SINGAPORE, May 27 — Pirated bags, pirated clothes, pirated software, and now, pirated blogs?
With advertising dollars to be had from site hits, copycats have come up with ever inventive ways of leeching off the efforts of original bloggers.
It can range from “splogs” that use automated software to copy online content, to human copy-and-pasters who either lift wholesale with small changes or in part.
Blogger Blobzz, a 29-year-old housewife, was a victim of one such copycat.