realmaverick - 8:09 pm on Jul 11, 2012 (gmt 0)

In other words you're offering the thieves a deal at the expense of the original owners with the link-back.

Thanks for rewording my post and making assumptions, but no, my users are happy for blogs to give exposure to their work and a link to their work, is their preference. However, if no link is offered, they'd like their work removed from the website.

As always with my websites, my users come first.

I imagine that altruism will die off rather quickly once you realize how many Adsense content thieves there are. Plus if your site is utilizing Adsense Google could turn around and kill your own cash flow.

If the website is just utter trash, I'd ask for removal. The blogs were all reputable websites, however for whatever reason, they seem to believe because this content isn't textual, they don't have to give credit.