Has anyone used EZA articles to build a site?

I read a thread a day or two ago on duplicate content and a few posts indicated that you could take EZA (or any article directory) articles and build your pages for the site. Obviously if you use that type of content, you have to leave everything intact including the links.

This seemed kind of odd to me, but then I think it is logical. The site would need plenty of back links to get over the duplicate content issues and your site being a secondary resource for that information. But part of the reason for publishing the articles is hopefully someone will take them and republish them. So if you take articles with the correct key words for the site you want to build, would this be possible? Could you drive enough traffic to it to make ANY money if you monetized it with Adsense and or affiliate links?

Has anyone ever done this or something similar? Not sure why this thread got my mind thinking along these line, but the idea seemed interesting to me. So I am interested to know peoples thoughts on it if you don't mind sharing. Good, bad or indifferent, I am interested in all points of view.