Picking a Dead Man’s Pocket

Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm

Tags: prevention, legal issues, articles, dmca, archive, caching, content theft, copyright, copyright infringement, internet archive, meta tags, plagiarism, robots txt, rss, scraping, spam, spammers, splogs

If reading this site and enduring the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again. These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it. As a recent article on Blue Hat SEO pointed out, nothing is ever really deleted from the Web. Caching sites and archives hold on to your content long after the page has been removed and, as the article demonstrates, anything that is available can be scraped. It is the equivalent of picking a dead man’s pocket, but it is a type of plagiarism that can and does happen. It is also a kind of plagiarism that raises a whole slew of new questions and concerns. How it is Done The process for scraping a dead site is surprisingly simple, involving only five steps. Visit an archiving site such as The Internet Archive Lookup an old site that you know to be deceased Find an old, but still relevant,

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