March 5 will be remembered as a big day in the Indian blogosphere as a group of desi bloggers have brought down the big Yahoo! India.
The issue started from the day at least 5 recipes from a food blogger Suryagayatri’s Kariveppila blog were taken and slightly modified to be placed on Yahoo’s Malayalam Portal without any go-ahead or acknowledgement. The news of the plagiarism crowded the entire Indian blogosphere within no time.
After that, a mighty campaign called a ‘Remove Plagiarism’ was started by the desi bloggers and turned into an online protest on March 5. Yahoo! surrendered in haste and sent an apology to Surya Gayathri.
Note: Surya Gayathri hasn’t received a personal apology from Yahoo!. Visit the bloggers’ discussion board at Dining Hall to sport their protest.
Well, A Yahoo! spokeswoman claimed the imitation of the content to be unintentional and blamed the incident on Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd., the content provider to Yahoo.
But, the triumph didn’t come as easy as Yahoo! after getting a hint of the incident had silently deleted the felonious content without acknowledging the plagiarism. This is surely a great win for Indian bloggers and those who have fallen prey to plagiarism.
Via: Desicritics
Image: Kariveppila
