Can you tell me what project/ICO are you talking about? So we could at least avoid it.
There are a lot of scam ico nowadays that copy whitepapers from the other. I mean all of information were copied from it but do you consider plagriarism if they have the same concept and ideas about it? I mean, it didn't copy the exact words but almost the same content or meaning.
Topic: Plagiarism in Whitepapers, what do you think? (Read 719 times)
I think a lot of cases like this occur. It's certainly become a fairly severe violation of the law because of plagiarizing the work of others. If taken seriously then this field can be brought to it heavier again. the whitepaper will certainly be quite factored in ICO and certainly, this is quite troubling.
Plagiarism is a negative activity that shows that he does not have creativity in his content, this is an action that will harm himself.
Creative and good ideas will certainly have a more interesting level and results will be a satisfaction especially about the whitepaper.
Creative and good ideas will certainly have a more interesting level and results will be a satisfaction especially about the whitepaper.
Plagiarism of whitepaper is a common practice of scam projects. If an investors will not thoroughly study and research about the whitepaper of a project and its possible competitor. Then more likely they will be scammed. That's why before participating in an ICO, the investors need to do study and research.
The WP should be the main building block for the business. If they can't even do that right then you have a lot to worry about...
This is not suprising anymore since most of the ICO's are scam. What do you expect with scam project, almost evetything there is also fake and copied from other sources. The sole purpose of scam is just to convince investors and earn money. They don't mind of the content of their whitepaper.
When researching ICOs for investing, since it is your money that is involved it is good to always dig deeper and that involves carrying out a plagiarism test on the whitepaper, a reverse image search on the project team to find if there are any existing materials with the same pictures or documents in order to avoid getting scammed.
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Outside cryptos, plagiarism is a very serious offense and crime and is punishable with adequate measures. It is common in cryptos that new devs copy other old project whitepaper and don't even bother to modify or edit it to complement their own project. This should be taken seriously.
A lot of ICOs just pay random idiots on websites like fiverrr.com and freelancer to write their whitepaper, these people don't understand the depths and intricacies of the project, leading them to search for this information online. Unfortuntately there isn't much information available online, meaning the less creative writers will start to plagiarize the little material they have.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
I also encountered quite a few projects with similar whitepaper and not much special. I think that these projects probably think investors will not spend time reading WPP so they do not focus on creating a serious WPP. The other WPP copying projects I will not appreciate. Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
in my opinion if a project has a plagiarism, it is indicated as a scam, because where there might be the same project from the explanation side and the existing roadmap
If a project copypasted its whitepaper, then for me it is scam. Whitepaper is the most important thing for me when i analyze projects.
A lot of ICOs just pay random idiots on websites like fiverrr.com and freelancer to write their whitepaper, these people don't understand the depths and intricacies of the project, leading them to search for this information online. Unfortuntately there isn't much information available online, meaning the less creative writers will start to plagiarize the little material they have.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
This is so inevitable because many projects are just copy and paste... with everyone claiming to be best and sometimes first. Hardly new projects coming with unique products again.
So many ongoing and upcoming ICOs find it really difficult to have a unique product thereby end up copying others and surely there will be plagiarism when the product is not originally their idea.
As a writer (and former student) any kind of plagiarism bothers me. 
I don't care if it's the same group writing for multiple projects, they need to present unique content. That's not to say they can't get guidance from an outline but definitely use your own words and convey the true voice behind the company!
I like what beej said too:
It would make me think twice about investing in them because if they're cutting corners with a fundamental piece of information, what else are they being cheap with?
I don't care if it's the same group writing for multiple projects, they need to present unique content. That's not to say they can't get guidance from an outline but definitely use your own words and convey the true voice behind the company!
I like what beej said too:
If plagiarism is clearly that noticeable then it's contents can be questionable.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
It would make me think twice about investing in them because if they're cutting corners with a fundamental piece of information, what else are they being cheap with?
If plagiarism is clearly that noticeable then it's contents can be questionable.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
Maybe we can put this as an early immediate indication of fraud. If it applies
to all ICO whitepapers that have practice copying and editing materials.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
Maybe we can put this as an early immediate indication of fraud. If it applies
to all ICO whitepapers that have practice copying and editing materials.
I think Plagiarism is the new norm to scam people for quick buck. It is challenging to identify good projects - something like Neo, OMG or Startis etc.
