I am on a forum there, where the press and talking heads regularly steal comments and material, and publish it as their own.

It is aggravating but flattering.

Sometimes I see the same happen on DU.
Comments we make here work their way to the talking heads' public interviews.
No credit of course.

But the example you give is way over the top.

I see it all the time in sports-related social media. There are Instagram, Facebook, etc. accounts that take the stories of various professional writers, put a negative spin on them, and then pass them off as their own. It's often the rip-off of the same damn article I had just read earlier in the day. I'm sure it happens on sports-related Reddit, too. They often include "insider" in the name of their accounts, to try to pass themselves off as being legitimate. And people slurp up that bullshit like it's a gourmet meal.

Buzzfeed became notorious for churning out their little throwaway articles by scanning Reddit and plucking out popular threads.

It's just something places do as a way of pumping out easy disposable content for clicks.

If you don't want your comment or idea copied don't publish it.

We copy news, sports and weather on DU all day long. That website is stealing content from Reddit and claiming it as theirs.

It's mostly a news aggregator, and people get reamed for not including a link.

Some is, like my semi-original mashups and plays on words, but they are meant to be stolen and shared.

I do, however, rarely post photos, because they go into the internet stock photo machine and AI compost heap. And I'd have to buy back my own work.

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As for DU, they exclude me from staff meetings (I didn't ask to attend) and as for stealth copyright notices, ask EarlG.

I do avoid Reddit like the plague, though the few times I have (accidentally) gone there, I saw only one OP and no replies. Browser? Login needed? I don't care. It's a dump.

I'm just here for the news headlines, for the LuLZ, and to KICK ASS (or other parts)

When she wrote it slash was usually shared among fans as Xerox copies. (Before the Eternal September of the internet there was Kinko's.)

In the late 'nineties I found may people on the internet claiming authorship of the fiction. For my own amusement I challenged some of them. The sensible plagiarists ignored me, but there was one in particular who got quite vehement in their defense. Needless to say this was not my friend.

Now we've got AI and the people who use AI doing the same.

Yay Progress!