Plagiarism Pain Potential for Online Authors

Have you noticed the amount of unbelievable copyright infringement on the Internet? Boy I have. You see I notice these things, because I am an author now having written 1900 articles online and posted them on EzineArticles.com and having also authored thousands of articles on my own sites. Additionally I have written and co-authored books, e-books, community based manuals, Business Operations manuals of over 2500 plus pages; all sorts of things.

After 330,000 page views on EzineArticles.com alone I see these articles I have written getting picked up and they are all over the Internet, which is good and in fact one of the reasons I have written them. Occasionally however I see them on the Internet with someone else's name attached or no name at all and I have actually found my articles copied and someone else claiming them as their own "By Joe Blow". I have to wonder why they bother? It seems silly. But humans are very innately imitators by nature it appears. Very few original ideas out there or writing. Those authors who have such creative abilities, like the so many decent online authors should be celebrated for their insight and skills (many have great articles). People who do not have such skills should hire a ghostwriter and not plagiarize other people