Hi! I am not experienced working with google.com. I have a question for you: How google treat sites which has no unique content? If I get content from different sources what I have to expect?
The pages will probably not be indexed and your whole site will take a dip in SERP's. However, some have had luck with stealing content from other sites and making a profit. Whenever I catch someone stealing whole articles from my site, I report their site to Google and their web host. To summarize, don't steal anyone's content. It takes hard work to write great content, and it would not be fair for someone to take it.
Someone copied my whole blog post http://www.dailytechnologytips.com/2008/07/10-ways-to-get-referral-traffic-to-your.html to here swapshop.co.nz/blog/post/Search_engine_optimization/931/Some-Tips-to-generate-Web-Site-Traffic-for-free What to do with these people. You can't control.
i found once someone that copied one of my pages, complained to the hosting and they told me to send them a signed fax of my complained and something else and i just thought it was too much of a hastle and dropped the whole deal. Anyway, I found that the all praised google duplicate filters aren't that great as everybody thinks.
Read this if you don't know what to do if someone steals your content: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content It helped me a lot.
unique content is an important thing for google consideration. if you'll copy from another site's article i suggest you to make changes in words structure, make it different with the original one, mention about the source of that article, and give a link to source of that article.
If anyone has to copy he will copy. If not word by word he will change a bit here and there. So worrying is useless
I have a blog that is mostly pre written press releases, and promotional material. I still rank pretty good for a lot of keywords, artists, festivals, and still number one for my general keyword, with a steady PR 3. I do rearrange a few paragraphs at times, but traffic is good...probably because I am one of the only ones that will post everything in my niche that is submitted to me.
Why would you inform them? Do you tell the car thief you're going to call the cops before you call? Of course not. So why tell the content thief you are going to try and get in touch with the authorities to stop them?
Sad duplicate contents could be rank and be indexed. Be sure when you have new content, find ways to index and cache your site immediately.
Not everyone intentionally "steals" content, i bought 20 so called unique articles here and randomly checked a couple and they were ok.. I later found out several were copied. I also got some articles "Free for Republication" from an article directory, put them online with the so called authors link intact. I later found out this "author" just ripped them from a site and submitted the content to directories for backlinks. I also run a number of forums where people post articles they have copied & pasted from elsewhere, it happens at DP every day. Stuff like this happens, and let me tell you if you got my site de-indexed instead of having the decency to contact me under the above circumstances you will wished you didn't. So if anyone finds their content on another domain, don't be like this guy. Contact the owner first just like Lorelle said, if they refuse or don't reply in a reasonable timeframe "then" submit a DMCA to their host and/or Google.