Why do people steal content?
The number one reason that people steal online content is so they can make money from advertising. They will take your article and put it on a webpage on their websites. They will then place advertising on the page, which earns them money. The most common adverts, by virtue of their ease of implementation, are Google AdSense ads. People simply add a piece of code to the webpage and relevant ads are automatically displayed alongside the content. Every time a visitor to the page clicks on an ad, the website owner earns a small commission. If someone has thousands or even millions of pages of content showing these ads, the earnings can be very significant. Content is expensive and time consuming to create, so it is far easier for these website owners to steal it, particularly as the risk of getting caught is so low.
