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EbolaParasite:
You obviously don't know the implications of plagiarism. I repeat, she can be sued for millions of dollars. Stealing is a BIG crime. Plagiarism is a BIG crime. The fact that Nigerians Plagiarize their school project, homework and every single thing in the University does not make it ok or a small crime as you seem to think it is.

Did she kill anybody? Or did she molest any underage minors? Because to me those are real 'crimes'. Yes, I know plagiarism is an 'offence' that is punishable to the full height of the law. STILL I think that suing her for 'millions' will be going over the top.

Stop trying to sound like you really want that to happen. Much as I don't encourage going against legal standards, I must confess you all are too quick to judge. She committed a blunder OF COURSE and she should be punished. So far that is what's happening.

I've seen a friend who went to an interview for a job in London, we both did the test but on different days. He thought he could use Naija style of copying from another Naija guy next to him during the test. When he saw me and told he got kicked out when the white invigilator noticed he was craning his neck for a simple aptitude test, I laughed. These white people no wan hear anything. He was simply told to leave and that was the end of the interview for him. So I know what cheating/plagiarism means even in the unis. I'm sure they're as strict in Nigeria, it's just in some places that they blur the lines.

Rilamaka:
Complete BULLSHIT. Mr Aydee or whatever , I hope you can now buy your own Range Rover? Yeye dey smell

Did you smoke something before saying that

bunmioguns:
I NEED IT, HELP ME PLACE THIS THERE

https://www.nairaland.com/1938808/mtn-data-bundle-cheapest-rates

done, I'll tell u wen I need my 500mb payment

I miss LIB o, abeg google shud restore it o, am sure Lindy as learnt her lessons

bobo65:
done, I'll tell u wen I need my 500mb payment

thanks brother


One love

Hmmm google she might go broke o

Busybody2:
She acknowledged she was guilty in her response on the day this news broke out and also said that Google gave her the chance to file a counterclaim. So OBVIOUSLY she was found guilty on a magnanimous scale HENCE reason she got deleted.







The Lawyer Linda quoted also said:

please can you bold where she accepted she was guilty. Thanks

Aida13:
Did she kill anybody? Or did she molest any underage minors? Because to me those are real 'crimes'. Yes, I know plagiarism is an 'offence' that is punishable to the full height of the law. STILL I think that suing her for 'millions' will be going over the top.

Stop trying to sound like you really want that to happen. Much as I don't encourage going against legal standards, I must confess you all are too quick to judge. She committed a blunder OF COURSE and she should be punished. So far that is what's happening.

I've seen a friend who went to an interview for a job in London, we both did the test but on different days. He thought he could use Naija style of copying from another Naija guy next to him during the test. When he saw me and told he got kicked out when the white invigilator noticed he was craning his neck for a simple aptitude test, I laughed. These white people no wan hear anything. He was simply told to leave and that was the end of the interview for him. So I know what cheating/plagiarism means even in the unis. I'm sure they're as strict in Nigeria, it's just in some places that they blur the lines.

The difference is that she commercialised the blog, and was profiting from other people's work. Hence it's a serious issue. However, I'd say she's lucky because "blogger" offers a third party agreement and platform, and her private information would be protected. And that puts google in a tight corner, as the owner of the platform. That was why her blog was yanked off the internet - to protect the parent company.

If it had been her personal website, with her domain name, you're looking at a big lawsuit that probably would have been in a region that she wouldn't be able to afford. For example: with gettyimages, you need a licence agreement, and you have to always reference whoever took the pictures, and give them credit. You can read about it here: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/corporate/licenseagreements.aspx

Well, she's very lucky, I must say. And hopefully, she'll start doing things the right way. She's a hustler, and I like her spirit.

obiscolly:
Should it still be called plagiarism if she gives credit to the sources she's quoting from? Cos there are several of her posts I've read where she gives reference to the original sources, which most of the time are other big blogs and news websites. Cnn, tmz, BBC, etc all quote their sources when required. So I don't see the big deal. All I see is a desperate and pathetic guy who's trying to gain cheap publicity for himself and his sites I never even knew before now.

