Forums and communities have always been targets for spammers, but a new technique also threatens to draw the ire of content creators and other copyright holders.

Message boards are often thought of as dinosaurs on the Web. Where once having a presence on message boards and forums was almost as ubiquitous as email and IM, message boards have fallen on hard times, pushed aside by blogs and social networking sites.
However, there are still many thriving communities on the Web that use [...]

When it comes to matters of content theft, administrators at community sites face a very different set of challenges. Whether the site is a forum, a wiki or a collaborative blog, the content is valuable, but it is also difficult to protect.
The problem is that the community admin, the person usually in the best position [...]