The bulk of posts are revealing that not many are re-reading and thinking before commenting.
I’m hoping that we can dig into this and come up with some good information as to how we can attempt to solve the scraping issue. Hard to do when so many insist on missunderstanding the original post.
In no way did I read in that that anybody was condoning scraping. Did I miss something? I don’t think so.
Janet’s first post said, to cut a long story short, that most of the scrapers are taking such little bits of content that we’d have a very hard time finding justice through the usual channels. That it wouldn’t be considered by the courts or by the search engines to be copyright infringement.
He went on to say that perhaps only google etal can ever do anything to correct this issue.
He told us that, in his investigations, he found that many of the scraper sites were not directly affiliated with the programs – but were doing some kind of ppc thing that’s over my head. (I kinda get it, but not entirely)
This thread is an invitation for all of us to put our heads together and figure out if there is anything concrete that can be done about the thousands of scraper sites going up daily.
Also said was that all those scraper sites masquerading as directories that are linking to the sites they’ve taking scraps of content from were actually helping us out in the serps. That’s an interesting thought and I would like to know more about this.
I hope I have the facts right, correct me if I’m wrong, please. 
One question that I thought was a good one, was what can we do to compete against the sites when they have obtained so many backlinks via blog spam?
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