No one seems to understand, no one seems to care and frankly I'm sick of it. User generated content, plagiarism, copyright infringement and spam are destroying the publishing industries and the hopes and dreams of aspiring poets, novelists, artists, musicians and those who build their businesses promoting and lifting up the creative minds of the world and nothing is being done to stop it.

This attack on creativity is coming from three sides with artists trapped in the middle. First there's user generated content websites-- most of them owned by multinational corporations with billions of dollars in their pockets. These "businesses" exist by getting their users to write, upload music, upload video and post pictures without paying those who post or those who create that content. This, my friends, is the NAFTA of the publishing industries-- the ultimate way to "earn" Billions of dollars without having to pay honest wages, or for that matter, any wages, to the persons who work and create the content with the net result being that advertising rates are driven down for the entire industry. And to add insult to injury, a huge amount of the content found on user generated sites is stolen content that almost never includes attribution unless of course the form of attribution is something called hot linking which is the theft of Internet bandwidth.

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