I am just going to continue concentrating on building my own portals. I am resigned to having lost this battle
the problem with that is that if 888 continues to support the bhs then you’re going to lose either by the SEs putting up a disclaimer page as Dom mentioned (and wouldn’t the gov love that) or else they’ll bleed you out slowly via the fact that you can’t build sites as fast as they can spit out their spam (by your own admission) therefore simple math dictates that its just a matter of time before you see yourself pushed out.
the latter may take longer but still just as effectively as if the SEs had stopped gambling searches. .. IMHO.
what I am quite surprised about is that this scraping bh SEO hasn’t spilled over into the mainstream because THAT is when google and other SEs will address the situation because as I’ve said before if you look at the big picture what’s going to be the end result is people who create content will stop because they’ll tire of seeing scrapers get paid for their hard work … or else they’ll stop because they had to get a “real job” to support their families.
There cannot be anything good come from scrapers and I think most any half-intelligent person could spot that fact quickly. That said: I think the SEs will address this situation with extreme prejiduce when it spills over.
a big mistake on their part since I would think a smart planner would follow the money and the trends which it creates … both good and bad. Address these cutting-edge trends … the bad ones anyway … before it infects the mass population … so to speak. just like if word spreads that scraping is profitable .. it will become more prevalent – its also true that if word spread that google was aggressively seeking out scraper sites and severely punishing them… (and perhaps any other site created by that domain’s owner if they wanna get some outstanding results in a hurry 
) …. that nobody in the mainstream would consider scraping as a viable approach.