Engadget: Busted for Unethical Blogging

Engadget.com, one of the nets largest gadget blogs was caught today stealing pictures and editorial content from dapreview.com, a website that focuses on digital audio player reviews and news. Stock images and photography provided by product manufacturers often get circulated without proper permission, but are hard to track down. But when dapreview.com had one of their writers personal photos stolen from their site, there was no doubt that wrong-doing was in the works. Engadget had originally posted the Dapreview picture showing the sites watermark clearly visible on the picture, and citing them in the article, but shortly after, cropped the image removing the watermark and changing the link to another site, as if the picture and story was theirs.

 

"However, on the revised version of the same story, the link to DAPreview was removed and it has a chopped version of our picture with the DAPreview logo cut out. We do have a problem with this. They have deliberately circumvented a credit to DAPreview. Instead, the story now links to another blog (mobilemag) that covered our story. This is equivalent to ripping us off."

 

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