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1: Google Shuts Down Music Blogs Without Warning
First off today, Google is drawing heat this morning over its closure of several music blogs hosted on its Blogger service. The reason is multiple copyright infringement notices against the sites, however, the sites themselves say [...]

Historically, Google has been a DMCA headache, even as its Blogger service has become overrun with spammers. That may be about to change.

Google’s DMCA process has come under fire in recent weeks, but the process has been broken for much longer. Is there any hope of fixing it?

For the most part, bloggers who host their own sites have greater control and protection than those who use a third party. However, a little-known feature at Google’s Blogger service may help level the playing field some.

Google has traditionally been one of the toughest hosts to work with, Its requirement of a scanned signature and limited contact information makes them hard to reach, unless you know where to look.

I am seeking feedback on a question that has been raised: Are freely hosted Web blogs more likely to be scraped? Aside from their lack of plugins and tools, do they draw more attention from spammers?

Through a combination of trickery and error, it is often possible for a spam blog to appear to have posted your works before you did. However, what effect does this have on the search engines? The answer is “Not Much”.

With the Internet becoming more international in every regard and laws in the U.S. turning against spammers, it seems odd that so many spammers are still concentrated within the United States. However, the reasons are simple to understand.

Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.

As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.