Blog Thieves and Why They Steal From Yahoo Groups

There are only two reasons for a blog to steal content from Yahoo Groups.

1. A lazy way to get content to drive traffic to the blog.

2. Greed. Traffic is being driven to the blog for one reason, there are ads on the blog. Ads by Google and other ads. This can 'earn' the blogger money with no further effort on the blogger's part.

Ok, there may be another reason, just to see if they can do it.

However, you can bet the reason is 'too lazy to get legitimate content and greed'.

At the time of this writing, there are at least four blogs exposing at least seventeen Yahoo Groups' private messages for the world to see. Some of them have their email addresses exposed to spam email harvesters. No doubt there are more blogs like this out there, finding them all could be a chore.

I guess BlogSpot thinks these sites are ok and that copying private Yahoo Groups message posts is OK. I say this because many complaints to BlogSpot about DMCA Violation Notice for copyright were ignored by BlogSpot. Either that or no one is monitoring the forms posted for Copyright/Privacy. I would think someone should be monitoring those requests as this is a serious issue and should not have been ignored.
Otherwise take the form down

Yahoo Groups need to be on alert.

No one is looking out for you, Yahoo Groups. Be vigilant!

One more thing, if you find your Yahoo Group is being compromised, look here.

Martha
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