Okay, I went and read it, and GP appears to be right. The basis for the whole thing is "a little tool to help me scrape the posts of my competitors and publish them to my group on a regular basis" upgraded and offered to others in a SAAS model. Don't get me wrong, the engineering is decent, the marketing is brilliant (if questionable - if you mention that you're exploiting a loophole to message clients, maybe you are actually spamming), and the whole thing is well executed. None of that gets around the fact that this is all built around a tool that literally exists to automate plagiarism.
You are absolutely right, the entire ecosystem facilitates plagiarism. And I don't mean Postio only, Vk.com and all other Russian social platforms do very little to protect copyrighted content. In fact, they do nothing.
However, even in this ecosystem, I tried to do my best to deal with that issue by paying at least some attention to crediting the authors back by means of watermarks and negotiating the conditions upon which their content is taken.
This is the reason I asked to reread the article. Remember, it's the Russian market, and some things that will apply in the global market, simply don't apply there. Whether it's good or bad is besides the point of this article.
Thanks for the raising the question, it's absolutely legit.
