# Stolen content...sorta? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 22, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463 "2015-10-22T15:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/1 "2015-10-22T15:42:56Z")
Not sure the best way to approach this, but it seems like the powers that be here should be aware of it. Someone (NOT ME!) has taken a screenshot of an old PSXer post and submitted it to Reddit for mockery, complete with unobscured username: [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/cringepics/comments/3ps3cg/meeting_the_physical_boyfriend_for_the_first_time/) This was from a few years back, when PSXer was really playing up his persona as a pathetic sad sack. He’s dialed that way back since then. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/2 "2015-10-22T15:55:55Z")
You know, I don’t really care what happens in Ethiopia either. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/3 "2015-10-22T16:30:19Z")
I can’t see reddit at work but I’m pretty sure PSXer browses reddit so maybe he did it to himself. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/4 "2015-10-22T16:59:51Z")
I think this falls into the category of accepted fair use for commentary. There’s no attempt to pass content off as the posters own contribution, the same content is available for anyone to read, there’s no personally identifiable information. You post something that anyone can see, and people will comment on it. No harm, no foul. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/5 "2015-10-24T01:16:54Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I think this falls into the category of accepted fair use for commentary. There’s no attempt to pass content off as the posters own contribution, the same content is available for anyone to read, there’s no personally identifiable information. You post something that anyone can see, and people will comment on it. No harm, no foul. I believe you are correct. The only part you are missing is using the minimal portion necessary. But, in this case, the post itself is small enough that you pretty much need the whole thing. Well, that and the type of use. I’m not sure whether it qualifies as commercial or not. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/6 "2015-10-24T01:57:50Z")
that’s an old copypasta. it’s been pasted all over the internet PSXer stole it from another forum ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/7 "2015-10-24T13:13:18Z")
Regardless of the provenance of PSXer’s prose here or on reddit … It’s worth reminding all of ourselves that this isn’t some secret hideaway where only true blue paid-up Dopers can read our nuggets of \. Everything we post here is accessible to every search engine, spy agency, and casual jerk or voyeur on the internet. Forever. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/8 "2015-10-24T14:07:06Z")
PSXer, a victim of stolen valor. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/9 "2015-10-25T22:10:17Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > that’s an old copypasta. it’s been pasted all over the internet > > PSXer stole it from another forum Did he? Or did the other forum steal it from him and use a time machine to post it first? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-content-sorta/735463/10 "2015-10-26T02:35:03Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > that’s an old copypasta. it’s been pasted all over the internet > > PSXer stole it from another forum But what did Bob Dole do? And what does Bo know about it?