I ran into a case of plagiarism today involving the company I work for.
This website, Ron’s ROV Links, totally ripped off this article, didn’t cite the source or link to the original, AND hotlinked the images. That’s breaking internet courtesy guidelines.
See for yourself:
Ron’s version
Original
I sent an email, so we’ll see how they respond.
On a semi-related note, Saab makes undersea vehicles.
Today I noticed a similarity between the beginning of The Walkmen’s What’s In It For Me? and the end of cLOUDDEAD’s our name. This is a clip of one crossfading into the other, in respective order, and then panning out right and left, respectively.
I tuned our name up 32 cents to better match it to The Walkmen song. I think my brain is tricking me into hearing the two alternating chords from What’s In It For Me? in that huge outro chord.
Does anyone else think they sound similar?
This is a laughably blatant design rip-off of a particular phone. And apparently Tocco means “Touch” in Italian.
The packaging looks pretty similar as well.
Even if this phone had all the feature advantages in the world over the iPhone I still couldn’t take it seriously because it’s trying to look like something else. This kind of stuff just bugs me.
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