Ever Checked your Name on Google? You'll be Surprised!

Last year, I took some basic computer classes. Some of the skills we learned in class was "copy-and-paste" and learning to identify websites that aren't for academic purposes, and basic java. I then created a blog for this class. I copy and pasted one one article by a British idiot, right-clicked on my blogspot and pasted it there. The article is about the binary, Hexadecimal, and octal etc. Though I wasn't studying these advanced computing language, I was careless about living the impression to the world. In that blogspot, I also had some study outlines for my classes; things I should study for the each chapters etc. 

Sometimes later, I went on google and browse through my name. I was appalled to find that the author of that article had my name pasted in his website for stealing his article; his article, he claimed was his own ideas, and that I stole them. He also claimed that I may have stole other stuff that were on my Website. He also had my profile picture and weblog up on his website. He also had other people he claimed stole his ideas! many are Indians. I was surprised. First of all, I didn't use the content of his article as it was way too advanced for me, besides, I didn't make any claim that it was my article or ideas. Secondly, my emails and contacts were there, and he could have emailed me about this. I removed his article and wrote him an apology letter and also explained to him why I pasted his article in my blog. And I also told him in that email that I should have attributed his article to his website and then I asked him to remove my name on his website, but he didn't respond. But the fact that he listed many people in his website, demonstrated how insecure, paranoid this individual is. 

Copyright laws are very serious laws especially here in America. But sometimes people who believe their ideas are stolen or used by other people often times did this to elevate their own reputation in the world, in most cases, their claims aren't always verified. Whatever his motive was, I didn't steal his article for my personal benefits, or to show the world that the ideas embedded in this article grew out of my head! this is absurd. But this is a world why by people are free to say whatever pleasing to them knowing that they have the rights and time to do on their own computers. 

I spoke to my lecture about it and he asked if I'd communicated with this "angry whiz" and I said that I took his article out and wrote him a letter, he assured me that things like this happened often with computer programmers. The ideas or ideologies expressed in computer programing are often overlapped and it is impossible for someone to claimed rights on Binary systems and other systems that everyone used. Unless that whoever used someone deliberately stole an article and put his name on it, which I didn't do. 

I encourage all visitors to this blog to type their names, nicknames on google.com and find out what others are saying about them in the cyber world. You will be surprised at how many garbage people are saying about you! 

Again, I don't run, and I don't hide. Write to me if you think I stole your ideas whether you are a computer programmer or a political scientist! Don't be an idiot!!