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Dec 23 2008

The Huffington Post Slammed for Content Theft

Published by Max Steel at 10:00 am under Uncategorized Edit This

Huffington PostWired Blog Network is reporting content theft by the Huffington Post. Is yours next?

The Huffington Post, a venture-capital-backed new media site that mixes links to other sites content with hundreds of celebrity and volunteer blogger posts, is being accused of slimy business practices by a handful of smaller publications who say the site is unfairly copying and publishing their content.

Whet Moser, an editor at alternata]ive weekly Chicago Reader wants to know why The Huffington Post’s newly formed Chicago-focused venture is stealing their copyrighted concert reviews and reprinting them in whole in order to get search engine traffic. And he found other examples taken wholesale from The Onion and Time Out Chicago.

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One Response to “The Huffington Post Slammed for Content Theft”

  1. bill_fingeron 23 Dec 2008 at 3:01 pm edit this

    I think you just stole content from Wired Blog Network.

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