Five Ounces of Pain & plagiarism?
by banter on Mar 10, 2009 7:35 PM EDT
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Five Ounces of Pain is ripping off MMA Junkie
I know lots of sites recycle facts and quotes from other sites, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen as blatant a rip of one article as what 5 Ounces of Pain did with an MMA Junkie article yesterday. The whole thing is literally re-written paragraph by paragraph. The exact words may be different, but it’s still a total lift … without even the decency to link back to the original article!
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Yes, they stole the piece, and that’s why 5 oz. took it down. Did you have anything else to add to this or are you just trying to make 5 oz. look bad? I think Fightlinker already took care of that.
by ufc4 on Mar 10, 2009 7:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That makes as much sense as me accusing you of being Sam Caplan.
by banter on Mar 10, 2009 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did you rip this piece off from FightLinker?
by MMASuPreMaCy on Mar 10, 2009 8:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
5 oz is the worst…mostly because of Sam Caplan…
by Reaser on Mar 10, 2009 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s linking to FightLinker.
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by Richard Wade on Mar 10, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In terms of pure MMA coverage they provide one of the more solid MMA sites around. I can’t speak for Sam Camplan but another one of their writers Bryan Levick is very good at what he does.
by NCSAR on Mar 10, 2009 8:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This is another point. It takes a keen eye and a deep knowledge of MMA to decide that Caplan is bad and Bryan Levick is good. By being on the same site they are equally as tainted, in a way. I don’t go to the site personally any longer, so I can’t say Levick is good at what he does, but by being on 5 ozs I veiw him in the shadow of Caplan since that is his site.
by szucconi on Mar 10, 2009 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Isn’t Levick the one who is being accused of plagiarism?
by Luke Thomas on Mar 10, 2009 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is. However, if I am not mistaken the original article mentioned the Junkie post.
by NCSAR on Mar 10, 2009 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
by banter on Mar 10, 2009 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you win..haha
Either way, I do not think Hughes should bump up and fight Anderson. He will get crushed. He is not better than Silva at any aspect of the sport at this point….
by NCSAR on Mar 10, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wrestling…
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Mar 10, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am not sure at this point… Either way he wouldn’t be able to get close enough for the take down, and if he did can he defeat him with GnP alone?
by NCSAR on Mar 10, 2009 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think that Hughes would be taking Silva down very much either, but in terms of the abstract aspect of the sport, Hughes has much, much better wrestling.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Mar 10, 2009 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This kind of stuff is a major blow to bloging in general. If he did it at the NY Times or something like that then he would be dismissed, but with his own blog he can continue to put out tainted garbage that some people will eat right up. He is just not a very good reporter and his ops articles are, about as good as my little sisters posts about the Jonhas brothers. Not to bash the man, everyone has opinions, but opinions are like assholes in that everyone has them and I am not interested in his.
by szucconi on Mar 10, 2009 8:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
fair enough… I do agree that this is a blow all around.
by NCSAR on Mar 10, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So who’s asshole are you interested in?
by SamCupitt on Mar 11, 2009 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fightlinker called fiveounces a blog…oh wait! What kills me are the ever so popular sources close to the camp told blah blah blah after it’s already been reported by someone else.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Mar 10, 2009 9:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Fightlinker v. 5oz.
What a battle this is.
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by Brett Jones on Mar 11, 2009 8:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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