Well she does gives credit only if she's copying from western media. Linda do steal contents from a lot of unknown naija bloggers and all she will do is to add about 3 or 4 sentences of her own.
I watched the whole drama unfold on twitter and instead of her to apologise to the guy she and her voltrons were screaming 'bring it on' 'hater'
He whom the gods wants to kill they will first make mad

adewasco2k:
Story for the gods

Itan fun awon irunmole

SirShymex:
The difference is that she commercialised the blog, and was profiting from other people's work. Hence it's a serious issue. However, I'd say she's lucky because "blogger" offers a third party agreement and platform, and her private information would be protected. And that puts google in a tight corner, as the owner of the platform. That was why her blog was yanked off the internet - to protect the parent company.

If it had been her personal website, with her domain name, you're looking at a big lawsuit that probably would have been in a region that she wouldn't be able to afford. For example: with gettyimages, you need a licence agreement, and you have to always reference whoever took the pictures, and give them credit. You can read about it here: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/corporate/licenseagreements.aspx

Well, she's very lucky, I must say. And hopefully, she'll start doing things the right way. She's a hustler, and I like her spirit.

You're quite correct on all points. It IS a serious issue and of course when it comes to Getty images or any other images that do not belong expressly to a person, they need a license to use it in any form of publishing whether online or off. I know she has a big battle ahead. But like you rightly said, she's a hustler. Like most of us. I hope she learns her lesson and takes it to heart, because the Naija mentality of getting away with murder is too much.

Mods kindly do the needful. The title of this topic is so wrong. This is not an official statement from google but a statements from a google staff explain why it could have been shut down
The topic should be
Google employee reveals reasons why lindaikeji blog might have been shut down

Aida13:
You're quite correct on all points. It IS a serious issue and of course when it comes to Getty images or any other images that do not belong expressly to a person, they need a license to use it in any form of publishing whether online or off. I know she has a big battle ahead. But like you rightly said, she's a hustler. Like most of us. I hope she learns her lesson and takes it to heart, because the Naija mentality of getting away with murder is too much.

You just have to be careful on the internet when you're making money off it.

I think NL's adsense also got cancelled for something similar, that's how it goes.

Just study the game, and be cautious.

SirShymex:
The difference is that she commercialised the blog, and was profiting from other people's work. Hence it's a serious issue. However, I'd say she's lucky because "blogger" offers a third party agreement and platform, and her private information would be protected. And that puts google in a tight corner, as the owner of the platform. That was why her blog was yanked off the internet - to protect the parent company.

If it had been her personal website, with her domain name, you're looking at a big lawsuit that probably would have been in a region that she wouldn't be able to afford. For example: with gettyimages, you need a licence agreement, and you have to always reference whoever took the pictures, and give them credit. You can read about it here: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/corporate/licenseagreements.aspx

Well, she's very lucky, I must say. And hopefully, she'll start doing things the right way. She's a hustler, and I like her spirit.

Your post is so on point

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All i can say for now is that "all is well"

Parkac:
This is one thing Nigerians fail to understand. You might not care about copyright infringement here but those abroad do.
Let's Say No To Intellectual Theft and stop calling somebody pursuing his/her right a Hater.

lv them.dey think say na Nigeria wey person go pack 10different films put for one DVD and will go free wt out prosecution... Let dm try DAT in Europe n see if dr million naira accnt will not turn to zero naira from litigation settlement. It was even reported on BBC news to know how serious her offense was.

itstpia1:
hey, b.astard, who is tilapia?

your mama?

Dayumm!!

Holy ghost fire!! The devil is a liar!!

You know I gatt love fi yuh girlie like tilapia fish.

Shyte, I shall get some fried tilapia fish from a naija restaurant on my way home, just to apologise.

