nickdouglas:

Everything on the Internet Gets Stolen. Here’s How You Should Feel About That.

“I wish emerging sites like Imgur were as thoughtful toward creators. At a ROFLCon talk, I asked Imgur’s founder if he was making any effort to prevent theft or set up some revenue-sharing system like YouTube’s. Not only did he seem uninterested, but he acted like the thought had never occurred, as if he was only vaguely aware of this core use-case of his site.”

I remember this moment. I was so pissed at that guy in that moment. I remember ranting to Whitney about it and she was like, “of course they’d allow users to continue ripping people off. Getting people to visit other websites isn’t in their interests.”