I received a text message from Mai last Friday informing me that my LO was snagged by this blogger and she claimed that it’s her work. I was shocked and puzzled at the same time. I’ve heard of piracy/plagiarism on photos that’s why most photographers watermark their work before posting them on the web. But why would somebody pirate an LO?

The whole story was revealed in the bebot forums. This copycat blogger has a blog site that contains posts from everywhere. She’s been constantly copying and pasting other people’s posts on her blog. Cheche’s her ultimate idol as most of the posts were snagged from her. Funny thing is, she copies everything from the title to each and every single word. So that makes everybody’s relatives her own relatives, everybody’s husbands as her husbands, other people’s cooking her own cooking, and more. She only copied the LO that I submitted and won me a prize in one of the bebot contests. It was my photo in the LO and the journaling was about me… and yeah, she claimed that it’s her. I wonder why she didn’t snag my cooking posts? Hindi ba mukhang masarap ang mga luto ko??? *LOL* Even crazier, she posts messages on her shoutbox using other pinoy bloggers’ names as if her blog’s super popular. I was really laughing hysterically when I saw cheche and tantan’s name on her shoutbox - idol talaga! Even Aggie, Diane, and fritzie’s name were also there. So she has imaginary friends, get it? Weird!

Oh anyways, I wasn’t really THAT mad… but I guess every person has their own intellectual rights to protect. I posted a couple of messages on her copied posts asking her to please credit the owners. See, I’m poised as ever. haha… She was already bombarded with hate messages from everywhere so I don’t need to post a few more. Besides, I was more of dumbfounded with her insanity rather than mad with what she did. As of last night, the copycat had deleted the copied posts and removed her shoutbox already.

I’m not a good storyteller so you can read the full story here, here, and here.

The world is surely full of crazy people…