'Digital Emeralds' plagiarizes us, made by ImmortalKingHD/welley34



What you see above is a screenshot of Digital Emeralds, a Minecraft news site I discovered a month ago. On the left of the picture is our article reviewing the adventure map 'The Forgotten Land', and on the right is the exact same article on Digital Emeralds. Digital Emeralds plagiarized us twice before I found the site, and to my disgust the site is owned by the only person who has been on Minecraft Most Wanted twice: welley34 and ImmortalKingHD (same guy, new user name). I won't go into details about why they are on that list because you can go look at the links, but recently he has tried (and failed) to crash our website. I contacted William (his real name) and asked in the kindest way I could under those circumstances to take down the articles copied from us. Said articles were about Adventure Maps and the 1.4 Command Block, both copy and pasted from our site. He did take down the articles, but when I asked why he did that he didn't respond.

More recently I have asked that he shut down or revamp the entire site, since it has the same layout, theme, and design as Powered by Redstone. He replied by calling me a bi*ch and hasn't contacted me since. For those of you who are not aware, plagiarism can be considered copyright infringement in many countries, including the US. I'm not going to sue him or anything, but I thought my readers might like to know about it. I'm not going to post a link to his blog because that would generate traffic to it, but if you really want to know you can send us an email asking for the adress.

Update: the site has been taken down, see this article.

Comments

  1. jesusthekillerAugust 31, 2012 at 1:22 AM

    HaHa! I would try to DDoS him if i know how :D


    Anyways, gonna make a script to infinitely download site and make it run out of bandwidth... We'll see :)

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  2. jesusthekillerAugust 31, 2012 at 1:23 AM

    Edit, he deleted posts.


    But i got his server IP. . . >:]
    William Biron be aware, idiot who posts his personal data online.

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  3. Honeydewmelon56August 31, 2012 at 1:35 AM

    and i read the "about us" page on there and it even says he has his own "grammar natzi" just like PBR. :(

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  4. Corbin DavenportAugust 31, 2012 at 2:24 AM

    Yeah, and whoever it is, he's doing a terrible job. You can almost smell the bad grammar :)

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  5. Corbin DavenportAugust 31, 2012 at 2:27 AM

    Well it's not hosted on his server, it's hosted on wordpress.com (which doesn't have a bandwidth limit). So you might need to try something else :/

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  6. jesusthekillerAugust 31, 2012 at 3:18 AM

    Wow! So made-by-noob server! No noCheat, factions are bypassable and it really sucks :D


    Looking for that pixel-art to get rid of it :D


    PS: And tons of lag

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  7. jesusthekillerAugust 31, 2012 at 3:19 AM

    I noticed, it's why i don't do it.

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  8. Honeydewmelon56August 31, 2012 at 3:57 AM

    and what does it smell like? lol

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  9. Honeydewmelon56August 31, 2012 at 3:59 AM

    yeah...it crashes every 5 seconds :( (on my computer)


    ps. if you grief, dont grief the faction "YeOldTowne" my friend owns that one.

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  10. WardrumsjrAugust 31, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    i hated welley then now im friends with him i am making a video series with him

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  11. Honeydewmelon56August 31, 2012 at 8:32 AM

    -_-

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  12. BubbaZeroAugust 31, 2012 at 9:54 AM

    You know. Wordpress policy states that copyright could lead to indefinite removal of a blog.... *wink wink*

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  13. Corbin DavenportAugust 31, 2012 at 10:21 AM

    aaaaannd we have lost someone to the dark side.

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  14. Corbin DavenportAugust 31, 2012 at 10:22 AM

    Oh really? Might have to look into that then...

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  15. Corbin DavenportAugust 31, 2012 at 10:23 AM

    It smells like dog crap and rotten eggs....after they have been outside for 20 years.

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  16. Honeydewmelon56August 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM

    i saw like 2 minutes of that skyblock video welley did. HIS VOICE IS SOOOO ANNOYING!

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  17. StanSeptember 1, 2012 at 4:43 AM

    What is the email?

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  18. StanSeptember 1, 2012 at 4:51 AM

    I am on a tablet right now, I cannot see the comments as they are white, like the backgound.

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  19. wardrumsjrSeptember 1, 2012 at 5:07 AM

    ikr

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  20. wardrumsjrSeptember 1, 2012 at 5:07 AM

    are you the one that plays on welly's server?

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  21. crofterbroSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:21 AM

    sigh......He doesnt know when to give up does he? He was mad at me for talking to corbin through dynamp and almost banned me for it! I like the server that he owns but i just wish he would quit being a jerk.

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  22. Corbin DavenportSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM

    If you built a theme park on that server, you can do it on another one. I can't believe I almost built a city on that place :/

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  23. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM

    yeah i like the server, i play on it, but i hate welley.

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  24. Corbin DavenportSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Oh dear, thanks for letting me know. I'll have to fix that.

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  25. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    you almost built a city?

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  26. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 7:47 AM

    yeah i like the server, its the owner i have a problem with.

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  27. Corbin DavenportSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:47 AM

    On the 'Contact Us' page.

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  28. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 10:13 AM

    just went on the server. think i just got myself banned LAWL :D

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  29. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    nope. i definitely got myself banned.

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  30. rafamsalasSeptember 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM

    How? D:

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  31. rafamsalasSeptember 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM

    How did you get banned? BTW, I haven't seen you in a while :P

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  32. FiskavSeptember 1, 2012 at 2:35 PM

    Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

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  33. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 3:04 PM

    rafamsalas! i havent seen you in a while!

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  34. Honeydewmelon56September 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM

    i was playing and welley comes on and says "honeydew" "i saw your post about me on pbr" (exact words) and that was all i heard before i logged out cause i didnt want to deal with him in a chat battle cause the dsl in our house is down so it takes like 5 min for a chat post to go up :(

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  35. FruitcakeCat63September 2, 2012 at 12:03 AM

    I think they just took down the site, not sure... hmmmmm...... not sure if I'm right.

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  36. crofterbroSeptember 2, 2012 at 12:25 AM

    Yep, i got banned. Im not 100% sure why but i think its for the same reason honeydewmelon got banned for.

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  37. Corbin DavenportSeptember 2, 2012 at 12:43 AM

    Wow, that guy is insane now. I need to figure how to block his IP from my site so he won't read the comments :P

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  38. Corbin DavenportSeptember 2, 2012 at 12:44 AM

    Yes he did :D

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  39. Honeydewmelon56September 2, 2012 at 2:55 AM

    :D

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  40. Honeydewmelon56September 2, 2012 at 2:57 AM

    yep. he commented on the post about his blog being taken down too. but with his new screen name, "immortal"

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  41. Corbin DavenportSeptember 2, 2012 at 4:41 AM

    It's like an online family reunion :D

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  42. Honeydewmelon56September 2, 2012 at 5:17 AM

    lawl yeah i met a lot of people on the server before i got banned :)

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  43. thenumb3rguySeptember 10, 2012 at 1:12 AM

    MY WHOLE SERVER GOT COPIED by welley!!! my server ip: survival.diamondsurvival.com

    ReplyDelete

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