Products have come and gone on the internet. What was yesterdays "next big thing" has been replaced by another product or a "bigger and better" version of the same product. Throughout it all, one product has remained constant and in high demand since the dawn of the World Wide Web.

The product I am referring to is information. It seems we can't get enough of it these days. It still is, by far, one of the hottest selling commodities on the internet. However, this voracious appetite for fresh information has spawned a new type of problem; a problem whereby the supply can't keep up with the ever increasing demand.

Enter the software developers. At about the same time the first article idea was born, software developers were busy planning ways to churn out multiple "unique" copies of the original written word in an attempt to satisfy this insatiable demand for content.

This plan has succeeded, even beyond the wildest dreams of the person that planted the first seed. At present, articles are being spun and re-spun until they are stripped entirely of whatever dignity they may have had to begin with.

In the beginning, the software was used for "black hat" purposes only. The reproduced content was used to feed search engine robots and was never seen by human eyes. Todays software has gotten much more sophisticated, so much so that some of these reproduced articles could even fool a human editor.

This has created a dilemma for article authors. Knowing there are potential dishonest software users out there who could take my original articles, spin them until they are unrecognizable, and claim them as their own, leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Just recently I was given over 100 PLR Articles in exchange for signing up for a free service. After quickly browsing through them it was easy to see they were not all original articles, but rather articles that were re-written using software. Of course, they immediately went to the trash. If you plan on purchasing PLR Articles, make sure you use a reputable source. If the price seems "too good to be true" it probably is.

However, not all reproduced articles are easy to spot. Some of these spun articles are of such high quality, they are being submitted to article directories. Not all article directories use human editors to scan for abuse, so it's fairly easy for these articles to get distributed all over the internet.

Don't get me wrong. There is some great software out there that can be helpful to authors if used properly. Using a software program to enhance your writing skill is one thing... using the software to turn out random pieces of garbled junk that no human could possibly decipher, another thing entirely.

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