Jenstar - 4:24 pm on Jun 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

If it has been republished without permission, even with credit given, it is copyright infringement. But there is a fine line between what is copyright infringement and what can be reprinted under "fair use". It would probably have to be determined with each example. And some of the scrapers are likely written with the "fair use" in mind.

This is one area I am quite interested to see how Google AdSense reacts to. Many of these types of sites did end up getting removed when they did the big "clean-up" back in December.