I love it when DOA gets all self righteous.
Personally, I think it's obvious to anyone with a reading age of 7 or above that Daft Punk stuff relies incredibly heavily on sampling old funk records. And so what?
Next up, did you know DJ Shadow relies on a lot of samples too?
They credit everybody, they buy the rights, they do interesting stuff with it...
There are bigger crimes in music. (See Timbaland...)