In my previous post entitled "Spimmers," I mentioned resources that would help bloggers protect their original content thru WordPress plugins and included links to pages that outline ways on how to deal with spimmers once they are found out. In addition to those resources, Lorelle on WordPress has written a very nice article about the best tips in dealing with spimmers or scrapers. One of them is another plugin that not only prevents content theft but generates fake content so that the reader visiting a scraper's site is also informed that the site they visited might be leeching off of other people's work. This is what Antileech is all about.

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This post originally appeared in "Spimmers « Gormful" but I felt it needs to be spread around to the ends of the world. So here it is in this blog. ================================================== Spimmers, an amalgamation of the words "Spinners" and "Spammers," is a new breed of pests that are to be loathed and stoned to death as they steal intellectual properties, particularly blog entries. They scrape your site's content and replace synonyms of words on your posts, trying to pass off your work as their own. The bastards.

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Spimmers, an amalgamation of the words "Spinners" and "Spammers," is a new breed of pests that are to be loathed and stoned to death as they steal intellectual properties, particularly blog entries. They scrape your site's content and replace synonyms of words on your posts, trying to pass off your work as their own. The bastards.

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