Giant Bombcast 544 and 545 - Filip Miucin plagiarism stories

"What are you gonna do? Find more examples of me plagiarizing?"
-Filip Miucin, probably

[@mrjohndoeism]

Jason’s sixth grade plagiarism is amazing

[@RandomShinigami7]

Thank you for uploading this. I've only ever heard the Giant Beastcast version of this whole debacle. I do think the Beastcast had a more interesting talk though, they just felt more "informed" if that makes sense. That and Dan was absolutely furious.

[@ErrEff]

Got the episode number(s)?

[@RandomShinigami7]

ErrEff 168 and 169. Or better yet, here’s a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH6sfKWoprCaes0

[@Dezmixbe]

RandomShinigami7 I agree. One of the few times Dan seems genuinely outraged at another human being and it was amazing

[@LexFilm]

It's about ethics in game journalism

[@PeterTeal77]

I like that their entire take on it is "poor IGN" and scoff at the statements by the guy who was actually stolen from.

[@BunnLilah]

I'm confused how you got that from this video unless you think Miucin is the innocent guy? He's the one who stole from that Boomstick Gaming channel. People put Miucin's reviews into Google and found tons of stuff copied directly from forum posts and such.

[@PeterTeal77]

@@BunnLilah I was being sarcastic (to the detriment of my point apparently). It bothers me that their focus was almost entirely on the victimhood of their non-miucin IGN colleagues, and not the youtuber who was stolen from.

[@tylerblair318]

I remember thinking at the time that they should have fired the guy that stole from the KZbinr, then paid the KZbinr what the other guy was going to make, and compensate him with a link to his channel and just use his video as the review for whatever level of compensation he would be ok with. Do a statement saying plagiarism is not okay under any circumstances with multiple members of the staff signing a statement, and scrub his other work from the site. You'd help the smaller KZbinr, clean your hands from the shithead, clear your staff of any wrongdoing (they didn't do anything but you get rid of the ammo for trolls), don't have any other stolen shit on your site, and you don't have to change the score/go about hiring someone else to review it, potentially giving it a lower score and hurting the developer as well. IGN isn't smart enough to do that, but that's what any smart publication would do as someone who has worked in publications since high school.