He's ripped ideas off lesser-known companies like FareCast.com, corrected me on the pronunciation of China's up-and-comer Qunar.com (so much for my Mandarin lessons), and can quote Expedia's customer conversion rates.
Indeed, a lot of Slide's success has just been the result of doing a better job ripping off ideas from competitors like RockYou.
Don't think that Konchalovsky limited himself to ripping off ideas and images from The Wizard of Oz.
The latest is Aaron Greenspan, who says he came up with a Harvard networking website before Facebook and before ConnectU, whose creators are currently suing Zuckerberg for ripping the idea.
In his craving for fame and fulfillment he dumped his family, bullied his friends, ripped off ideas and lied about his past.
When you're watching television and a terror plotline comes up, do you jot it down — a reverse of the practice of police procedurals that rip their ideas from the headlines?
"People were always ripping off our ideas," he maintained.
Felix was in his element, sketching out ideas, ripping out pages, throwing things across the room, telling outrageous stories about how all American distributors were owned by the mob and were really in the paper pulping business.
WHAT is remarkable about all this is not that network television resorts to ripping off successful ideas from its competition or its own past but that it can do it so quickly.
He said he had heard from several colleagues who wanted him to pursue legal action against Fox, but he had concluded he had little chance to win and so, he said, "Why tie everyone up all summer?" Some reality producers charged Fox with setting the standard for ripping off reality ideas.
