Piracy has been, and probably will always be our bread and butter.
Take a peek inside this book titled ‘Rahasia Jadi Seleb di Blog,’ written by Rulli Nasrullah:
It’s infact a comic strip created by our fellow seleblog Ndoro Kakung. It was mercilessly stolen off ndoroakakung.com, without any permission, obviously. Apparently the book author (under the pen name of Josephine K. Christian) has no idea who made the funny strip, evident to the citation below it:
Sumber: www.blogger.web.id
Quite an irony for a book that goes to an extra length to educate new bloggers not to steal other’s work.
Has anyone ever heard Rulli Nasrullah before? I don’t think she (or he) is a celebrity blogger. I’m guessing that everything the book says was not based on personal experience, but an observations of celeblogger behaviors. Oddly enough, she/he doesn’t know a seleblog as famous as Ndoro Kakung.
This begs the question: is the author really qualified to write any techniques to be a seleblog?
Update (June 3rd, 2008)
The publisher issued an apology regarding to the copyright infringement, which was claimed unintentional.