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RANT
Some Plonker Plagiarised My Old Website
What hurts most is they made my writing look bad
I used to run a music website called unknown-original.com and now some nitwit has re-registered the domain name and posted botted-up versions of my old stories. Grrr!
Before I started writing here, I wrote about original versions of songs that weren’t as famous as their covers on my own website, unknown-original.com. For example, did you know that Jackie DeShannon recorded the original version of “Bette Davis Eyes” seven years before Kim Carnes’ iconic 80s hit?
For about a year, I published an article a week about an unknown original version of a song and the site got a bit of traction. Not as much as this platform, though, so I let the domain and hosting lapse and am slowly transferring new-and-improved versions of my articles to Medium.
Recently, when I was re-writing my article about the Australian cult hit, “Shivers”, I checked a few sources in a search engine and, lo, my old unknown-original.com article popped up.
“Funny,” I thought to myself. “That webpage should have been deleted by now.”
I clicked on the link and found that unknown-original.com was still alive and well. That’s fine, I’d let the domain name lapse so anyone else is…