If you find some thought being copied. You don't need to continue searching for deep information. Already said it just waste project and maybe it is scam. No one great project do plagiarism so no doubt that's is a shit project. Stay away, there are a lot which good valued token can worth
Usually those project copied or had some plagiarize content in any if their writen information such whitepaper. Big sign of the team will be runaway after getting a huge amount of money through fake ICO sales, scam. After realizing the truth about the project just leave and find some better most. We dont need to do further research and its already clear what indication sbowed up
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
This is basically because they know that people don't normally read the whitepapers of these ICOs and i wouldn't really trust any ICO if they are able to plagiarize the work of another ICO.This is a very bad reputation for those people out there part-taking in such practices. Though, my view on this is that if the team is not serious enough about their idea that's when they may try to fall into this, otherwise if the team has a brilliant idea they would WANT to explain in the whitepaper why is that so, and so the good ICOs won't want the shortcut others might take.
i think recently DADI was caught plagiarizing but that has become a sort of industry norm in crazy ICO bull run which gave birth to never heard of blockchain experts. TRON had a very bad rep regarding its whitepaper. But contrary to popular belief it helped many projects in making $$ even though the plagiarizing news was in public domain. it will take time to amend these shortcomings, untill the situation changing.
If a developer is plagiarizing other projects content then the product is not unique and the possibility outcome would turn into scam. Means only Noob investor will fall into that trap.
When the developers take shortcuts on suck basic things as a whitepaper, it should be a major red flag to anyone considering to invest. Even if sources are mentioned i consider plagiarism anywhere to reflect the work to come in any project. I don't like it, condone it or invest in it.
I think it's great because it exposes that the team should not be trusted. Only in that sense. It's not great that they're doing that, just great that they can easily get exposed. Though I heard Tron plagiarized and it's doing good.
Well, plagiarism is a common thing in making a whitepaper for a company's ICO Project. They commonly copies some on their WP from other failed projects, and some really owned it, failed, and changed the idea and tried another one. Some you might think it is copied, yet due to a lot of ICO projects with the same idea and theme, instances of having the same thought on their whitepapers is highly not doubtful.
Yet with this cases, find an ICO who's whitepaper is original. So you can absolutely feel safe, yet cannot be comfortable that it would be a success.
Yet with this cases, find an ICO who's whitepaper is original. So you can absolutely feel safe, yet cannot be comfortable that it would be a success.
For a weak team, copying the white paper of another project looks very tempting. To create the original requires a lot of creativity and a thorough approach. But on the other hand this makes it possible, when choosing an ICO for the bounty campaign, to properly evaluate the team. Although this will not say anything about the product or value of the service that the project represents
Today I was reading a whitepaper trying to do a product review, it is one of the most popular projects if you take into account the telegram users... and the whitepaper has a lot of plagiarised content 
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
Plagiarism nowadays was very trending in most of the ico project they've just changed or add something to make it not same with the other ico.
I just noticed that several times in different ico bounty campaign actually. However in my idea this is a kind of violation or offense in my way of
thinking only.
I do see whitepaper that seems content on it are from another content. It is not really plagiarism because if you can review the whitepaper, at the end, they are mentioning their resources to come up with a nice and decent whitepaper to attract investors and bounty hunters..
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
This is basically because they know that people don't normally read the whitepapers of these ICOs and i wouldn't really trust any ICO if they are able to plagiarize the work of another ICO.
Damn it is not good at all. That proves that the founder or organization is not enthusiastic about their project. I think I should stay away
Plagiarism in whitePaper is a very serious offence it show the team haven't done their due diligence and if they can sit down to determine the purpose and how to achieve a project they definitely not worth investing in. It's very simple.
Plagiarism in a whitepaper is inexcusable in my opinion. How do they expect people to take the project seriously if they cant even take themselves seriously. A half arsed whitepaper makes a half arsed project.
Atleast this is a constructive way of trying to fix the issue.
SUGGESTION: Contact the project moderators, update them about the error and its implications, tell them your academic qualification and you are willing to correct their plagiarized whitepaper and present it into the required standards in exchange for equity/Utility tokens. (Bounty)
Atleast this is a constructive way of trying to fix the issue.
Today I was reading a whitepaper trying to do a product review, it is one of the most popular projects if you take into account the telegram users... and the whitepaper has a lot of plagiarised content
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
This is why we need educated people like you to help blockchain projects succeed, Understand this are start-up projects and they may have limited resources to lay out everything to top quality standards, The founders may have quality very bright idea about how to change the world but doesn't have human resources to help in documenting the project - this is where you step in.
SUGGESTION: Contact the project moderators, update them about the error and its implications, tell them your academic qualification and you are willing to correct their plagiarized whitepaper and present it into the required standards in exchange for equity/Utility tokens. (Bounty)
This is what we do during bounty hunting
we help blockchain projects succeed.
This is one of those reason most government don't like this crypto business. There are no law that govern or punish people who commit such criminal acts thus it will make this kind of crime reocuring which consequencely deter legit investors from investing in legit any good project. plagiarism of white paper is not and never a good thing, and yet check their bounty programs rules you will notice how ridiculous it is.
