We have received multiple requests to bring to the public eye this particular Singapore youth forum (www.forums.sg club.com) in light of its blatant copying/ pasting of a large quantity of articles from various SPH owned websites( including AsiaOne, Edvantage, The Straits Times and ZaoBao) without obtaining proper permission regarding their electronic reproduction.
It is particularly serious as this has been going on for years without the said forum having received as much as a verbal censure or monetary fine, yet others such as a local psychology news blog and Mr Daniel Ong (founder of 12 cupcakes) were subjected to unjustifiably heavy penalties for publishing a considerably smaller number of SPH written articles. Not forgetting even Yahoo got sued for similar violations. You can read about them in the links provided below:
Greysteppenwolf's Singapore Mental Health Blog: There will no longer be full SPH articles on this blog
Singapore's SPH sues Yahoo! in copyright row
SPH demands payment from local SME Twelve Cupcakes from sharing stories and interviews written about them
For allowing such online theft of SPH's property to proceed for the longest while unchecked on his forum, the owner must be taken to task.
Here are his personal details:
Mr James Lim K Y ( he goes by the online nick Maverick)
Email address: jameslim@sgclub.com
He previously studied in Victoria Junior College, Cornell University and worked as a project manager at DSTA. He runs a series of other third rate sites which plagiarise celebrity gossip news and offer movie streaming.
To SPH, if you are reading this, we strongly urge you to act accordingly, lest you are seen as playing favourites.
