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RE: State of Abuse? I Need a Post Title!
If it is used as intended, sharing memes someone has created, it won't be a problem. I was telling someone earlier I actually like the concept for photography if someone programmed a built in reporting feature for Photo Plagiarism.
The problem is the spam potential when it comes to posting everyone else's work.
I think this is only a temporary problem. In my humble opinion, an upvote sometimes sends a clearer message than a downvote.
The day SMT's are implemented to niche domains, it's the domain creators, the stakeholders that will be whales in their domain. Their upvotes will probably dominate the rewards pool, and their curation will decide whether plagiarism or original content will thrive.
I think copyrights are a bad thing. That being said I think most thing that are posted without mention of the author or even those who mention the authors but are just pure and simple copy paste, I think it's a good thing we down vote them. I would even love to see even better mechanism to counter those kind of post but this isn't because I "believe" in copyrights. I don't think copyrights are useful for humanity. I'm not the only one making this case. Dan posted on the subject already. He posted the first chapter of a whole book on the subject making the case that copyrights are not serving us.
As for looking for post with copyrighted image, I think if it's a post only of those type of images with text then they should be downvoted but otherwise, if there's original text then I don't think they should be downvoted whether or not a link to the original author is provided.