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author: "Eric Priezkalns"
published: "2018-01-16T06:00:57+00:00"
modified: "2018-01-12T00:11:03+00:00"
title: "The Weirdest Revenue Assurance Plagiarism Yet"
permalink: "https://commsrisk.com/the-weirdest-revenue-assurance-plagiarism-yet/"
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# The Weirdest Revenue Assurance Plagiarism Yet

Regular readers know I have recently been complaining a lot about [plagiarism in revenue assurance](https://commsrisk.com/plagiarism-in-revenue-assurance/), which is [difficult to stop](https://commsrisk.com/the-plagiarism-goes-on/), and which I thought had reached a peak of inanity when [one plagiarist even copied the cover of a book](https://commsrisk.com/con-artist-copies-cover-of-grapas-ra-book/). But that was before the discovery of the following video on YouTube. Somebody has used automated text-to-speech to create a video that is effectively reading out the content of [the Amazon page for the revenue assurance book written by me and a bunch of other people](https://www.amazon.com/Revenue-Assurance-Opinions-Communications-Providers/dp/1439851506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515713604&sr=8-1&keywords=revenue+assurance). Occasionally the computer-generated voice digresses from the Amazon text to encourage people to buy audiobooks, even though this is not one of them. It may not be illegal to create a video of a machine reading this marketing spiel aloud, but it leaves me speechless…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l\_QRAgo3cI

To be fair, the computer did a better job of pronouncing my name than [Tony Poulos](https://commsrisk.com/author/poulos/) ever has!