As a writer, I've had a lot of my own work plagiarized. It's a serious blow to the pride, and something that has always made me furious. Why should I work hard on writing something that others enjoy, that has an emotional impact on them, when someone else is just going to take it and claim it as their own? I've made people cry over things I've written as often as I've made them laugh. What's even worse, though, is that many people and many organizations don't take plagiarism seriously. I believe in serious repercussions for stealing someone's work and attempting to pass it off as original. Banning is a funny thing, because internet and forums, but I see loss of artistic credibility as a very serious thing. I'm glad to see others taking a harder stance on stuff like this. At least the individual in question didn't win, if I read the comments here correctly. It's a bad day when we start seeing theft rewarded.