According to Wikipedia, 'Blog scraping' is the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not owned by the individual initiating the scraping process. If the material is copyrighted it is considered copyright infringement, unless there is a license relaxing the copyright. The scraped content is often used on spam blogs or splogs.
I admit to using sources from other websites as back up content for my own, but I always cite my sources and provide links back to them. The problem is these bastard 'sploggers' such as the person over at wallpapers-e.com who has been constantly stealing my copyrighted photographs from one of my other blogs. What do we do about them?
Submitting a DMCA report to Google seems like our only option. What will Google do in such an event? remove the site from their lists? The offending website will still exist!
So frustrating! This is my 2nd post on this issue and I very, very pissed off to see a site stealing content from people which is getting a higher Google Pagerank and Alexa ranking than the very sites it steals from!
If you have any experiences with this type of issue, I would love to hear from you!
Muzzerino.
Sigh.
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