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G4TV Stealing from Dtoid...and not doing a good job...say it aint so?
CarlostheJackal | 4:51 PM on 03.24.2008 25 comments


Front Page Item on Dtoid on the 20th of this month by Nick Chester is below
http://www.destructoid.com/limited-edition-gta-iv-360-is-kind-of-nice-you-can-t-have-one-76775.phtml

And a page from The Feed on G4TV's website is below
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/683878/GTA_IV_Themed_XBox_360_Is_Sweet.html

Now granted the articles are different and they both quote the same source but what took G4TV four extra days to steal this from Dtoid. Now I know if there is a fire some where in your town, at some point there will be a report on all your local news stations right? Ok so one station breaks the story, then like 2 others pick up on the breaking story from the original report and they begin their report, now somehow there is one station in town that still does not know about the fire. They hear about it lets say 4 days later, how do they come to the decision to air a story about a fire that was 4 days ago that every other station in town has reported on and still act like it is new news? Even if they are just reporting in case there are people that only watch their station I can understand they want to get that news out there for those people but that does not explain a 4 day difference in the report does it. I would think that they could at least pay someone to listen to the police scanner or watch other news stations to see if they missed anything but it seems like G4 does not understand this concept. Can any one shed some light on this for me because I do not really understand how this happens on today's internet, I mean surely Dtoid pays someone to surf the web all day and hit sites and see what other people are reporting on right? I mean the least they could do was hit Digg or something. Help me out here someone.



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EternalDeathSlayer's Destructoid Blog
You've got to be shitting me...
Jetsetlemming's Destructoid Blog
How is that stolen from Dtoid? Just because it's on the same subject matter? O_o; Just because one internet blog writes on a topic does not mean no other can. The articles are entirely different, and they even use different pictures.
Christ.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
For starters they both cited the same site as their article. I guess G4 waited a few days to report. And every site reports on redundant things. I see the same thing on Kotaku, Dtoid, and other sites every day.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
Well I'm glad I wasn't the only one wondering what the hell was going on.
Anus Mcphanus's Destructoid Blog
Slow news day or just slow news reporters?
Eschatos's Destructoid Blog
I'd say a combination of both. That, and PLAGIARISM.
godkow's Destructoid Blog
Wait G4 has a website? They must have stolen the idea from Dtoid!

I hate everything.
Redzie's Destructoid Blog
They were too busy airing reruns of Cops and Cheaters to notice Dtoid.
ZServ's Destructoid Blog
I cant believe I read this crap.
Aerox's Destructoid Blog
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I cant believe I click tinyurls.
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Damn tinyurl.
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I can't believe it's not butter.
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I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
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