A solution to copied content that would make Steemit Explode with cool posts.

There is something missing on Steemit that all other social media sites reward, the easy sharing of third party content. This is what the internet and social media is built on, sharing all the cool stuff you find with your friends.

People want to share tweets, copy cool instagrams, post videos, share music, link images, watch livestreams, and share files, there is no stopping it. Sites that encourage it and make it easy have flourished, sites that ignored the trend have fallen from view. Currently there is a movement by a few people here to actively downvote the posting of just pictures, just youtube videos, or copies of interesting articles from around the internet. This mindset of policing and stopping sharing is counter to every social media site out there. Steemit is designed to be disruptive technology, and should actively encourage and make this kind of sharing easy.

There is a solution. Embed content into a frame in your steemit post with http://oembed.com/

The oEmbed does exactly what is needed for steemit to explode with content. It allows you to embed tons of content from all the big popular social media sites and sharing sites. By embedding content into your post, you give the original author credit\traffic and a link, and you can add your own thoughts to go with it. The plugin has safety in mind as well by only allowing http\s requests, and puts the content into an iFrame to reduce attacks and access to cookies. This appears to work the same way Steemit is already embedding images and youtube videos.

Adding oembed would make Steemit the mashup capitol of the internet.

These are just a few of the sites oembed works with:
Sites: CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, Deviantart.com, FunnyOrDie, Getty Images, Flickr,
Documents: Didacte, Docs, Embed Articles, Embedly, Pastery, Scribd, Sketchfab
Social: Crowd Ranking, Instagram, Meetup, iFixit, Kickstarter, Poll Daddy, Reddit, Vine
Music: MixCloud, Official FM, ReverbNation, Rdio, SoundCloud
Video: Hulu, Ted, Ustream, VEVO, Vimeo, YouTube

https://noembed.com/ is another solution based on oembed. Here is their added value proposition:

oEmbed is nice. Unfortunately, not everything supports oEmbed. Worse, the sites that do support it don't provide a consistent interface. Noembed provides a single url to get embeddable content from a large list of sites, even sites without oEmbed support!

Noembed adds the ability to embed these sites: Amazon, iTunes Movie Trailers, Ars Technica, ASCII Art Farts, Bash.org, Beer Advocate, Clickhole, Duffel Blog, Facebook, GiantBomb, Gist, Github Commit, Gfycat, GlobalGiving, IMDB, Monoprice, Nooledge, Spotify, TED, The Onion, TrailerAddict, Twitlonger, Twitter, Urban Dictionary, Vice, Vimeo, Vine, Wikipedia, XKCD
And these image hosts: CloudApp, Dropbox, Imgur, Instagram, Lockerz, Path, Picplz, Skitch, Twitpic, Twitter, YFrog

Can you imagine the explosion of content if the users could embed things from all these sites into a Steemit post?

There is a paid enterprise version that might be a good whale investment. http://embed.ly
These two tools are open source, and just waiting in github.
https://github.com/iamcal/oembed/tree/master/providers
https://github.com/leedo/noembed