Originally Posted by ITraffic

I have a few paysites with downlodable DVDs and im to damn lazy to make up different descriptions for the same movie on different sites. So how big a problem is it if I use the same movie description on 2 or 3 very different websites although in the same language. Will it hurt my SEO?

Also some rival websites has stolen bits of text from some of my most SEO friendly websites, and it doesnt seem to hurt me to bad. Is it really that big a problem?