Famous content aggregator Fav.or.it is closed, much to the relief of at least some in the blogging community.

A new service by Lijit has raised eyebrows in the content community. Does their new aggregation service provide a new solution for content licensing or just push the boundaries of what is spam?

Feedblitz has come under fire for its new “private label domain” service. However, even as the relatively benign service attracts a great deal of attention, a fatal flaw in the Feedblitz site turns Feedblitz into one of the most effective spam bloggers to date.

WordPress.com users have access to a useful, if unofficial, blog dedicated to helping them report and stop scrapers of their content.

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.

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

Bitscan, the well-known copy detection system, has launched a new service that it hopes will greatly help Webmasters and bloggers track their content on the Web.

In a 20-minute screencast, Duncan Riley adeptly explains the issues with RSS scraping, why it is not acceptable and why many so-called services are treading on very thin legal/moral ice.

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.