I would like everybody to view this thread as an opportunity to learn something from somebody who is very knowledgable about SEO – Janet.
His thoughts on the scraping issue, in my opinion, can give us some valuable insight into something that affects everybody in one way or the other.
Arguing and reiterating how terrible scraping is isn’t adding to the discussion at all. Nobody disagrees that scraping is unethical and a huge wart on any profitable online industry.