Finna send you some.

dollarlander:
You these Nigerians, ori yin ti gbale, your head don nack for ground. They are accusing someone of stealing other peoples work you are here supporting range rover. Do u think if Linda was to be in Europe or america she must be behind the bars now.

Because there is no respect for the rule of law in Nigeria does not mean we don't know what the law says. GI and ask what omo ibos have done to nollywood you will know they are living on the past glory.most of them are very poor due to the activities of nigerias that live on other peoples work just like your aunty is doing.

Wake up.

A smelly yolobar tribalist you are. You need help, along with the rest of tribalists that liked your post.

adewasco2k:
Story for the gods

lol.

abdullkabar:
Itan fun awon irunmole

Hahaha, nice translation paddy

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remsonik:
Well she does gives credit only if she's copying from western media. Linda do steal contents from a lot of unknown naija bloggers and all she will do is to add about 3 or 4 sentences of her own.
I watched the whole drama unfold on twitter and instead of her to apologise to the guy she and her voltrons were screaming 'bring it on' 'hater'
He whom the gods wants to kill they will first make mad

Well...i never heard that. But if it did happen, she's wrong at that. But, Mr Ay Dee insists that referencing the source isn't enough; that she has to obtain a written permission from the writer. That doesn't make any sense to me. Truth is most materials people use on their blogs especially in Nigeria aren't copyrighted. So anyone that takes advantage of that can't be held liable for copyright infringement. We should establish clearly what plagiarism is here. Take the instance of a blogger using the picture of the President of Nigeria in a post. This picture wasn't taken by the blogger, but they go ahead to use it anyway (this many bloggers and even the complainant is guilty of. How many people have even had the opportunity of taking pics of the President afterall...lol). Does that still count as plagiarism, especially if the picture isn't copyrighted?
I'm open to learn. I've never given the issue of copyright and plagiarism much attention and I'll be glad I get the facts right.

[color=#990000][/color]too bad

bigt2:
That's a bad one from google.

explain

Linda experience presently can be terned as the trouble of a trespassing tenant. Google sees certain activities from her end as a treat to their policy. That means that a tenant must thread softly. The ground may be sinking and the soil may be slippery

obiscolly:
Well...i never heard that. But if it did happen, she's wrong at that. But, Mr Ay Dee insists that referencing the source isn't enough; that she has to obtain a written permission from the writer. That doesn't make any sense to me. Truth is most materials people use on their blogs especially in Nigeria aren't copyrighted. So anyone that takes advantage of that can't be held liable for copyright infringement. We should establish clearly what plagiarism is here. Take the instance of a blogger using the picture of the President of Nigeria in a post. This picture wasn't taken by the blogger, but they go ahead to use it anyway (this many bloggers and even the complainant is guilty of. How many people have even had the opportunity of taking pics of the President afterall...lol). Does that still count as plagiarism, especially if the picture isn't copyrighted?
I'm open to learn. I've never given the issue of copyright and plagiarism much attention and I'll be glad I get the facts right.

Thank you. Linda clearly stated that she often post the source of her news. Cos if posting a news article and it's source without the permission of the original article writer and owner constitutes plagiarism,then even NL would be in trouble.

I don't know why i like this old adage, "He whom the gods wants to kill, they will first make mad", i always grin whenever i see it.

Well, to the topic, Nigerians need to be re-educated (yes, am generalizing...deal with it).
Imagine the kind of ignorance and illiteracy oozing out from this thread. Like really, it's over-shadowing my beans-induced fart

Aspireahead:
please can you bold where she accepted she was guilty. Thanks

PARAGRAPH 12 of her response below: Her admission of guilt. She styishly lied that they are hackers, spammers and cybersquatters to hide her crime and whip up fake sentiments. When she was supposed to be defending herself to google why she had stolen more than 10,000 articles, pictures, etc... And the irony was that Google was removing the offensive stuffs bit by bit when she had the nerve to post this rant. So who can blame them for yanking her off!!!

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lindaikeji: So something has been going on for the past couple of days that I haven't reacted to because I wanted to see it play out and see how far these people will go. They have gone far and it's now time to react.

