Photo-sharing site Flickr has come under fire as developers have used its API to violate the rights of its users, seemingly unchecked by Flickr itself.

Safe-surfing site and “accidental scraper” Workfriendly is now offline after more than two years of pushing duplicate content into Google.

Is it possible to use a simple CSS trick to get around spammers and other content thieves? An interesting proposal shows a way to use a simple trick to fool the spammers.

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.

As spam techniques evolve, it is inevitable that they begin to turn to newer and more reliable services to publish and profit from their junk content. In just such a push, many spammers are turning to Amazon as a means to make a quick, reliable dollar.

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.

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.

With so many new search engines, directories and social news sites repurposing the full feed, often against the will of bloggers, perhaps it is time to have a central repository of this information. Leave a comment and have your voice heard on this matter.

The notion of fragmented conversations has drawn a lot of attention over the past few weeks. However, what are the real implications solutions to the problem?