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Well, as long as it's not a blatant copy and significantly different (by 70% or more), I don't think it could be considered plagiarism.

Perhaps you misundersood the part (bolded) where I said:

I apologise if I was misconstrued, but I wasn't suggesting anyone should take a single article and re-write it. Rather, I was suggesting that one could quickly read a number of articles and consolidate the information one would glean into their own, unique article. Sort of like how I suspect most people write articles, anyway - including authors of most of the PLR out there.

If it was outright plagiarism I wouldn't be proposing it; I've had my content ripped and blatantly re-written, and it annoys me as much as the next person, for a number of reasons. But if you actually believe it's still plagiarism to take ideas or inspiration from multiple articles/sources and consolidate it in an original way, in a fresh, new, unique article... well, that's your opinion (and, respectfully, I'd argue that's all it is, too) - one I wouldn't agree with, myself.

In that case, perhaps one should be asking oneself if the PLR content one buys is itself plagiarised, what with the strong likelihood of the author having taken inspiration from other, existing articles on the 'net, or from books, magazines or wherever.

Also, what if I were to take some PLR I've bought, re-write and publish it, and then lay claim to the ideas, concepts or explanations therein, myself? Would that be grounds on which for me to accuse anyone else re-writing the same PLR, in their own words, as having plagiarised my content? Who is to say whose content they used for as a basis for their re-written article?

Run a search on Google for practically anything. See if you can't find a handful of articles within the first 5 pages or so that tackle the same subject, in the same (or a similar) way, from the same (or a similar) angle. Perhaps every website owner should be filing a civil suit against the next because their content happens to bear some resemblence (no matter how loose) to one's own.