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Download squad touches on a raw nerve in the blogosphere, the idea of people taking your blog entries, stripping out everything that points back to you, and then passing it off as your own work. The are not the only ones, even groups like IT Toolbox see the same thing, it just all depends on how aware bloggers are when it comes down to this.

Not everyone writes under creative commons licenses, techwag is definitely for profit, we work hard to bust out these articles, and to build up an audience share. But then knowing how slow things can happen, like getting a ranking in Google, or showing up in a search engine at times, the relative merit of what download squad calls blog piracy makes some sense.

Sure they have an Adsense “infested” site, but with the relative click through rates of less than 1%, the only way to really do this is to spread that kind of wealth across multiple blogs, and multiple sites, which will then get nailed by Google bringing everyone’s page ranks down. The odds of anyone seeing anything when the work is used in 10’s or even 100’s of sites is not a good way to make a profit.

Then there are the oddities out there, sites that rip material, but have nary an advert to be seen. Those we haven’t figured out yet, but willing to take ideas on this one.

Most bloggers will commiserate with the Download Squad and welcome them into the fold, its weird, its bizarre, and unless you can find out who owns the domain, there is little that can realistically be done. Sorry mate.

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