There's money to be made on the internet.

[MrMark]

Even a Tory Minister, Grant Shapps found a way.

Grant Shapps founded company selling software that breaches Google code | Politics | The Guardian

But for some reason he did it under an assumed name. I wonder why?

Grant Shapps, the Conservative housing minister tipped for promotion to the cabinet this week, founded a family business selling software that increases a website's advertising revenue by breaching Google's code of practice.

The $497 (£313) software package, TrafficPaymaster, creates web pages by "spinning and scraping" content from other sites to attract advertising from Google.

Hang on - haven't I just done something similar by copying/pasting part of that article?

[Platypus]

Hang on - haven't I just done something similar by copying/pasting part of that article?

The Guardian probably copied it, or the lazy hack wot wrote it did.

[Doggy Styles]

"Filthy Tory scumbag makes money!"
- Guardian

[MrMark]

"Filthy Tory scumbag makes money!"
- Guardian

Well maybe...

Or perhaps they are pointing out that copying and republishing other people's work in order to derive money from that, is theft?

Clever though. Why didn't I think of doing it...

[MrMark]

Allegations of sockpuppetry - I wonder if he posts here

Grant Shapps is a sock-puppeting loser | Bloggerheads

[Spacecadet]

The way that article carries on you would have thought that breaking googles code of practice is a capital offence.

[MrMark]

The way that article carries on you would have thought that breaking googles code of practice is a capital offence.

Even if Google doesn't follow up (why should it?) surely copying other people's material and re-publishing it for financial gain, without permission or accreditation, is theft?

[Spacecadet]

Even if Google doesn't follow up (why should it?) surely copying other people's material and re-publishing it for financial gain, without permission or accreditation, is theft?

depends if it falls into the fair use category or not

[petergriffin]

It is my understanding that a few gentlemen here write code to sniff the highest bid for a share/commodity for their clients. What the "Tory scmbag" has done in quite minimal in comparison.

[MrMark]

Sometimes the guilty are punished..

Google blacklists websites run by family of Grant Shapps | Politics | The Guardian

Google blacklists websites run by the family of Grant Shapps.
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