The Myth of Content Farming: Matters 100 Day Challenge Day 47

Before talking about a little ibond, I mentioned passive income a little bit. I don't need to say more about this concept, I think everyone must know it very well! Especially in this era when it is possible to lose one’s job at any time, having one or two passive incomes can at least make people feel more at ease. I also occasionally wonder, what can I do if I lose my job? Delivery? Fill out a questionnaire?

Hmm... If I have the ability, I really don't want to sell my time.

In fact, there are many ways of passive income; but I only recently came to know one, which you may not want to do at all, because it challenges moral values:

Do a " content farm ".

Yep, that's complete piracy. Is it a crime? Forget it. But how can it be investigated? This story starts with my friend. This friend used to be the editor of a newspaper. Then she whispered to me one day: The report she wrote was copied. People from the same company.

Um?

The copied articles are 90% similar, probably only the name and a few words are different. But she said it couldn't be recovered because it was an acceptable behavior by the company. The company operates a content farm alongside its newspapers. It is to change one's own article a little and put it on another online media.

In other words, it can be used for two purposes, or even three . It turns out that this is the reason why the content farm will not be reported!

Hearing this really refreshed my view. Indeed, the copyright of their own articles belongs to them, and they will have no problem changing them as they like. However, by imitating another media, you can earn more advertising revenue without hiring more employees. This trick is really amazing!

No wonder everything written on the internet looks so similar.

(But I don't know if all content farms work like this, but this kind of operation actually exists...)

Thank you all for reading today! See you tomorrow!

Yangnai (25/10/2020)