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Remember the second Ice age movie? There was a character that was prepared to sell one of his family members for a grape. He went throughout the movie trying to sell people things they did not need and had no scruples about how he did it or what he said to do it.

It may have been hilarious to watch him "operate", but the sad reality is that there are real people like that. People that would do anything or say anything to make a fast one and its scary because sometimes its hard to see whether or not they are being sincere or not. I think, all we can do in the end is keep our eyes open and try not to fall for any of their schemes, as well as try show others their true colors.

I read, and write down important, or should I say areas I think are important, and if I don't understand something, I note it down as well and then research it until I understand. I am currently finishing up with my project management diploma and it was entirely done on the net using different aspects like imagery, flash, and text. I tend to learn things faster that way it seems

I have seen a few, to be honest, but from what I can tell, Internet Marketers don't study actual marketing if they decide to get certified. I say this because my training had nothing to do with real marketing, and left me a little upset because marketing is an interesting subject for me.

With internet marketing you help create and optimize a site, work on ways to get backlinks to the site or product, and try show people why the product you market is the best and should be bought instead of others.

Surely, before you decide what your whole campaign is going to be about, you first have to do market research, product evaluations either by experts or visitors that come to your site, you work on promotions, ads and videos etc. as well as press releases and a whole host of other things.

With that many similarities, don't you think that anyone that decides to be an internet marketer, would do better if they knew the fundamentals of actual marketing itself?

LOL that would be perfect I think. But some have a total disregard for that message in any case. I see it almost daily, depending on what search I am doing on Google. For instance, I see so many people taking advantage of material that is by rights not allowed to be copied that can get you into a heck of a lot more trouble than copying and pasting someone else's content, and no matter what the repercussions, they keep at it. It makes me wonder just how far copyright law actually goes to protect someone when they create a service or product for the net.

I do watermark my images as well. I use my real name, written in Japanese Font, and then put that over crucial areas in my artwork. When it is almost transparent, you can still see it, but to remove it would destroy the art piece itself.

An interesting thing I did see though, was on Mashable. Two of the posts I read from them were only able to be copied if you took a screenshot of it all. They had taken their post and created a slideshow out of it. The only area you could copy from was these intros and they had almost no info on them. Unfortunately, it also makes things harder for those of us, like me, that use these blogs as a reference. I was looking at info on Google+1, and thought I would add their post as reference in another thread I was writing. I always make sure that whoever I reference from, they get a link back to their site/s. So why can't someone else adopt the same attitude?

Have fun and we'll see you in a week.

lol. ok So what was the funniest post you have ever read (that wasn't a joke obviously )

I' not terribly patient, I have to admit. I've been doing a lot of reading and have consequently tried everything. With that many urls indexed alone in the sitemap surely it should give them something to go on. lol

Part of me used to think that, you were not really successful as an artist unless someone tried or in fact did steal your work. If you could control the situation, then it would not be that bad to have one person take your work. But many? It's really hard to believe that there are that many people in the world that would do this. I think I can now understand a little more why search engines like Google create the algorithms they do (seriously). But it's all too little too late. Because I think its about the person themselves, as you said, and not the work they do, the fame they're seeking, or the money they want.

This happens a lot everywhere, and I have been trying to figure it all out with no real success. I realize that it could be as problematic as spamming. Especially when people use their "content" to spam people.

I don't know, I'm hovering around the feeling that they should all be tarred and feathered, but maybe there really is an underlying factor to why they're doing it all.