Ocean Marketing sparks controversy due to plagiarism accusations

Ocean Marketing is trending now on the Internet! The blogosphere is flooded by dozens controversial debates over the plagiarism practices used by the oceanmarketinginc.com website.

However I do not really understand why such a big scandal involving this specific site??? After a quick check, I noticed that Ocean Marketing is just a modest website featuring a PR3 with Google and charting at the 5,118,048 position in Alexa Rank on Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011.

After all, it seemed somehow puzzling but an Examiner.com blog post entitled “Update: Ocean Marketing makes fatal gaming PR mistake” managed successfully to shed some light in respect to this story. Although the chain of events is pretty long, I am just gonna make only a “short” overview here.

First of all, Ocean Marketing (OM) appears to pick-up articles from high-ranking websites (e.g. Forbes, BizReport, etc) for their blog where they are posted word by word without mentioning the original source. And that is not the only copyright infringement because also OM’s About Us, Services and other pages are plagiarized (examiner.com highlights the original sources in their post).
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Paul Christoforo, the representative/owner of OceanMarketing writes on his Twitter (@OceanStratagy) profile: We are a Premier Social Media Company and SEO Company. Aha, thefore OM is something related to social stuff; now things get clearer. After reading a few tweets I understand that Mr. Christoforo is apparently in the sales business (gaming, electronics products, see e.g. Avenger peripheral controller for the Xbox 360). After the scandal sparked, Christoforo seems to be is a kind of troubles as owner/inventor of The Avenger controller, David Kotkin, decided to not collaborate anymore with Ocean Marketing due to “unprofessional, unprovoked, unforgivable” behaviour. N-Control is the company which produces the Avenger Video Game Controller-an adapter housing the Microsoft Xbox 360 ® controller, helping to improve the situational awareness, accuracy, agility, etc. N-Control and Avenger chose Ocean Marketing Inc. as a third party marketer.

After harsh arguments between Paul Christoforo and other internet users/customers, the situation takes a 180 degrees turn and OM’s owner starts apologizing for his initial inappropriate language outbursts. Overwhelmed by criticism and countless spam emails, Christoforo asks for help from Mike Krahulik (a.k.a Gabe from Penny Arcade) in order to have the scandal halted. But once started, no chance to stop it, the intenet is a large gossip environment and the only factor which solves everything is…the time.

Actually the biggest problem here is that Paul Christoforo and his company (Ocean Marketing) were not able to honor/deliver in time the products ordered by the customers. I do not know how but Christoforo was quite self confident and got involved in a tough verbal taunt with his clients sending them injurious emails which were subsequently published online and that fact destroyed his reputation (if ever had one). Well said by Dave in his Gamerfront post: “Ocean Marketing: A Study On How To Destroy Your Reputation With Just A Few Emails”