History in (Stolen & Uncredited) Pics

How to get rich on the back of a scuzzy business model.

The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don't pay or even credit. They don't provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs.

They are playing by rules that "old media" and most new media do not. To one way of thinking, they are cheating at the media game, and that's why they're winning. (Which they are.)

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/arch...