wheel - 2:41 pm on Feb 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

Without getting into the debate if this gray/black hat method works successfully in Google (always win or not), no one in this forum would say that building your empire on stolen scraped content is "smart" rather than evil...

The discussion is around link building mmore than scraping. Scraping for the most part is illegal. Bending google's guidelines is nothing of the sort.