I think this kind of thinking is quite dangerous. Again, you're trying to lump in Demand Media/Content Farms with these scrapers and that can have dangerous con

I think this kind of thinking is quite dangerous. Again, you're trying to lump in Demand Media/Content Farms with these scrapers and that can have dangerous consequences, because where do you draw the line? Even in an automated scraper scenario, things aren't clear cut. How much processing needs to be done on source data before it goes from illegitimate copying to value-add? Fundamentally Google is just a really really amazing scraper system. Same thing with content farms. At what point does original content go from "paraphrasing Wikipedia" to providing useful summary information? Should Wikipedia now hold a defacto monopoly on summary-style encyclopedic information?