The only reason this is happening to me is because I'm number one...so I am flattered. I am currently No.10 on Alexa.com, more read than all the other news sites in Nigeria, so I understand why I am the target. If I were them, I'd hate me too...lol.

So here's what's going on. Sometime last year, some guys decided it was time to run me out of business (duh, like you can...lol). So they began to spam by blog. And when your blog gets a lot of spam, Google (which hosts my site) can take your blog down. But instead of taking my blog down, Google took my Adsense down for a few months and eventually re-instated it. So they didn't succeed. These same people started sending strange emails to me...looking for different ways to have access to my blog. But I wouldn't let them. If they could, they would have hacked it, but they couldn't so they continued to look for different ways to attack my blog. Please continue...


In April 2014, these guys decided to close down the blog again. In the emails they exchanged back and forth, they said 'plagiarism is a good excuse to finish her'. (they forget that if they succeed in closing down LIB because I'm on blogger...I could easily start a website). Now let me tell you who these guys are. They are IT people, security experts who know how the internet works. They are hackers and cyber-squatters...and only go after the biggest internet setups.

Immediately after I shared photos of my new SUV, these guys re-connected again and decided it was finally time to end LIB because there were quite a few people who were mad that I bought the car and they wanted to play on their emotions. The head of this team is a guy who goes by the name @MrAyeDee on twitter. They decided to use the plagiarism card. He said it was the strongest claim to make and easiest way to get support from other people. And then the campaign started with him claiming that I took something from him without crediting him or asking for permission. 100% false. If he owns a website, I've never visited it. He started by writing all sorts to get people to notice...and then he acted. Like I said these guys are IT experts, they know what to do to get blogger/Google to come after you. So he and his team started filling several reports, sending links of my blog posts and making claims to Google. Outrageous false claims. And because Google acts first before they contact the blog owner, they took down some posts and asked me to file a counter claim if I felt I had a right to re-publish those articles. Now that my blog is under Google review, these guys have started to spam it again.

They want Google to shut it down. That is their aim. Will they succeed? I sincerely don't know. I'm not an IT expert...I know they are spamming and filing complaints, I don't know what else they are doing behind the scenes but they are relentless.

Now let me give you guys a bit who this Aye Dee guy is. He's anonymous on Twitter. Nobody really knows who he is but according to those investigating him, his name is Emmanuel Efremov simply known as EE by his friends. He's the owner of 15Past8.com media group. Based in Manhattan. Gets funding from some US organization. (His number - 212 9608127). He's apparently been stalking me for years now and have registered quite a number of my domain names...lindaikeji.net plus 8 others. He also owns 9jalife.com...yep, he owns a blog. He accuses me of copyright infringement but when you go to 9jalife and other websites he owns...98% of the things he has on there are other people's content. You see pot calling kettle black? Lol.

Immediately he was found out yesterday, the IT expert immediately started to redirect lindaikeji.net to my blog. If you click lindaikeji.net now, it will redirect you to this blog. He panicked yesterday and quickly did it. A name he register as far back as 2011. Lol. Choi!

Not only that, he's also a cyber squatter. Yep, he registers 100s of websites belonging to others around the world and tries to make money off them. Guess one of his aims is to run me out of blogger so I come to him and his team and pay thousands of dollars to get one of the several names he's registered. Not going to happen, boo! Hehe[/size]

Below is an article from lawyer and blogger Uduak Udouk of Africa Music Lawabout this guy and his cyber-squatting criminal activities
"According to a twitter handle owned by @MrAyeDee, celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji was accused of copyright infringement of his works. He reported these infringing activities to Google and what resulted was a take down of his articles/works on her site. He also claimed with the rate and way things looked, Linda Ikeji’s site could be shut down within a week.
I get the fact that this guy was concerned about Ikeji’s activities and got Google to do something about it

