Stealing Content is Bad Enough, But Submitting It To Digg? That's Plain Wrong.

Stealing content is wrong. Last week I posted some fun when someone stole an interview from CN and put it in a Web blender. Today Tamar pointed me to something even worse -- stolen content that has been submitted to Digg.

In this case, it was an article on Mashable titled "Flickr Toolbox". The article was posted in August 2007. It was posted this week on spam blog, "tech-2008.blogspot.com" and subsequently submitted to Digg here. While it didn't make the frontpage, it received 8 votes and I am sure some traffic as well. These spam blogs need to go - even if they do boost inbound counts. 

If all of that isn't enough, Digg ranks #2 behind Mashable for the title and the Digg links points to the spam blog. Would you agree with me that Digg should physically delete this post from their index so that Google will remove the link as well?  (I've already addressed my views on why Digg should not be indexed in Google results)