Scrapers are a menace

I have several websites that I work on. And not surprisingly there are some scrapers stealing my content on a couple of sites.

When I notice this happening the first thing that I do is email the hosting company. And nine times out of ten they will take the site down. Well, recently I emailed a hosting company and got back this big long email on these steps that I needed to take to prove that the content was indeed mine. What the hell? So, I notice on the scraper page that they are running AdSense, so I know that stealing copyrighted material is something that can get you banned by AdSense. So, I email AdSense. I get back a similar response from them.

Why are these places, one being Google, making it easier for the scraper than the copyright holder?

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