. What I don’t get is his very strong response and continued massive tweets talking about the same issue in an almost vendetta like style towards her. This got me curious to know who he was and what could be a motive behind all of these.
I began by looking at his twitter page and narrowed in on his website www. 15Past8.com. The description of the services he offered through his media group raised my curiosity. He says his media group owns “hundreds of websites.” He also claimed some of the infringing content on Linda Ikeji came from his site. Well one of his hundreds of websites is 9jalife.com because it has the 15Past8.com media group stamped on it. I did a basic search on 9jalife.com to see who owns it. The name ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ came up as the registered owner of 9jalife.com. 9jalife.com is clear it is owned by 15Past8.com media group, @MrAyeDee’s company.
For my article on Linda Ikeji, many have been saying they are surprised she does not own her own domain. Purely out of curiosity, I looked up Lindaikeji.com and noted it is owned by someone else, a case of cybersquatting. I also look up Linda Ikeji.net and see the same ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ come up. Now I am very curious. How is it that Emmanuel Efremov owner of 9jalife.com, a subsidiary of 15Past8.com, also owns LindaIkeji.net? Am I missing something?
Needless to say, I google the name ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ and lo and behold, there is a case by Volkswagen against an Emmanuel Efremov for cybersquatting. Looking at the description of 15Past8.com, the registered domain owner of 9jalife.com and Lindaikeji.net and the case by Volkswagen against Emmanuel Efremov, I am left feeling that the credibility of @MrAyeDee is shot and very weak at best. It also makes me wonder about any prior existing relationship between him and Linda Ikeji as to the issue of domain ownership i.e. cybersquatting. It is not uncommon for cybersquatters to ask you the legitimate owner of a trademark to pay them to own your own website.
If you accuse someone of copyright infringement, it is a good idea to make sure your hands are very clean and there is no connection whatsoever with a possible bad faith attempt to hijack their domain name. I am curious to see where all of these leads." Uduak Udouk
Now talking about copyright infringement, Mr Aye Dee feels that crediting source is not enough, that I have to write a written permission to the website owner. That's laughable at best. So if there's a breaking news on TMZ, I will first write to the editors and wait for the 2/3 days it will take them to reply me...that's if they even bother to.[/size]

[size=20pt]I admit that I take content from other sites. Plenty of it sef[/size],

[size=3pt] but the question is, which website in the world doesn't? If you go on Bossip.com, 50% of what is there is from other sources. Daily Mail UK takes from other sites, re-writes and give credit. UK Mirror takes from other sites. MediaTakeOut quotes other sources. E! Online, Us Weekly, People and even CNN take news from other sources and give credit, so why is mine an offense to the extent that my blog deserves to be shut down? Even in Nigeria, which site doesn't take news from other sites? Which? That is how media runs. Perez Hilton makes $10million a year from blogging and 50% of the content on his site is not originally his. As long as you give credit...which I do! Except in cases where you don't know the original source of the story or photo. So many blogs take content from my site, how many of them have I gone after? In fact, I'm happy that they do so, I have nothing against it. If I take content from another site and they approach me to take it down despite giving credit, I will take it down. But that doesn't happen.

I try as much as possible to get as many exclusives as I can, but because I work from home my team is so small. I've been planning to employ more hands which I will do eventually and then get a proper office. I'm kinda glad this happened. It's now pushing me to act and take my business more seriously.

So Mr Aye Dee, Mr EE, Mr #bringmedown or whoever you are and Jeremy Weate (look who is talking ..lol) and all the others talking, I am not afraid of you! You didn't bring me this far and you're not enough to bring me down. Like if you dream it, speak it, act it, hope it, envision it, see it, pray it....YOU are not enough! You can't bring a good woman down. You can try boo, or please keep trying...but you see this lady, she ain't going nowhere. You don't even know who you are dealing with. You don't know what drives me and how far I plan to go. I've been a hustler since I was 17, doing it on my own...on my own terms. Plus I have the backing of God...and of course my hundreds of thousands of readers. I repeat, YOU are not enough!

