[aklug] Re: Copyright taken to a ridiculous (but logical) extreme

Actually, the auto translation is probably closer to the truth. One of the things some blog owners have been doing is taking articles found on other sites, and running them through an auto spinner to repost it without running into copyright issues. The auto spinner uses some sort of thesaurus, and rewrites the articles. The result is a made for Adsense site with articles that are not intended for human consumption. Google picks it up and sends visitors for the keywords, who don't like what they read and hopefully click on an ad to get away from the site, earning the blog owner money.

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> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:51:38 -0900
> From: Mark Neyhart <Mark_Neyhart@legis.state.ak.us>
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Copyright taken to a ridiculous (but
> logical) extreme
>
> Christopher Howard wrote:
> > I thought this was rather hilarious:
> > http://hybrid-auto-cars.com/hybrid-sports-car/sports-car.html
> >
> > There is nothing strange about the content of the page
> itself. However,
>
> The content does seem strange in that it appears to be
> auto-translated
> from some other language.
>
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> Subject: [aklug] Re: Copyright taken to a ridiculous (but
> logical)
> From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:39:22 -0900
>
> I didn't catch it when I 1st looked at, but I think you
> might be
> correct.
> Either that, or it was written by someone for whom U. S.
> English is not
> their 1st language.
>
> Jim G
>
> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 16:51 -0900, Mark Neyhart wrote:
> > Christopher Howard wrote:
> > > I thought this was rather hilarious:
> > > http://hybrid-auto-cars.com/hybrid-sports-car/sports-car.html
> > >
> > > There is nothing strange about the content of the
> page itself. However,
> >
> > The content does seem strange in that it appears to be
> auto-translated
> > from some other language.
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