Is auto-mated linkbuilding illegal?

Im developing a quick and dirty link wheel/pyramid auto-mation program and I became uncertain about where the line is drawn.

Can someone please clarify which of the following are illegal/legal and to what extend (all is 100% auto-mated):
1. Crawling google for related blogs/sites that accept comments and automatically submit a random comment + backlink (to 4).

2. Crawl google for related forums, create & verify account, create a thread with some (spun) text + backlink (to 4).

3. Crawl the internet and collect a ton of e-mail addresses and send them a link. (Im pretty sure this one is very illegal)

4. Crawl non-copyrighted article databases and identify related articles. Auto-spin with the best spinner and post to different article submission sites with backlink (to $$ site).

The law will be different from country to country, please answer in connection with US.

(Im using proxies for all crawling/posting, don't worry )

Final note on overall project idea: Input a list of keywords pointing to each page and a starting value for "posts per day". Execution plan: Create the spun article with link to $$ site. Crawl for blogs/sites and make comments untill "posts per is accomplished". Then wait for tomorrow and repeat with (starting value * 1.5). The idea is to slowly build pyramids or linkwheels per day and point them to money site.

All comments are welcome, please let me know if Im waaaaay astray

Best regards,
foRei

#3 is legal IF you follow some rules. I believe you just need to provide valid contact information and a working unsubscribe link. #4 is legal if your assumption of "non-copyrighted" is correct. (Almost EVERYTHING is copyrighted, even if it's distributed under a very generous license.) If not, it could technically be a copyright violation for using copyrighted content outside the terms of license, but I don't know if anyone submitting to article directories is willing to take you to court. #1 and #2 are perfectly legal as far as I know.

if 1&2 were illegal this forum wouldn't exist cuz we'd all be in jail... lol 3&4 start getting more interesting but like cheese said if you do it right you should still be fine.

golface72 said:

if 1&2 were illegal this forum wouldn't exist cuz we'd all be in jail... lol 3&4 start getting more interesting but like cheese said if you do it right you should still be fine.

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Illegal? lol you are on the wrong site my friend

nothing is illegal in the world of building links, get at dirty as you want haha

Thank you for your answers, greatly appreciated

Absolutely not.

You can be as good or bad as you want to be.

You will make progress really fast if you are constantly pushing the limits.