I have been blogging for close to eight years and I plan to be around for many more years to come, so get used it. If you manage to close down LIB, I'll come back bigger and better. So keep trying boo! And enjoy all the attention you will get from this post...you've earned it. Kisses!

Oh by the way Mr EE, one of your friends who you were doing the #bringlindaikejidown campaign with has turned against you and contacted me. He's a LIBer just like you...hehe...but decided it wasn't fair and reached out to me. God bless you Mr Aye Dee. I hope your hustle also pays. All the best.

To others reading this, if you want to be successful in life, please prepare yourselves for something like this. People don't go after failures. You have to be really crazy to gather to plot the downfall of an orange seller or a gate-man (with all due respect). These people go after successes. Once you succeed in any field, they will come after you...it's inevitable. Ask everyone who has succeeded. It's not whether they will try, because they will...it's how you respond to it that matters.

Don't you ever, listen to me, ever let anyone defeat you. You didn't work so hard to get to the top for somebody who didn't know how you struggled to bring you down. You will be disappointing God. You don't even know how disappointed He will be. How dare you let them win? They will come for you...that's a guarantee just make sure you defeat them.

These people are not even haters..they are excuses...they are the natural reaction to success...put in this world to take actions against people who are climbing the ladder of success. If they see you're about to fly, they will try to cut your wings because when you fly, there's no stopping you anymore. And that's what they want to do...to stop you! Don't let them distract you. Stay focused on your dreams and keep flying.

Lastly, You know how negative voices can be so loud that you can't hear the positive ones? In moments like that just quiet the noise and listen again...listen only to the positive ones...because they are all that matters.

May all your dreams come true! May everything you put your hands into succeed. May your enemies show their faces so you know who they are...but may they never win.

Thank you so much to all LIB readers for your loyalty all these years. I keep saying you changed my life and I will always be grateful. Long live LIB.

Thanks guys and have a blessed day.
Now back to blogging!

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obiscolly:
Well...i never heard that. But if it did happen, she's wrong at that. But, Mr Ay Dee insists that referencing the source isn't enough; that she has to obtain a written permission from the writer. That doesn't make any sense to me. Truth is most materials people use on their blogs especially in Nigeria aren't copyrighted. So anyone that takes advantage of that can't be held liable for copyright infringement. We should establish clearly what plagiarism is here. Take the instance of a blogger using the picture of the President of Nigeria in a post. This picture wasn't taken by the blogger, but they go ahead to use it anyway (this many bloggers and even the complainant is guilty of. How many people have even had the opportunity of taking pics of the President afterall...lol). Does that still count as plagiarism, especially if the picture isn't copyrighted?
I'm open to learn. I've never given the issue of copyright and plagiarism much attention and I'll be glad I get the facts right.

pazienza:
Thank you. Linda clearly stated that she often post the source of her news. Cos if posting a news article and it's source without the permission of the original article writer and owner constitutes plagiarism,then even NL would be in trouble.

Citing is not enough. She was still making money from someone else's work. The original writer has the right to deny reproduction without consent, even with citation. Can you start a business selling dubbed Disney movies, just because you said they were made by Disney? Please look up copyright law.

The fact that people generally do not press for legal action doesn't not mean it is not illegal. Look at how often Google removes copies of music videos from YouTube. You think those users didn't put the name of the artist? But if the recording company chooses to complain to Google, they will take the video down.

On another note, Google can do whatever the hell they want. Blogger is their property. Even if they decided to make a rule that no one on Blogger is allowed to post pictures of green apples, they can.

READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

remsonik:
Well she does gives credit only if she's copying from western media. Linda do steal contents from a lot of unknown naija bloggers and all she will do is to add about 3 or 4 sentences of her own.
I watched the whole drama unfold on twitter and instead of her to apologise to the guy she and her voltrons were screaming 'bring it on' 'hater'
He whom the gods wants to kill they will first make mad

hahahahahahha ohh I taught Im da only person who witnessed it. why start a fight u know u can't finish.

Every body is waitn to hear Linda.