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How was that feature supposed to work concerning copyright? "Scrape random images off the internet without the site's or the user's consent and upload them to a

• msla 9y ago
  > How was that feature supposed to work concerning copyright? Somewhere between "Better to ask forgiveness than to get permission" and "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" You know, the usual response to copyright laws on the Internet. As an addendum, a nontrivial number of people think copyright laws are about plagiarism: http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/ http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/ (Copyright laws have nothing to do with plagiarism. Acknowledging whose copyright you violated does nothing to help you. Plagiarizing without directly copying is likely legal.)
• madaxe_again 9y ago
  The idea was that their customers would tweet a hashtag linked to that campaign/product, and would be willingly contributing content as per the t's & c's of the contest/promo/site.