I know we create quality content here on PCMech, but I would hope that, aside from being useful to the readers, it may inspire others to do the same. What I would NOT hope to inspire somebody to do is take the lazy-ass approach and swipe content from PCMech and post it on their own site. Well, that is exactly what Internet Cafe Business Guide has done, which we have just found.

This is from the About page:

Just call me Travs. I am a web designer and an internet marketer with a knack for entrepreneurship. I used to run an internet cafe and now I switched myself from running one into offering consultations and cybercafe business setup. I’ve decided to make this site to benefit everyone who wants to have an Internet Cafe Business. Instead of serving them one by one,this site would serve as a one stop guide available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Well, Travs apparently has a very BAD sense of entrepreneurship, because this is just not how you do it. If you want to benefit people, send them to PCMech. That’s the ethical way of dealing with site content - THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE.

It takes us a lot of time to create the content on PCMech. This guy is copying entire articles, word-for-word, and posting it on his site. Perhaps that “internet marketer” side of him thinks he can get some search engine traffic with keywords for hardware. Well, how does being called out publically as I am doing right now figure into your marketing plan, Travs?

Re-posting our videos is perfectly fine. But, swiping entire articles, such as here and here? Are you porting directly from our RSS feed right into your site?

So, Travs, here is the proper blogging etiquette. You can post a small little blurb of one of our articles, then you link BACK to the original article, namely PCMech. What you DON’T do is copy/paste the whole thing without so much as my name at the top of it.

I hope you do the right thing.