, usually feel ashamed of them.
And now we have a bigger reason for doing it.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:38 am
It wouldn’t have been as funny, but it would have got the message across. I’m not always one for humour. I leave hilarious revenge to the Joker.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:37 am
the spanish site in question gives credit to “el sitio cracked.com” right at the top. dont know when that was added.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:37 am
I wonder if they (el graphico) just took the test and filtered it through babelfish of google translate. that would be the icing on the cake. Wait, they probably did.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:34 am
You just reminded me that I never got my t-shirt from the radio station. Consider my indignation renewed. I hope they come through this time because with this much rage being summoned I’m pretty much going to have to punch a baby to level out if I don’t get it.
Or maybe I was going to punch a baby anyway. It doesn’t change my point.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am
All I have to say is “Amen!!”
November 21st, 2008 at 9:32 am
I must admit…I did take one of your articles DOB…the labor day one. But I gave you credit and linked the website for others to come see and read. I love this website and check back religiously (if i had a religion…crack would probably be involved). Anyway, I too am a professor and understand the severity of cheating. Kudos for your good work…and dick jokes.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
In the last image you should put this text in spanish, exact translate of what you said:
“NUNCA es una buena idea plagiar el trabajo de alguien más. Pero si lo haces, a lo menos ten el sentido comun de no linkear las imagenes directamente
(come mierda)”
and i still can watch el grafico, jajajaja epic fail!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Bravo Cracked, they can go to hell….
November 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am
Goaste wouldn’t have been as hilarious. Some of those photoshops are really fun to the ay (funny).
November 21st, 2008 at 9:20 am
EASTSIDEEEE!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Kudos, DOB, and all Cracked staff at frothing up into an implacable rage for having your shit ripped off.
If there is any way for my own inimitable furor to help, let me know.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:18 am
Haha. I’m glad you were able to get those grafico guys way better than you got my school newspaper. You guys do work hard on this shit, and it’s sad to see people profit from your hard work.
And thank god Nazis will always be hilarious.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:17 am
104.5 FM’s morning show makes it a daily part of their show to read an article from here, and I have never once heard them give you guys credit for it. I called them one day when they had their “Mad as Hell day” call in. They asked why I was mad as hell, I told them it was because they never give Cracked.com any credit for their articles, and they hung up on me.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Love it
November 21st, 2008 at 9:15 am
Krasno, he doesn’t need to hack them. Just edit the pictures on the Cracked server that the idiots are using into something less friendly.
DOB, you didn’t go far enough. Seriously, dude, Those pictures could be more effective if replaced with, let’s say, Goatse?
November 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Don’t make DOB angry. . . You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:08 am
I wish Teddy Roosevelt was still alive so he could reach thru the internet and strangle thieves with his neck hand of doom. Until then, great job D.O.B.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
I will never doubt your Spider-Man credentials again DOB.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Copyright protection ftw!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
If this article is ever made into a movie, it will be directed by Michael Bay.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:48 am
You should hack them so their main page displays the same picture than lemonparty
That’ll teach them
November 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am
Holy crap!! El Gráfico still has those images (that you had nothing to do with) on their website, which I would kill for if it ever went to print.
Kudos DOB! Cracked is not to be messed with. And if anyone ever tells you that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, please cram that flattery right up their friendly place.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:28 am
Will there be untold retribution if I find a way to use the phrase dickture in evry day conversation?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:22 am
Good for you.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:18 am
WESTSIIIIIIIIDE!!!