soapystar - 11:01 am on Mar 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

I don't think its a content ripped off problem that has caused the penalty. Its more likely you were penalised for some other reason, and now even scrapers appears above you.

Yes this is something that seems to be often repeated. However i wonder if you meant what you just said. You are saying its now widespread for original content pages to be more heavily penalized than pure scrapers. And if this was true are you saying thats not an issue?