Update #2

[yendi]

Plagiarist John M Kahane (yeah, I damned well expect future Google searches on his name to also turn up the word "Plagiarist," because that's what he is) also swiped at least two reviews from dlscanlon (including the first Kage Baker book) one from Tom Knapp (The Light Fantastic). Basically, it looks like he's just pilfering Rambles for all his content.

Comments

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

Just disgusting.

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Grr.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I assume you are building a case and will contact his ISP and him for an apology and retraction.

And your pound of flesh.

[yendi]

I'l gladly accept money in lieu of flesh.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

If he had money or talent then he wouldn't be stealing.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

We could googlebomb him and *make* Google return an article on plagarism for his bookstore and his name.

We need:

An article

A host that can withstand getting slashdotted

A buttload of people with blogs/sites of their own willing to do this.

Sombitch gonna PAY, bigod.

[yendi]

I like that plan. Getting the bandwidth will be the key thing. I'll wait a day or two to see how things get resolved before then with the host.

[amokk]

You know most universities have a good amount of bandwidth...

[hotcoffeems.livejournal.com]

Why do people even bother pulling this kind of stunt? Do they think no one else has an internet conection and might be aware of both sites?

It's like those fools in high school who'd always submit song lyrics as original poetry to the literary magazine (y'know, like no one else in the school had a copy of Dark Side of the Moon)...only, of course, infinitely worse. But same degree of clumsy stupidity.

Dumbasses.

[yendi]

Yeesh -- people really tried that? That's just pathetic.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

I'll bet he sells stripped books too!

:D (old TH reference)

[yendi]

There's no limit to how low he might sink. :-)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Grrrr. I get so PISSED when people take credit for other people's work. It's so STUPID.

This guy also appears to be involved in RPG creation and fan interviews. One wonders how legit all that was, too.

[yendi]

Oh, I don't have the slightest doubt that the RPG stuff was swiped from somebody. Once a thief, etc. The interviews, I dunno. I'm guessing that, depending on the publication, he might have made them up completely, or embellished them.