writers copyrights

[deviant]

See how easy it was to copy Ali's post and pass it off as my own in the same thread, nobody caught me either. I think the same mentality is behind stealing other content. People figure that the internet is so big, the original author will never know and nobody else will realize it. In some areas of the internet ripping off other peoples stories and reposting them is referred to as "Copypasta".

Since the amount of content you have on a site helps your SEO and the internet is crammed full of people trying to boost their rankings, copypasta is becomming more and more common. (even though duplicate content can count against you).