I am curious about some of the legal aspects of the following scenario... Let's say the "spider training" niche has 5 blogs that are clearly the authorities on everything spider training related. Now let's say somebody created a blog in the spider training niche that was nothing more than a mash up of blog posts from the other 5 authority blogs using RSS. What kind of trouble would this person who created the mashup blog be in since he/she is now effectively stealing loads of traffic from the bloggers that actually provided the content for the mashup blog?
It would make said blog owner look like an ass. Don't scrape other peoples work. Write posts yourself. Copying someone else's work and acting like its your's is spiritual bankruptcy. Nigel
If you offer an RSS it is perfectly fine as that is what it is made for. But if you use the whole article instead of a snippet and do not provide a backlink to the original work than this is considered a copyright violation and you can actually get in trouble for this. Most of the time you will just get a cease and desist from your IP provider but if you do not remove the content you can actually get your website taken down. I don't see the point of creating a mirror site anyways because this will never do anything but sit their and be flagged by google as spam. I just don't see the point in this at all but if that's what they want to do they can do it. I just know if one of my sites was being mirrored I would have someone in my staff pursue legal options against the website to get them shut down just to make a point about our content as I pay writers and don't want my content being stolen just the same as if I wrote a book and had someone "mirroring" my book.
Copy from other blog or website can wash your brand. And if some one come to know that then they will defiantly warn you to remove their content and will let others know about you activity so finally you have to stop your activity or close you blog for ever.