To a certain extent I believe the affiliate who has been scraped should be compensated.
Content theft within the framework of the internet is illegal as per policies and guide lines of all major search engines. It is also against the policies of most programs which we promote.
Getting rid of scrapers is a challenge but it can be done. I suggest a spam report, and destruction of their main domain name. For the scrapers who use external servers usually contacting their ISP provider is a good idea. Spamhouse is another good resource for reporting so is the whois directory. As a last resort if nothing is done jargonize them off the entire net. Do to this you will have to know people who can rip sites off the net. I cannot give away all the technigues, because they are always watching this forum.
The SE’s may remove them but their main domain name remains intact, enabling them to set up quickly again.
But if affiliate programs do as they say and close down accounts and forward all commissions to the affiliate then the scraper really doesn’t have no incentive to scrape. It is very unfortunate some programs say they will close the account down, but seldomly do. I have proof of this, so the scraping continues.
There are some really honest programs and these will be the big ones in a couple of years. greek39