The LAD Bible stealing content?!?

zxxtonyxxz

I was minding my own business yesterday scrolling through the front page of Imgur where I found very funny content which genuinely created a LOL moment as you say. So this morning then I woke up and saw some familiar posts on The LAD Bible's Facebook page. I said to myself "Wait a minute... this was on Imgur last night." They gave no credit to who actually came up with this funny piece of marvelous art and even stole the headline for their own benefit. I don't know how long they have been stealing content off of Imgur users and if they are stealing from there and letting the content off as their own I can't imagine where else they are stealing it from! I have lost all of my respect for The LAD Bible who I used to think were being funny and original and now they are scum to me. Good day Sir/Madame and I hope I have opened your eyes to the truth!

Barry Badrinath

Sooooo, just like most of Boards then?

fullstop

You had respect for the LAD Bible? Really?

tomwaterford

Somebody on the internet stole something :eek:

FunLover18

I don't follow them or pay much attention to the sort of stuff they post but from what I've gathered they're fairly notorious for it.

leggo

The entire internet runs off people stealing **** from Imgur and Reddit. You think these 'journalists' do their own research??!

frozenfrozen

I made this

GLaDOS

It's pretty much their entire business model

eamonnq

I think somebody started a thread about this already.

jamesbere

A click bait site stealing content, well I never!

the evasion_kid

They all steal off each other,joe.ie,fm104,the Lad Bible.then you always get the paddy last who posts it up 2-3 weeks after the others have milked it for views

KERSPLAT!

Send all complaints to ombudsmanoftheinternet@whocares.co.gov.ie

LightsStillOn

So it's kinda like Boards & Reddit then?

speedboatchase

the evasion_kid wrote: »

They all steal off each other,joe.ie,fm104,the Lad Bible.then you always get the paddy last who posts it up 2-3 weeks after the others have milked it for views

Everyone is at it. Unfortunately it's now the only way to make money, aside from paywalls. Have a look at the side-bar on the left of Time's website and tell me if it's any different from the side-bar on the right of the Daily Mail. Everyone is blending into one another.

The Randy Riverbeast

You'll love joe.ie then. Most of the internet is a day or 2 behind reddit anyway.

lawlolawl

"This OP thinks that the LAD bible is stealing content. You won't believe what happens next!"

All these sites are dog**** and they are making the internet crap because utter mongs love them and keep sharing them around to other utter mongs.

The Pheasant2

LADBible has been stealing everything from reddit for ages. Absolute ****e page.

biko

Every single "journo" are scouring the net to avoid having to leave their office and do some real work.

Canis Lupus

I can't think of the specific examples of he top of my head but Boards has had a couple of good/witty/inventive threads on a current event only for WaterfordWhispers to post an article soon after basically nabbing the idea.

TheBiz

They do the same with reddit and tickld, giving credit happens once in a blue moon

colm_mcm

TheBiz wrote: »

They do the same with reddit and tickld, giving credit happens once in a blue moon

Usually after someone calls them out on it.

lawlolawl

"Content aggregator sites" is the technical term i believe.

Lackey

Lyk if u cryd evry time

Birneybau

Ah sure, the Daily Mail does a sh!tload of this AND they're the most visited site in the World. I really hope there are a few high profile court cases to put an end to this Poxy practise but I won't be holding my breath.

Canis Lupus

TheBiz wrote: »

They do the same with reddit and tickld, giving credit happens once in a blue moon

Giving credit doesn't even mean anything. They still basically get all the clicks and the 'likes' It's not like they have to share their internet money with the content creator.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

frozenfrozen wrote:

I made this

I made this

zxxtonyxxz

Coincidence the credited... I think NOT... Your welcome!

Boom_Bap

They normally give the credit in the comments rather than on the main article.

zxxtonyxxz

Boom_Bap wrote: »

They normally give the credit in the comments rather than on the main article.

Go check posts from Sunday and before.

Cienciano

LightsStillOn wrote: »

So it's kinda like Boards & Reddit then?

Reddit creates a hell of a lot of content.

Duggy747

The gaming side of LAD Bible (Gaming Bible?) posted one of my videos from my Youtube channel but gave credit and linked both the Youtube video and my channel, rather than them re-uploading the video to Facebook.

Considering I had to battle with a load of other random FB pages stealing my videos they actually did the right thing.

Facebook is a scourge on facilitating content-stealing.

AnonoBoy

Boom_Bap wrote: »

They normally give the credit in the comments rather than on the main article.

That's like an apology buried on page 21 of a newspaper. It's f*ck all use but they can still say they did it!

FizzleSticks

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Capt'n Midnight

lawlolawl wrote: »

"Content aggregator sites" is the technical term i believe.

How come 9gag haven't been bankrupted for breach of copyright ?
Marking an image as your own can't be legal under any soft of fair use exception.