Great Internet Sleepover

In responding to Tom Moody on Paddy Johnsons Blog artfagcity
http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/09/12/the-great-internet-sleepover-2/#comments
it became obvious that appropriated content was preferred over original content. Duh.
What did that have to say to original content. That it was naive to believe that they could
find something that was theirs.