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In Argentina, Law Against Plagiarism Plagiarized

Posted by kdawson on from the send-yourself-to-jail dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Argentinian politician who introduced a law to send plagiarists to jail for three to eight years appears to have plagiarized the explanation of his bill directly from Wikipedia. The bulk of his explanation is three paragraphs that are taken, verbatim, from Wikipedia, without acknowledgment."

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  1. AHHHG! Techdirt! by honestmonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You made me go read a Techdirt article. I don't do that anymore. Bad /.

    Mike is a hypocritical jerk who likes the sound of his own typing, apparently. Occasionally he even has a point, but usually he belabors stuff so much the point gets lost in the miasma. Most often things break down into the fanboys ("Is too!") and the haters ("Is not!") camps, and nothing much comes of it. Are there any filters on /. for Techdirt articles?

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