http://disqus.com/people/b115521cd99b9e7eefd8728e1d945585/enFri, 03 Oct 2008 23:12:51 -0000http://plagiarismtoday.disqus.com/the_myspace_problem/#comment-2834981Excellent article, and excellent points. I wanted to link you to this forum thread on Photobucket's support forums that I came across the other day: <a href="http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=28328" rel="nofollow">http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=...</a> The attitude evidenced by the staff member here I think is a large part of the problem. They assume that since infringement is going to occur anyway, that there is nothing they should do to stop it. That thread right there made me decide to finally drop my Photobucket account. <br><br>I worked in a public library for the better part of the last ten years and I can say that the copy and paste culture is something that is being *taught* to public school kids (at least in my area, and I suspect in many others). Teachers would regularly direct students to go online and find pictures to make their presentations more interesting. Parents would sit at their children's sides while they worked on papers and show them how to cut and paste from online encyclopedia articles or news articles. <br><br>Harsher takedown/shutdown policies on sites like MySpace and Photobucket would help the problem, but I'm not sure if that's even the real root of it.MelissaFri, 03 Oct 2008 23:12:51 -0000