Content scraping. Which is really just the modern, web-based way of saying copyright infringement. I dislike copyright infringement. I dislike people and companies who opt to capitalize on (read: steal) the creative efforts of others instead of creating something their own damned selves.
That's why I so enjoyed this post, which appeared today on two blogs...which is sort of the point. The original post appears here: The Injury Blog
The premise of the post is that another site, InjurySite dot com, has been stealing the Injury Blog's content on a daily basis for months. And the proof is in the posting. Because the InjurySite dot com's blog has a surprising post heading up its front page today...the headline reads ENTIRE INJURY SITE BLOG SCRAPED FROM TOTAL INJURY BLOG. It's worth checking out, just for a laugh, but you'll have to type in the URL. I'm not giving the lousy thieves an inbound link to help jack up their search ranking--not even one from a little personal blog with no page rank.
The remainder of the post explains that Total Injury employs a staff of designers, researchers, writers, even attorneys to produce its website, whereas the Injury Site simply steals the content produce by Total Injury and puts it on their blog without reading it. In fact, the post says, if you're reading this on the Injury Site, then you KNOW they're not even reading their own content...and as of this posting, you can read all about the shady practices the Injury Site engages in...right on the front page of the Injury Site.
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