SCRAPING FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

There's been some animosity towards people who scrape articles as if this is anything new or in some ways wrong or cheap. Maybe these antagonists are right, but it's been going on since the inception of radio and TV. What are networks, but a bundled array of scraped talent and entertainment. It's only the arrangement or combination of interests that differ one from the other and not necessarily their originality.


It's been said that everything has been done or invented; that new things will spring from the combination of pre-existing phenomena, so, though we might not like the reality it is non-the-less inevitable.


It's merely a difference in the manner in which we organize the things or intellectual property. Much like Google or Bing arranges the web.


I'm surprised that the "original" producers of content don't see this as a pro rather than a con when ubiquitous is very much here and now. The fact that someone has decided to present their content to an audience who might not natural happen upon it would seem very much to their advantage, like free PR on their behave.


For instance Google has been accused of filtering or skewing search results in favor of their own generated material. For those who feel so inclined to take that stand could very easily create a program that compares all the search and social networks against one another (search and social = one in the same) to come to a more accurate conclusion of societal perception on a given subject. (giving you the opportunity to make a few bucks) 


The important thing to take away from this isn't whether something is necessarily true or accurate, or who's producing the content, or how it's arranged, rather what opinion or view point when incorporated into your lifestyle most benefits you in a direct way, that produces the most impact possible. 


The rest is just a rat race over control.