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Daily Mail completely rips off our story on Brad Pitts new tattoo


The Daily Mail took our story about a potential source for Brad Pitt’s new tattoo, which we were probably wrong about anyway, and ripped off our idea without even mentioning our site.

I found a map of the New Orleans French Quarter on Wikipedia and compared it to Pitt’s back tattoo. It’s a close match, but not perfect. I mistakenly identified the roads as the levees that failed during Hurricane Katrina and was corrected by a commenter and the post was updated.


The Mail takes the same map we used and sticks it up on their site, never crediting us with the idea. It took me over an hour of wracking my brain and surfing around to find that map, and chances are I was wrong, but this pisses me off immensely.

Here’s our original story on this, published yesterday morning.

Here’s the Daily Mail’s version, published today.

I guess it’s not that big of an ethical breach to steal someone’s idea when your only other option for writing material involves scrutinizing some actress’s knees.

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