Comments on: An Even Darker Side of Scraping

By: Content Theft: How At Risk is Your Blog? : The Blog Herald

Content Theft: How At Risk is Your Blog? : The Blog Herald — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:42:59 +0000

[...] simply not blogging about these topics is not enough. As Rose Desroches found out over a year ago, spam bloggers determine what content is scraped not by the actual content, but by targeted [...]

By: PlagiarismToday » Laziest Spam Blog Ever

PlagiarismToday » Laziest Spam Blog Ever — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:01:17 +0000

[...] seen sploggers scrape anti-child pornography sites in to promote “teen porn”, scrape hundreds, even thousands, of feeds to capture just a [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:09:07 +0000

I find this sociopathic behavior endlessly depressing. In my fantasy world, I would require ID verification before giving anyone an Internet account. If this account is used for abusive purposes, the users is penalized or banned. Simple concept. If you cannot play by the rules, you do not get to play at all. If the ISP does not hold the user responsible, then the ISP is penalized. Accountability, all the way.

By the way, this has nothing to do with "freedom of speech." Only *abusive* behavior is penalized. Certainly, we would have to define what is acceptable and unacceptable, but this is not an impossible task. Those rules would also have to be periodically revised, but this is how society works, anyway. Our laws are not perfect, but they serve a purpose. What is the alternative? Complete anarchy?

Of course, I realize this is not going to happen, but I can still dream about it. We live in a world where drunk drivers are allowed back on the road, and there is little or no accountability for polluting the Internet.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:09:07 +0000

By the way, this has nothing to do with "freedom of speech." Only *abusive* behavior is penalized. Certainly, we would have to define what is acceptable and unacceptable, but this is not an impossible task. Those rules would also have to be periodically revised, but this is how society works, anyway. Our laws are not perfect, but they serve a purpose. What is the alternative? Complete anarchy?

Of course, I realize this is not going to happen, but I can still dream about it. We live in a world where drunk drivers are allowed back on the road, and there is little or no accountability for polluting the Internet.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:58:06 +0000

The internet is dead. It gets worse and worse. I’m not sure I want to know how it is in 5 or 10 years from now. Will 90% of the content of the web be fake, scraped, commercial blackhat stuff?

Don’t you find it depressing? How do we have to solve this? Can we?

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:38:32 +0000

Jonathon, a very informative article. Thank you for your assistance today. It was much appreciated. The content has been removed from his websites.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:58:06 +0000

The internet is dead. It gets worse and worse. I'm not sure I want to know how it is in 5 or 10 years from now. Will 90% of the content of the web be fake, scraped, commercial blackhat stuff?

Don't you find it depressing? How do we have to solve this? Can we?