I don't have an opinion on what this guy did and whether he should have been stripped, but you're redefining plagiarism pure and simple. Plagiarism is passing

I don't have an opinion on what this guy did and whether he should have been stripped, but you're redefining plagiarism pure and simple. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's ideas or expression of those ideas as if they were your own. And that's it. Plagiarism has nothing to do with whether you benefit from someone else's ideas illegally or unethically. Let's say that there's a competition to write an original novel. I take Moby Dick and change one sentence. Then I submit it with a big warning on the front cover that says: "This novel is Moby Dick with one sentence changed by me." I have violated the rules of the contest perhaps. If I win I maybe benefitted from it. But I have not committed plagiarism -- I did not pass off these ideas as if they were my own. It was made clear whose ideas they were.