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Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto – Craig Wright accused of plagiarism

A Medium user compared Craig Wright's work with science authors and found way too much similarity. According to the user, the
A Medium user compared Craig Wright’s work with science authors and found way too much similarity. According to the user, the self-proclaimed creator of bitcoin, Craig Wright, did not even change the large parts of the stolen texts.

A pseudonymous author, ‘PaintedFrog,’ posted an article on Medium highlighting the similarity between Craig Wright’s work and other authors that wrote the same thing before him. While comparing the writings of some computer science masters with the works published by Craig Wright, Frog found that the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin didn’t even change the large parts of the stolen texts.

Craig Wright’s work has texts from Hillary E. Pearsons.

The pseudonymous author found that Craig Wright’s work has texts from notable work by Hillary E. Pearsons, holding the name ‘Liability of Internet Service Providers, which was published in 1996. The work highlights different situations of ISP’s dealing with illegal content created by the users and counter-parties. There is no doubt that Craig has substantial knowledge about how computer networks operate as he successfully defended a dissertation for LLM in International Commercial Law University back in 2008. 2008 was also the year when bitcoin was under development by the Satoshi Nakamoto team.

“Plagiarism is more serious than people think.”

Craig Wright had earlier said that plagiarism is more serious than most people think and is a criminal breach of the copyright act and is also a criminal fraud. The pseudonymous author in his post wrote that the work is heavily plagiarized, and much of the text is taken — both in paraphrase and verbatim from other works with no credit given.

According to the post, Craig’s original work contains 58 paragraphs, and it seems like he took 45 of them, with 25 being copied almost word-by-word. The self-proclaimed bitcoin creator did not give any credit to the original authors. Craig Wright right also took information for his work from another article by Pearsons, titled ‘Intellectual Property and the Internet: A Comparison of the U.K. and U.S. law.’ Some other authors that Craig Wright copied information from Ronald Mann and Seth Belzley, titled ‘The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability.’ According to the post, Wright had several references to these people in his text. He was copying the footnotes from their work, without giving any proper backlinks.

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