just to make it clear: you said “You want webmasters to understand what you are doing is not wrong and what 888 is condoning is not wrong. In your ideal world this might be true, however on these forums it must be made clear that we do not support these actions because no matter how you spin the wheel what you are doing is wrong even though legally there might not be recourse, IMO it is still wrong. “
i do not do content scrapping like this, this is a techniques which was used by BH 5 years ago, the techniues today are much better and do not involved content scrapping at all, but that is for another discussion.
and i also do not support these techniques , (if that was not clear from my prev. post), i do say that such is life and trying to think what we can all do to fight this (and our sites are scrapped too – take a look at that asshole sites that were reported)
the problem is that there are new comers to teh BH world which are not that advenced so they are using these scrapping techniques.
you also said that “Pressure can be applied on the programs turning a blind eye to their affiliate partners who actively participate in this unethical and illegal activity. Indeed to sit back and take no action whatsoever, allows the industry to become more tarnished.” , let me show you a case and see how would you act on it, lets say a BH seo is doing the wrong thing and then redirect his traffic to the term “casino” on a small PPC provider, a larger PPC provider buys listing on that term in the little PPC provider (happen all the time), we are all bidding for that term on that big PPC provider, is that wrong to bid there? do we really know the source of that PPC traffic, all I am saying that looking a few steps ahead the approche of banning and crying is pointless and you better direct your efforts in enlarging your community.
just me 2 cents, not trying to justify anyone, and really trying to geta reality check and maybe as a result of this thread and provocating things said here a solution will emerge, but i am looking for a REAL solution and not something which i can see even now that is not working