Carnewschina: Carbuzz Is A Bunch Of Thieves
Popular wisdom says that China is a bunch of thieves with utter disregard for intellectual property. Any good, or even half good idea gets immediately stolen in China. In a man bites dog twist on the story, an American website is being accused of serial thievery of made-in-China intellectual property. According to Beijing-based Carnewschina, the Rockville, MD, site Carbuzz.com “systematically steals my content for their China-tag. CarBuzz.com steals my pictures, my information, but does not link back to me.”
Tycho de Feyter, owner of Carnewschina, freshly minted father of an 8 pounds boy and occasional TTAC contributor is mad as hell and won’t take it anymore. He wrote a blog post in which he unmasks the egregious extent of “Carbuzz’s thievery.” Really disconcerting and utterly bad form: When called on the carpet, Carbuzz apologizes, swears that things will change, and then does it again.
Carbuzz, please be advised that Tycho is not your average Chinese carblogger. He is a redheaded, fiery Dutchman who I would not want as my enemy. He is already gearing up for a major counterattack:
“After checking some other stories on their site I found out CarBuzz doesn’t steal just from us but from many other websites as well, more on that soon later…”
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Begun, the Clone War has.
Oh dear. Hope this doesn't turn into 'TheOatmeal vs Funnyjunk'. That one is spiraling out of control right now...
Probably an appropriate time then to ask when you are going to give us the final chapter in the BMW 'M' saga? There's a couple of BMW enthusiasts in my office who've been waiting with bated breath for it....
Good for Tycho, although I'm not sure anything really can be done about it legally. And I'm not sure that that website has any reputation at all. On the other hand what is ‘TheOatmeal vs Funnyjunk’ about? Another blog war type thing?