Last week, we identified a major criminal enterprise operating a website that has been stealing articles from reputable news sites around the world, including this one, for at least three and a half years.
Each day, they post dozens of articles, stolen from media outlets including The Guardian, Associated Press, CBC, CTV, CityNews, The Globe and Mail and a number of small outlets including Canada’s National Observer, Nunatsiaq News and Ricochet. Every single piece of content on the site is attributed to an AI-generated journalist named ‘Jesse Cox,’ and every single piece of content on this site is stolen.
“Major criminal enterprise”… the crime? Reposting news articles.
It turns out monetizing stolen content is illegal. Shocking, right?
They sound so breathless and offended by it all.
Big corps led the way so they kind of deserve it.
This not news, this worthless time wasting information flooding.
Copyright infringement is not “stealing.”
You forgot to put the archive link.
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This site sounds useful. Anyone have a similar alternative? I think this article just convinced me to give them a try.
I don’t see anyone refusing to take the site down. They contacted the hosting company, and a few days later the hosting company took it down. If this is the quality of journalism they’re trying to protect, I don’t think any value was lost.
