David E. Ross wrote:
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Recently, I found that some of my content has been copied into
commercial pages. Has anyone else here have this happen? How did you
deal with it?
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Mostly by ignoring it. The scumbags who do this are generally just
low-significance copyists trying to bloat search engines, and they're
also trickiest to track down. OTOH, if you do find them, then they roll
over with a single letter - they're only after _cheap_ content to
steal, not anything that's troublesome.
If it's serious copying, then legal threats are still quite effective.
Decent laser printing and a well laid out standard C&D does it, you
don't even need to blow money on your briefs. Somehow these people
annoy me less than the scumbags - at least they're _tangible_.
Good markup on your own site helps if you ever come to an actual legal
wrangle (which you probably won't). Go read Creative Commons for some
useful tips. Good for provability post facto, not much use for
pre-emptive discouragement though. These scumbags aren't even real
thieves of value, they're just lowlifes looking for Turing-passable
lorem ipsum.
If you've got binary assets on there not just text (particularly
images) then you should be using both visible and invisble
watermarking. Visible discourages, invisible traces afterwards.
Funniest bit is when thery actually copy your copyright warnings with
your own name left in them.
Plagiarism 
