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CreatineGuy maybe a real idiot, but some of the stuff he posted is absolutely true.
1. An RSS feed is copyrighted like any other content, no matter if it's text, a picture, a video or a feed...but todays reality is different: If you run a blog with a feed, you'll see it scraped and republished as soon as you start ranking well for any search term. It's not ok, but it happens to almost every blog, if I'd send out DMCA notices for everyone scaping any of my blogs I'd need to hire a full time employee for that. So, while it's illegal, the only way to fight this problem, at least partially, is publishing excerpts only or remove RSS completely....or ignore it.
2. Flagging does shit if not done by LOADS of people, I flagged a blog with all different IPs daily for about 3 months, nothing happened, it's still there, full of stolen content and links to full members area video downloads on rapidshare.
3. Blogger rarely removes adult blogs. In fact, google does not generally disallow adult content. The terms are a little vague about it, they reserve the right to "put such content behind an interstitial", suggest to make it private and do not allow "content that exists for the primary purpose of monetizing porn content or driving traffic to a monetized pornography site". Sounds easy, but I'm sure you could discuss for hours how "primary purpose" can be defined. Fact: There are many adult blogs on blogger that exist for 3+ years and get traffic in the 20-100k daily range, even found 2 PR5 ones. I don't think it's clever to host a blog there, since there is still a chance that it gets removed, but google doesn't seem to care much about it.
To see how much google cares: There was a big warez blog on blogger, links to it were spread over loads of big mainstream webmaster forums for weeks. Instead of deleting it, google made it access to registered blogger members only (so basically anyone spending 30 seconds to make an account). They didn't delete it...
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