Didn't know if this was the right place to put this or the SE part of the forum. I know this post seems like a rant and considered by many as no contribution at all, but I think posting this can add some noise around the subject

We have two groups:

• People working hard to create original content and making good websites
  
• People spending US$9 on a domain, putting Wordpress and copying the content from group #1.

I come from a local Webmaster & development conference. I've been at several each year and I've found here and there (also on the web) the same silly song growing more and more each year:

"Now its time to rethink and rewrite the copyrights, knowledge is for all". There shouldn't be many barriers to "share".

By share this "experts" mean Copy & Paste. This is old song... the sad thing is more and more experts with "authority sites" actually have GREAT traffic creating no content at all. They just copy from here and there and paste on their sites and usually add "source or courtesy by ww...". Now they have Adsense and share their success stories motivating others to copy & paste and join the chorus of "change the copyright way of thinking, this is the new web!"

I can't blame Adsense, but its not new that it motivated the birth of MFA sites, sites with no content or with copied content to spread all around. Now we even find sites that in no way at first or second look should have been approved to join the program. Obviously we have no control.

I took time to take a look at those sites. Even as they have great amount of traffic, they have little or no rank at all (Page Rank). Ok, I know about the discussion of PR having no meaning. But it seems SE do notice who copies what, but still deliver great traffic to them. Again, we have no control over this, Even if they have our content on their sites. While it can be discussed examples of penalized sites for copy & paste, there are plenty of examples of sites still with tons of traffic even as they copy and paste.

Its been discussed how long it takes for SE to index a site. Yet, we have blogs with their content being indexed in a matter of hours, even faster than sites itself and its been discussed SE giving them some sort of privilege. I made the test myself with a test-drive-blog. Didn't took much for the SE to begin indexing right away.

I'm not telling SE are the devil, but indirectly there is a motivation for many to build sites who steal, yes, that's the word, steal. I think it is obvious but now even people at conferences (and web) give advice to do so. AND WE, (perhaps you and me) creating original content, should change the way we look at our work to begin sharing it with them (including a nice smile)

Shutting down those sites is kinda complicated, take per example the blogspot sites... Do you think the day is coming closer when we will see some ethics being applied to the algos?

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