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A scraper site (Site X) with around 1,000,000 pages, virtually all copied content from a variety of other sites (Site A,B & C), each page with very prominent advertising from Google - conforming to Google's TOS's in every way except that the content is stolen.
Site X does very well in serps - but goes under the radar of the legitimate publishers for say 12 months - and has traffic rankings in the 5000 (Alexa) range - equating roughly to 6 million monthly page views.
Site X earns around $10,000 per calender month from Adsense - Google get $3000 pcm additionally.
Site X in the 12 months earned $120,000 and Google earned $36,000.
In the physical world - what is this analogous to?
How does this work in the digital world?
Is google legally liable for advertising against copyright infringing material?
Can Sites A, B & C claim damages of $156,000 from Google and Site X?
Google has some powerful lawyers teams and good links into the Government to fight against you until you're dead by debilitation.
It could be only profitable if you know how to build a good PR campaing and harvest the big hype around the Google legal troubles.
That's all if, of course, you're not an Adsense publisher.
