It sure seems like easy money nowadays. You register for a free account at blogger, copy good contents from other sites, put in AdSense code, and there you go earning money from other people’s content.
Are you doing that? Proud of that? Let me tell you something. Your days are numbered. I mean your AdSense days. Your AdSense account might be terminated any time. But probably that’s beside the point. Even if you don’t care about your account (which you should, because you can’t reapply again after terminated), there are other things you need to consider.
First, it’s just wrong. You are stealing from other webmasters. By having the content on your site, you are using their content to compete with themselves. How will you feel if you are the one in the situation?
From legal point of view, you can be sued for copyright infringement. In US there is Digital Millennium Copyright Act that protects copyright owners. While many see it as an infringement to freedom, it has really been helpful for honest webmaster for protecting their content. For more information on this Act, visit the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site.
In compliance with the DMCA, Google has stated their policy, that is to respond to notices and take action accordingly, including termination of AdSense account.
From AdSense Help Center
It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). For AdSense publishers, if we receive a notice or otherwise have reason to believe that your site is infringing, we may terminate your participation in the program.
If you are a publisher and your contents are copied without your permission, you can notice AdSense by following the procedure at http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html.
There are a number of threads on Webmaster World forum regarding this topic (require registration)
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/11998.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/2683.htm
*I am not talking about the big-scale MFA scraper sites here. These are small sites, done by newbie webmasters.
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