The typical scenario will be some professional looking site with original content will complain about some amateurish blog that has 2% original content. It'll be very easy in 99% of the cases to know which one is really legit. If that means that 50% of all web sites will disappear, so be it, they were garbage in the first place, and the internet surely needs a good clean up. It would also means less competition for the real publishers, so more money for us
this is soooooo bad if some one copies and steals my content I send a fax and it is like i am in court I have a BLOG that is copied entirely 14 times, the whole idea and the whole posts I have to send 14 faxes and what i get some warning to stealer and others will continue copying !! It is very bad that google are no longer taking response at report tool this is one of the economic crises manifestations
This will not mean that the content will disapear it will still be there but the publisher(copy&paster) wont be able to make money with adsense. From my point of view I love this!
They have been doing this for quite a while, but it takes someone to report the issue for it to get looked at in each case.
I have seen a lot of these copied contents and I stopped trying to get to them as nothing happens. lat time I found some of my articles on some sites and they stripped the links/author box. But I believe with this new policy from adsense, it looks like the web police is out to get you. Just my 2 cents JulieV
Good point kc9armc. How are we suppose to prove out innocence if wrongfully accused? This will be a good thing down the road I suspect though for legal sites.
this would be impossible because how would they know which one the original content is and also almost all contents are somehow related to each other
Ok, for people who don't read the thread or are just posting to increase their post count, no it's not impossible, no there are no major problems, no there's no web police, Google has been doing this for a long time, nothing new, and all other companies that host content also have similar policies. I've taken down articles from articles sites, free blog sites, forums, question and answers sites, etc. There should be an age or IQ requirement for this site...
Copying someone's material verbatim and publishing it on their site or Blog is a moron's work and I am sure google will target them with this additional clause.It has many repercussions, one of which is their own headache . But I am posing another sensible question here! If some one engage a crap copywriter and rewrite all content in different ABCD, He is a master original content writer and publisher. I heard some one taking pride here in getting some others banned. What you can do in the case of rewritten content?? Thirdly what is original ? some one copying from a journal or from a newspaper or from any published print media , where is Google coming into picture? Fourthly, all of us know even in offline content 90% are copied content.What some one can do about it? Who is powerful, he holds the copyright. I feel an online recession is also not far away!!
I think it's good for Google to solve this problem since there are so many people out there not really care about stealing content from other websites and making money from it. To get more content without stealing, the website owner should think to outsource it or research it himself.
How about those article directories, most of them have the same articles on them. Because authors submit to as many article directory as they can their articles, same with social bookmarking, and directories. What if the owner of ezinearticles.com complains all none famous article directories, that they copy the articles from ezinearticles. Same with digg.com what if they complain all pligg sites accusing them they copied all the content of digg? How google people will handle this, are they going to ban all accounts of those smaller and none famous sites because of the bigger sites complains?