Instead, you need to FIRST "educate" yourself about the keys to success and happiness in relationships. These are not based on how many tattoos or inches on a ruler.

I get the people just want to read the books without having to hear about the OMG PLAGIARISM, but that's never going to happen. I sincerely doubt that Clare doesn't care, because all of the people in these threads talking would have been her supporters. Instead of talking about OMG PLAGIARISM, we'd be the people who…

I think the word you're looking for is schadenfreude.

So it turns out that sock-puppet armies don't buy movie tickets? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

"People need to get over it."

You have better taste than most 12 year old girls?

Damn, is there a doctor in the house to treat that burn?

It was a good thing, and in the end the people who killed it are still there, wandering around the empty threads and bemoaning the fact hat they're Still not King ;)

Two separate, yet related issues. Plagiarism is the act of appropriation, but in itself is not illegal per se. It CAN be a component of copyright infringement, those cases can end up in court and lead to settlements.

Good to know that Cassie Clare is still reliable click-bait. Her fandom_wank threads were the most reliable server-strainers in the community, and always brought the funny to the yard. Good times. Glad to see so many of you here, I've missed you.

Oh Fandom_wank, how I loved thee. I think part of the reason it declined was that some of the mods thought they could take it off JF and monetize it which created a lot of behind the scenes fighting and whatnot. That combined with their over-investment of who-said-what, tracking IPeez (and of course the notorious…

Not just an iPod (which she needed to write moar Draco, dontcha know) but new laptops for her, her room mate and her boyfriend when hers was "stolen".

JK Rowling was accused of stealing a plot line, she was taken to court by the accusing author's estate, and JKR won. It was proven that Clare lifted whole paragraphs verbatim: http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_… - these situations are not remotely similar, starting with the fact that Clare is guilty.

Plagiarism isn't a "law" it's the act of appropriating another author's language/thoughts/ideas and presenting them as your own. It's dishonest and unethical, but not illegal. There is no doubt Clare (or Claire or Judith Rumelt - the other names she writes/wrote under) did this. She lifted whole paragraphs of other's…

This. And the general bullying, real -ife stalking, and rabid online vigilantism perpetrated by her defenders who insist that her plagiarism doesn't count because Draco.

Agreed. It's somewhat hypocritical of Lindy to to bemoan the humanity of paparazzi when she writes a column that is dependent on content they create.