Today I was reading a whitepaper trying to do a product review, it is one of the most popular projects if you take into account the telegram users... and the whitepaper has a lot of plagiarised content
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
Usually that would be one of scam indicators to me. I'd stay clear of it.
This is a very wrong act, this is done through the stealing and publication of another author's content creations either visual, writing thereby presenting theses contents as one 's own.
coming to the issue of the whitepaper plagiarism , this should be a unique content presented in a writing form, with technical illustrations of how a specific project is going to execute. It explains how the team behind the project is credible and reliable while they try to convince the individual investors. it is very ok to reference an author's when we write at least no man is an Island.
coming to the issue of the whitepaper plagiarism , this should be a unique content presented in a writing form, with technical illustrations of how a specific project is going to execute. It explains how the team behind the project is credible and reliable while they try to convince the individual investors. it is very ok to reference an author's when we write at least no man is an Island.
Maybe you can't find plagiarism in many whitepapers but you can easily see most are copy of each other. Some projects even copy the ann thread, graphics etc.
It certainly seems that there is no longer any concern for plagiarism. I saw plenty of it myself when I was a student and had to work with team members. I would catch other members of the team straight up plagiarizing off the internet with no repercussions.
The norm today is to use existing copy - whether a whitepaper or something else - as a template with a few changes made to personalize it. I would certainly say this a giant grey area and crosses over to plagiarism. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much that can be done about it.
The norm today is to use existing copy - whether a whitepaper or something else - as a template with a few changes made to personalize it. I would certainly say this a giant grey area and crosses over to plagiarism. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much that can be done about it.
just dont invest in something then if you think its plagiarized
Today I was reading a whitepaper trying to do a product review, it is one of the most popular projects if you take into account the telegram users... and the whitepaper has a lot of plagiarised content
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
I see a lot of ICOs doing this, some which are real projects, but it definitely should raise questions about the project and the team behind it.
Plagiarism is an indication of scam due to the fact that there is no
originality in the content of the white paper.This singular act if detected
should be a deterrent to subscribing to such platforms they may never mean
well for for innocent prospective subscribers.Hence, desist from such ICOs once
plagiarism is discovered for this is a very awful thing to do.
originality in the content of the white paper.This singular act if detected
should be a deterrent to subscribing to such platforms they may never mean
well for for innocent prospective subscribers.Hence, desist from such ICOs once
plagiarism is discovered for this is a very awful thing to do.
Plagiarism in Whitepapers content is normal as long as they are different project, but much better if the whitepaper of one project is unique to catch more attention of many readers specially those real investors.
I was very worried that my paper was completely different from the rest, I copied it several times, and now I am copying it, now I understand that it is necessary to write as it is and do not try to be like.
Now I'm calm.
Now I'm calm.
I think this has been happening is one is getting punished. Plagiarism is not a serious crime and most of us will just turn the other cheek around every time we see something like that. I hate it when an ICO copied a whitepaper including the spelling errors and wrong grammars. I don't speak perfect English but I know when it sounds different. They should at least hire someone who can do the editing. No wonder there are ICO's who fail and ICO's who sold more than they can offer.
it's fine to plagiarise white paper thus most of the coin's never deliver what inside the white paper perhaps the one who copy it can work it out.
NO. It will never be fine to plagiarize. It's just like doing a bad thing for a good purpose, it is still bad and you can't use your purpose as an excuse. If they can work the project out, why couldn't they start working on their own white paper and unique presentation? That makes sense right?Plagiarism in Whitepapers by crappy ICOs/altcoins is common these days. But, it's not really Plagiarism if the author mention other whitepaper as source/reference 
True. 
Plagiarism in Whitepapers by crappy ICOs/altcoins is common these days. But, it's not really Plagiarism if the author mention other whitepaper as source/reference
it's fine to plagiarise white paper thus most of the coin's never deliver what inside the white paper perhaps the one who copy it can work it out.
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
You're absolutely correct! Although this project that I was reading has a huge user base, so I assumed the whitepaper would've been of good quality.
It's worrying, and I think the way forward is to try and educate people so they don't fall for these scams as easily.
If only all investors read every project's white paper they're into investing, maybe chances of being scammed will be narrowed. It's every individual's responsibility in the first place
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
You're absolutely correct! Although this project that I was reading has a huge user base, so I assumed the whitepaper would've been of good quality.
It's worrying, and I think the way forward is to try and educate people so they don't fall for these scams as easily.
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
Today I was reading a whitepaper trying to do a product review, it is one of the most popular projects if you take into account the telegram users... and the whitepaper has a lot of plagiarised content
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
As a university student this shocks me, as something similar in academia would result in expulsion from the university.
My short video rant here: https://youtu.be/JmVAyC-XFSA
What are your thoughts on this?
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