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Russia: Most of Media Practice “Copy-Pasting”

Posted 8 March 2010

Countries	Russia
Topics	Internet & Telecoms, Media
Languages	Russian
Special	RuNet Echo

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Russian magazine Kommersant Money published an analytical investigation on plagiarism in online media. It suggests that the majority of media content in Russia is based on “copy-pasting” practice usually done by special software that substitutes original words with synonyms to pass the product as a different article.

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