Hi all,
since I doubt much headway would be made to argue with their ethics … I offer this to the thieves out there … its going to come up as duplicate content anyway (correct me if wrong) which even a few pages of dup content can get the whole site banned from google (again please correct if wrong) … so where is the gain in stealing?
all I can figure is that you’re asking to get your site banned if you go around stealing content.
and I agree about the writer angle. This is getting out of hand and its time people start being responsible for what they are buying and slapping up on their sites and calling their own. I realize you hire out to save time but really … not checking to see if you’re putting up dup content is probably asking to get your site in trouble.
further on the writer angle is that I think if things keep in the same direction that there will come a time when it won’t matter whether there was a paid writer involved or not: the person owning the site is going to take the blunt of the blow for the end result.