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Im all for content aggregation(I mean look at the site we are all using here :P) but attribution is the key, and really it would seem that linking to the content generators would really help both parties out. Im not sure why they wouldnt want to do so?

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Because then you could bypass them for each subsequent The Oatmeal comic by just going to The Oatmeal.

I'm wondering why someone hasn't done a tineye-dmca-sending mashup to help control these issues..

An example search from tineye of oatmeal images (almost two pages worth): http://www.tineye.com/search/657460f93292f13484a028f4828b838...

The TinEye search didn't succeed in capturing FunnyJunk. Assuming The Oatmeal's artwork is still up on FunnyJunk, this implementation wouldn't work, but it's a clever idea.

But Hacker News is not coping the content, it is linking. You need to go to the creator's site to actually read the article. This example is if HN was coping the whole article and removing all author / source names and links.

That's pretty much what viewtext.org does on my Android HN app.

You remove the author attributions and where it came from?

No.

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