In the days of blatent copyright infringement and plagiarism, it does not surprise me that people decide to copy content from articles and not include any form of attribution or link back to the original article. Well, I just ran across such a case when going through the Google Webmaster Tools results for my site.

Someone decided to copy and paste the text of my "HOWTO - Limiting Access to TCP-wrapped Services With hosts.allow" article that I wrote for the June 2002 release of Daemon News e-zine. The person decided to not include the original author, much less the copyright text.

It may seem like a victimless crime, but damn... where is the decency in citing your sources?

Here is the link to the plagiarized copy of my article: http://boilinglinux.blogspot.com/2008/05/setting-up-hostsallow.html

Unfortunately, the plagiarizer does not have any direct means of contact, only way is through posting comments.