Dave Portnoy's Barstool Sports used sock puppet accounts to avoid copyright takedowns, Daily Beast reports

• The Daily Beast found more than 40 accounts used by Barstool Sports to repost copyrighted material.
• The accounts ripped and posted copyrighted clips embedded and reposted by Barstool, per The Daily Beast.
• It's not the first time the blog has been accused of stealing content in a way that garnered media attention.

Barstool Sports used a group of more than 40 sock puppet accounts to rip off copyrighted content and avoid licensing fees while growing its massive audience, according to a new investigation by The Daily Beast.