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> but udemy got videos off of pluralsight, uploaded them to their own servers, and are then selling them off as udemy's own courses.

You are confusing things here. A Udemy user took some content from Pluralsight and published the content on Udemy. Where Udemy is in the wrong is in not taking the content down and banning the teacher from their platform.

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What would be intriguing is if Udemy is actually responsible, and just using ghost accounts...

I certainly don't know enough about the site to say definitively one way or another, but I wouldn't be surprised. This sort of scenario reminds me of Airbnb taking customers from Craigslist [1] or Uber employing "ghosts" to fuck with competitors (cancel rides and poach drivers) [2]. Of course there's no evidence of Udemy doing anything this shady, it just wouldn't be outside the realm of what some tech companies have been up to lately.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-harvested-craigslist-t... [2:]