Having said that, the website looks good, it's easy to follow. But it's a business, not vanity publishing.

But where you are wrong is your assertion that other people can do all the work for you and you hide behind your screen reaping the benefit.

If this is a real news site, start acting like a real journalist. Take responsibility. Do your own interviews. I find it hilarious that you are so bitter about the Post yet you are happy to take their content (and pass it off as your own).

If I was an artist and someone made a high quality print of my work then tried to sell it I would be rightly pissed off. This is the same thing.

I could just about stomach it if you made it clear that you had lifted the stuff from the Post but you don't. To most people who don't understand the news business, they will see it as your work (which it isn't). Frankly, any geek could sit behind a screen cutting and pasting. In fact, maybe I'll turn myself into the Sun tomorrow, cut and paste all their stories from their website and pass it off as mine.

On the point of the Post lifting stuff. I've worked in regional papers for many years and I know that nine times out of ten they will try to verify stuff independently. How often does this website do that?

I'm all for new ventures and I applaud innovation, but this just seems like a plain old rip-off to me. This kind of thing does nothing for journalism because it undermines correct practices. I am astonished you run court stories, for example, without verifying any facts.

Get out there and be a proper journalist and stop whingeing about those who are.

Spot the difference game:

Here is a story picked at random … a tweak here and there but basically you've taken the EP's structure and content

The schoolboy accused of plotting to detonate a suicide bomb in Broadmead told a court yesterday that he mixed his interest in radical Islam with a fetish for women’s feet, the Evening Post reports.

Andrew ‘Isa’ Ibrahim said he filmed female students’ feet at City of Bristol College and searched the internet for pictures of Hollywood star Keira Knightley’s feet.

The 20-year-old told Winchester Crown Court he was interested in the political side of radical Islam, but did not condone terrorism. He said he researched radical preachers on the net because he felt like a loser and it made him feel bigger.

A suspected Bristol terrorist has told a jury how he mixed his growing interest in radical Islam with a fetish for women's feet.

Andrew Ibrahim admitted filming the feet of fellow students at City of Bristol College on his mobile phone and searching the internet for pictures of film star Keira Knightley's feet.

The 20-year-old from Westbury-on-Trym, who changed his name to Isa when he converted to Islam, said it was the political side of Islam which interested him – but insisted he did not condone terrorism on civilians.

However it's a bit of a straw man argument, as I've never heard of anyone claiming that they do own the news.

People and organisations can, however, own intellectual property, and I suspect this is what the Evening Post was talking about.

Whether writing a brief summary of someone else's work actually infringes their rights is debatable, and I personally doubt it.

However, the fact that we are talking about a news story is irrelevant. It could just as well be a novel, an essay, a movie script or any other piece of writing. People do own what they write.

By the way, if the Post's "news" is actually copy and pasted press releases, why don't you just copy and paste the press releases yourself?