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by Jayaram V
This article is about illegal copying of information and articles by
experiencefestival.com from other websites. Experiencefestival.com does
it with such impunity that it warrants attention. People who manage
experiencefestival.com have no
hesitation in copying information form other websites illegally to display them on their websites. Interestingly
they are part of a religious institution and supposed to maintain high
moral values and ethical standards themselves. Probably people who
work for experiencefestival.com believe that all information comes from God and so copying is legal. I
am sure even Neale Donald Walsch, the author of Conversations With God, would
disagree.
Almost every religion and religious movement is against stealing.
Anything that we take from others that does not belong to us without their permission
amounts to stealing. All religions preach against such practice.
Categorically, stealing is a religious and spiritual offence. Whether it is done for some moral or religious purpose or selfish
reason does not matter. People at ExperienceFestival.com are ignoring
this important and fundamental moral value in managing and maintaining
their website.
AT ExperienceFestival.com you will find scant
respect for the intellectual property rights. They have ripped of
several articles from Hinduwebsite.com and reproduced them without any
consideration for copyright laws. Their copying tactics are cleverly geared
to promote their own website at the cost of others. Most of the articles
copied from Hinduwebsite.com are the ones that are ranked high by the search engines,
especially Google. By posting these selected articles into their own
website and with the clever use of keywords in the body of the article they managed to improve
the ranking of their own website. Since search engines rely more
upon keywords than original authorship, ExperienceFestival.com stands to
gain by this method of copying.
ExperienceFestival.com do mention the name of the Hinduwebsite.com
with these
words -"courtesy to Hinduwebsite.com". They also
provide some
information about the website. But they don't provide an active link to
Hinduwebsite.com from the same page. This way they ensure that the search engine bots would not
crawl to the original webpages at Hinduwebsite.com. My initial search
on their website shows that in all they have lifted about 44 articles from
Hinduwebsite.com. I wonder how many hundreds of articles they might
have copied from other websites in the same manner.
Hinduwebsite.com is managed and maintained by one person without any organizational
support. The articles presented here, except those that are specifically
mentioned, are the products of
years of study and personal research. ExperienceFestival.com has a whole organization
behind them and millions of dollars to spend for getting original
articles written for them by scholars. I manage this website purely on
my own. I do not collect donations, nor approach any institution for
support. I wonder why ExperienceFestival.com have to choose
this questionable approach to copy content from other websites in such a
manner. I am posting this
on my website as all my attempts to reach them have failed to generate
any response.
I hope they see the point
and remove all references to Hinduwebsite.com and my articles. If you are connected to this organization
or know someone there personally please bring this to their
notice and let them respond to this article by contacting
me.
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