I’ve sent hundreds of takedown notices and seen a wide variety of replies, but Joyent has taken the cake by not just failing to act, but actively defending a potential spam blogger.

Even though I’ve only really been back one week following Halloween, I’m going to be gone the rest of this week due to a conference in the Netherlands I’ll be speaking at.

Popular domain host Hostgator has been on a tear, shutting down a series of spam operations and forcing the spammers to locate alternate hosting. Is it a new trend or the payoff of an ongoing effort?

If you haven’t seen the most recent video regarding Photobucket, you definitely should give it a quick look. It is making waves across the Internet but it still needs your support.

Spammers are making it harder and harder to separate their creations from those of amateur bloggers. However, by understanding various ways to spot spam blogs and how spammers try to beat those methods, you can better detect junk sites yourself.

Inspired by recent posts, I decided to take a look at Google Trends and see how search terms relative to content theft were doing.

Spam is a notoriously difficult thing to predict but it does follow a set of rules that may give us some clues as to where it is going and what topics are going to be the greatest targets. Here, we look at seven areas and where they are likely going in terms of spam blogging and scraping.

Yesterday, I worked to appease the record industry by buying my first album in years. The results taught me a great deal about the current copyright climate any why there is so much open hostility toward copyright holders.

If you read this site regularly, you probably know a great deal about how to protect your content on the Web. However, you probably also know that the current system is an inelegant solution in need of serious repair. Here’s what’s wrong and what can be done about it.

Workfriendly, a script that masks the Web to look like an open Microsoft Word document, may have been created as a joke, but it continues to create serious problems for the Webmasters that it scrapes.