888 is not the topic here at all, if you think so – you missed quite a bit from the information discussed here
it is just like saying in the context of a discussion on fighting cancer that i do not think that a public ban on a specific movie where the actors smoke cigaretes from a certain brand, is somthing i would do since the movie itself has a very good script and background music and i enjoyed seeing it.
the issue of the discussion is the phanomena of BH using scraped content to build their sites, it’s REAL affect on us all and what we can do to stay ahead in this game, my basic message is that if you will do a half decent work in SEO on your sites, and taking care of proper link promotion you will surly beat the hell out of the scrappers , this IMHO should be the long term strategy, you can not fight scrapper site by complaining since ‘00000 more of them where created while i was writing this post, you can not catch and complain, this is a war to lose, the other avenue is fighting the money flow where is you will read my prev. posts on this thread is again IMHO not realistic since PPC anagines compete on listings in other PPC engaines and we all compete there and also the vendors so the flow of money will be there
the issue of teh discussion is not even if scrapping is legit or not in the eyes of the law, i belive it is legit looking at what the law says , you say not, it is OK, take it to the court and let it decides, if you feel you are right, based on the things i said before i think you will lose.
now here is what i am trying to repeat over and over again:
the only long term strategy is to do a proper work, if you want google and other SE traffic you will need to invest more into undestanding and implementing SEO, if you do not want to do that, look for other evenues to bring visitors to your site.
that is all, let’s continue the discussion if you disagree to my last point, for therest we all know where each one stands
this thread will surly not resolve it