Interesting thread on protecting your content. The lesson seems to be that DMCA complaints are a lot easier than hiring an attorney to go after some random webmaster.
I'm pretty sure I could find a few people using my content around the web. One day soon I'll start getting them banned from Google and letting their registrars and web hosts know what they're up to.
So my healthspan blog is still doing well. This is the one I did the article experiment on - I counted 3 backlinks from article sites last week, so it would be hard for me to say this wasn't worth the 30 bucks (plus the little time it takes to write an article or money it costs to have one written).
Well at the moment we're looking at 81 links according to Yahoo. This includes a few ads, pinging services like technorati, a few articles, a few recips, a few paid directories, a trackback, and many pages from my own healthspan blog (which of course all link back to my homepage).
The next step is paying 30.00 to submit to 300 free-inclusion directories. In the past these have always increased the number of backlinks showing without any adverse effects. Let's try it again and see what happens.
http://www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com/ad_network_222.php