Article copying

I assume this has been tried tested and done thousands of times.
You copy unique articles from websites you like and post them on your own website / blog.

Now my question.
Can you get in trouble for it?
What if you just put the article in quotation blocks and then put a link to the source below?
Anyone here done it?

A content syndication network?

There's a big difference between copying content and referencing an article / paper.

word to word copied content is useless .. in terms of seo.
meaningless software spinned content is useless .. in terms of seo.

There is a reason people pays for unique content