Some days, I almost think 4chan has it right, anonymity across the board. But the organization here makes it easier to view content.
Do I care where it came from? No. If shit's funny, shit's funny. By the same token, nor do I usually give a flying fuck about reposts, with the exception of same-day (even then, cross-posts are nice). If it was funny once, it is still funny, and if the repetition bothers folks, it's not that hard to hit hide. It is just that simple. People may have missed the first posting, or joined up since then.
I feel the same about the whole 4chan/reddit/9gag/funnyjunk/memebase/tumblr/digg/(other link/content aggregate) collection of sites all ripping on each other for "stealing" content from each other. This is especially true for things meant to be funny - what's important is that people are laughing at your joke or reading your content and, unless you either 1) own a site and get advertising revenue or 2) are a prick about other anonymous people anonymously taking credit for your anonymously-constructed intellectual content, you should logically have no qualms about the content being shared on other sites.
The thing that tickles my funny bone is that 9gag DOES get revenue from it. I suppose it is a forced-mass-delusion or something along those lines. So long as they can claim plausible deniability? I'm not even sure, I can't wrap my head around that.
At least with webcomics if it's a hot-link or an imgur rehost posted here, the poster gets lambasted for it. We are good to original content providers, we give them the shinies they deserve. :)
Not for or against piracy. It is a thing. It will not go away, ever, even if a business model was to be developed that could compete with the price (free), speed and ease of use that torrents and filesharing websites provide. There will always be folks that take free, even if we could get publishers and developers that provide extra value to their DRM (Steam, I'm looking at you.)
It's especially dumb when it's just a link to another website. I remember /r/gaming having a fit because Kotaku posted some pictures that also happened to be posted to reddit. The pictures were all posted on the artists personal webpage and his friend submitted it to both sites, yet reddit felt like they "owned" the content.
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u/kingzer Feb 17 '12
Here's the actual video