Atticus - 1:50 am on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

From a publisher's perspective, I'm happy when G lists my site. I make scads of cash. When scrapers list my site, suddenly my snippet appears on pages also featuring, among other things, pornography.

I'm not trying to make any point about what's legal or not legal. But if folks want to compare and contrast G and scraper sites, that's the big difference from a content publisher's point of view.

One pays me, the other attempts to use my content to syphon off traffic which might otherwise have come my way.

And aparrently, it's all part of some big game, where the folks who 'borrow' my content to outrank me deny the existence of any rules, except that no one's allow to rat them out to G.

That's the part that blows my mind -- these 'law of the jungle' types who are surprised when they find out that they aren't really at the top of the food chain. No real tiger would hang his head and cry about "snitches." He'd just eat them.