Fighting scrapers - another form of copyright theft

ProBlogger has a great article on how to fight scrapers that if you have any content that is popular you might want to read. A scraper is someone who goes to popular Web and blog articles and copy/pastes them onto their site. They use programs to do this automatically and they then place advertising on the pages so that they earn money from your hard work. Even though they are using a tool to do it, this is still a copyright violation and can be pursued. Personally, I've found many scrapers on Blogger - but it's relatively easy to shut down Blogger pages by writing to Google's DMCA department. But even if they aren't on Blogger, you can often get the ads taken off their site - as most reputable ad-serving companies have policies against plaigiarism and will not allow you to host ads on pages with stolen content.