On Reddit many times I see users swiping photos from news sites, uploading them to Imgur and then go on to generate countless page views which don't help the news organization that paid for those photos in the first place. In fact many times there's not even any attribution.
Also it's not just reddit that does this but in the early days of Wikipedia many entries were scraped together by copying-and-pasting content from other websites without any permission. There are also sites like Pinterest which seem to exist to just swipe photos from other websites.
Hey michaelpinto - I agree with you. BuzzFeed are certainly not the only ones practicing this, but I suppose in this case there is a clear profit motive behind BuzzFeed, whereas a teen swiping a photo can't be as directly connected with one (yes, Reddit/parent company/hosting site would earn revenue that the original author is entitled to).
On Reddit many times I see users swiping photos from news sites, uploading them to Imgur and then go on to generate countless page views which don't help the news organization that paid for those photos in the first place. In fact many times there's not even any attribution.
Also it's not just reddit that does this but in the early days of Wikipedia many entries were scraped together by copying-and-pasting content from other websites without any permission. There are also sites like Pinterest which seem to exist to just swipe photos from other websites.