Isn't overall spamming against the forum rules (not just copy/pasting) and punishable? That response made by OP is pure spam. Before OP's post, someone made a post implying France won the world cup, but OP intentionally chose a post from July 10 to come up with a zero value spam post for the sake of posting. But with OP's post history, a permanent ban might be a bit harsh, IMO.
Bumping old threads with something constructive is fine, but it's high time users start getting banned for off-topic replies rather than only replies getting thrashed.
Yeah, spamming is against the forum rules, but I'm not sure why OP was banned. Yes, he made this stupid shitpost, but it doesn't looks that he was doing it continuously, I think it was enough just to delete this post. There are many worse one-liner spammers who deserved to get ban.