Matthew Inman never wanted to be a hardass. He just wanted to write his unique webcomic, The Oatmeal, but only months after he started the project, he began to see his work showing up—often with all attribution stripped out—on user-generated content sites like FunnyJunk.com.
He would e-mail site administrators asking them to remove his work, which they did, but users would immediately upload it once more. Playing copyright policeman wasn't worth the time to talk, so Inman “just kind of ignored it for a year,” he told me… until he couldn't ignore it anymore.
His readers kept e-mailing him, pointing out the wholesale copying of his work. Eventually, Inman looked into FunnyJunk more carefully. "I started searching around on their site," he said. "My entire site had been mirrored on FunnyJunk."
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