Posts Tagged ‘spammers’

Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

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.



Picking a Dead Man’s Pocket

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Prevention

If reading this site and enduring the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again.
These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it.
As a recent article on [...]



The Most Common Mistake in Plagiarism Fighting

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 10th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web.
Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of these [...]



Scraping Starts from the Very First Post

By Jonathan Bailey • May 22nd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Rachel Radison is a New Orleans-based mortgage broker. After seeing the difficult home-buying climate in the city following Hurricane Katrina, she decided that she could help would-be buyers with her know how.
Radison, having heard about these new Web sites called “blogs” decided to create one herself and obtained a Wordpress.com account. However, her ignorance about [...]