Webwork - 2:32 pm on Oct 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

Any tips on how to protect my content?

I strongly suggest you take to reading the material put up by our fellow moderator IncrediBILL, who has spent years fending off bots sent to scrape his website's content.

IF you can slow down and/or frustrate the bots you are ahead of the game, but it's a never ending battle.

Also, read about what you can and cannot expect to copyright when it comes to directories AND go to the source - the USPTO.gov - and not the forums for the most authoritative answer. Forums are full of misininformation, most of which leans towards "it's okay to rip off directory content".

No, not entirely, but you gotta do some reading in order to work your angles . . so you can successfully sue and bankrupt the bad actors . . or at least wipe out their Adsense accounts for a long time . . :-/