It's kind of a grey area, part of plagiarism is taking credit for not only just use. It also falls into another grey area of "sharing" in terms of legality.
That being said, I do not approve of this type of no-effort, automated, and repurposing other people's work for profit and is why he is blacklisted from using @buildawhale promotional services. Unfortunately, there are a lot of other bots that will be happy to promote it.
"Unfortunately, there are a lot of other bots that will be happy to promote it."
The 65 rep would appear to be proof positive of that.
This is actually worse than just posting empty posts and botting them up, because it's theft of content too.
Given the amount of organic votes most post get (next to none), I have to wonder why anyone would bother to even post anything but placeholder content at all, presuming they of course want the rewards.
"it's theft of content too."
False, permission has been fully granted by the creators. Those are Youtube embeds that the creators have full control over. If you look at what is actually being posted to the blockchain you'll see that they are literally just URLs.
Let us see your written permission for use of copyright.
"This reasoning, however, is problematic. It is problematic because now the embedded video is appearing right on your online article or website. This is similar to embedding a picture or image that belongs to someone else."
"In the case of a picture or image, you must first get permission from the owner of the image, unless the image is public domain. You should also attribute all images back to their original site (i.e. site you got the image from) and content creator/owner."
LOL there is a 'Share' button below the video providing me a link to use. It's encouraged.
Yea this is it, my view too.