Tool to fight SE Spamming and scrapers

I have no skills to create this, but for the sake of potentially having a good idea that someone else can put in motion I’m posting it. Perhaps far-fetched but you never know until you say it.

PART I:
This tool will overlay the google.com search results and place a checkbox next to each listing. If the person using the tool clicks the checkbox two links appear under the search result.

Link #1) Report to Google (for spamming / cloaking / violations of T&Cs) … This triggers a list of checkboxes with the google violation options they allow you to select from when processing the spam report:

a) misleading re-direct
b) description doesnt match content,
c) etc..

Also provides a text input area for comments you want to send with the report.

The software then collects the other information google requires to send the spam report. (a) query you used to generate the results, (b) the URL of the search results (c) offending website, and then automatically sends the spam report.

Link #2) Affiliate T&C Violation If you select this link the program will send out our own spider to find out what programs are being promoted on the offending site as well as the affiliate IDs of the offender. It should also be able to easily deal with straight re-directs.

Program then automatically generates emails to the affiliate programs reporting the offender so they can ban the account.

PART II:
We employ is a “centralized server” that collects our collective reporting in one place. It would update as we submit complaints. For instance if I report a bad site not only do the affiliate programs and google get an email about it, but our “centralized server” also gets the information providing a few extra features:

(a) If a site has already been reported (by someone else) the checkbox next to the search result would be greyed out to prevent us from annoying google and the affiliate programs with duplicate reports, saving everyone lots of time.

(b) Allow us to maintain a whois database of offenders and repeat offenders, generated a “most wanted” list of offenders, etc.. if the same offenders keep appearing we’d have the data to ask a program — hey. why no action here?

(c) potentially collect enough informatino to prove that theft is occuring and taking repeat offenders to court of copyright infringement, etc, perhaps class action law suits againts the biggest offenders if we get the right data.

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There are many things that would need to be considered… but it was my basic idea for automating and speeding up our actions.

Some things that might want to be considered would be keeping the program in the hands of a select group of people – so no one somehow used it against good webmasters…. or try to taint the results by just creating all sort of false claims… if we don’t let out the beans that we have this tool, it might be less likely that the counter-minds figure out a way to debunk it. This is why i posted this in the private forums….

I’m curious is if its a good idea or not.

What would really be nice is to get the affiliate programs to turn over the cash of offending affiliates to us so that we could it to develop more prevention techniques for whatever the next black hat technique is…. those programs that did this could display the seal of being “blackhat free” or something that we came up with.

We could give the software / centralized site a name and ultimately become a hub of information about combating black hat, for other webmasters to get information about.

Of course I realize its a pipedream about getting the funds from blackhatters caught by the program or whatever, but then perhaps just a annual fee to get the seal if the affiliate program cooperates fully with this system.