Atticus - 10:02 pm on May 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

OK, let's say that it's not possible for a site copying only 40-50 words to be guilty of copyright infringement. (I'll leave the discussion about whether it's legal to copy 40-50 words from a work that is only 40-50 words long for another day...)

I don't think that anyone here is married to the idea that snippets constitute copyright infringement. What folks want is a way to fight scraper sites.

Does anyone here have any other ideas about how a publisher can uses the law to fight against the loss of income/reputation caused by scraper sites, page hijackings, domain poisoning etc?

I've seen scrapers do everything from 302 redirects gone innocently (?) awry to porno sites that copy another site's content for use as a SE trap, incorporating the original site's business name and even their copyright notices into pornographic content.

Who can give us a tool to fight against such things?