Recycled web content

Started by Hybrid Trainer June 14th, 2012 10:38 AM
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Hybrid Trainer

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What's your opinion on sites such as reddit and 9gag who get the majority of their content from other websites? Do you think they're a good source of related information? Or are they leaches who suck all the decent content out of other sites?

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As long as they don't remove the copyright banner (like they did with The Oatmeal's comics, for example) I'm okay - because I'm not the OP, I don't know what they're thinking, but stealing just makes me sad, because I know that's not right but there's not a thing that I can do about it; the internet will be the internet. So it's not leeching so to say but it's just disappointing.

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But once they do remove the copyright banners to the comics, I think some action should be taken, but that's completely up to the artists themselves. Some file DMCA complaints, some don't (The Oatmeal just wrote a couple blog posts stating the fact that his comics were being stolen, Domics complains about it sometimes in new Tumblr posts) so it's up to them to deal with stolen content.

However, if the artist has not explicitly stated that he is aware of this problem, a quick e-mail saying "oh jsyk ur comics are being stolen" should be the farthest you go with that situation.
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Reddit is okay, 9gag is not. Those two aren't the same - Reddit links straight to content. It's a window into a bunch of related websites, and it doesn't rehost any of the content for itself. 9gag however, does. It takes the images and hosts them itself and doesn't necessarily have any attribution back to the main source, which makes it take so much away from the other sites.


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Tsutarja

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If I had to compare a website to Reddit, I would say Digg. Although reddit is more open to the content that gets posted (such as memes and means of trolling) than Digg, Digg is certainly a site that gets its content from other sites.