Scraping and Editorial Rights

Rather than filing a DMCA case, do you prefer to live at peace knowing that your site is being ripped? In a recent panel I was part of for a blog summit, the question of how to treat content rippers was brought up. This is old news for most of us, but the answer to the question depends mostly on the attitude we want to take as authors.

For one, imitation is the best form of flattery and it really doesn’t hurt to have your content ripped off by scrapers as long as they give you a link. But on another note, the artist in you feels that urge to take them on. Legally, there may be a case, but then again, scraper sites will come and go. Black hat SEO guys will always tell you that once you try to take down one site, another 5 will pop up.

What’s your stand on the issue of scrapers?

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