Are you suggesting that FJ itself is doing the work of clipping out attribution from content their users upload? Huh.
I haven't visited FunnyJunk before, but from what I read the users gain reputation/karma or something similar (but not money) by posting original content that gets lots of upvotes/views.
So honest users are motivated to create something high-quality to upload. Dishonest users are motivated to remove attribution from someone else's high-quality work.
I don't think you can pin this part of the problem directly onto FJ (though that's where the site revenue goes).
"Follow the money" assumes there aren't other motivating factors.
actually 'follow the money' is a strategy based on finding the one who gained the most from the certain action, it doesn't have to be 'money' literally.
but yes, I was suggesting that FJ could also generate content by himself, because: 1) why not? 2) he didn't remove all oatmeal material 3) he got all agressive about the idea, I mean, what's the problem, if it was his user's work he could just remove it, take down the karma and that's it.
