One of the constant annoyances that comes with publishing online is content thieves. Short individual serving reviews like the ones I write for this site are perfect pickings for low lives who siphon RSS feeds. Even with my incredible disregard for basic grammar and spelling, my feed is being repurposed by at least three thieves at the time of this writing. Basically what these jerks do is take the content of my feed and repost it on their own sites without giving me credit. These thieves generally are hard to track down and even if found, it takes a DMCA suit. In most cases, these people are temporary and will quit their sites after a few months. So by the time the suit would be getting anywhere they would be gone anyway.

I've come to the conclusion that this kind of thing simply comes with the territory like comment trolls (I'm looking at you Greg). What sticks in my craw however is that at least two of these guys are actually getting huge traffic off my stuff right now. In one case he's getting ten times my traffic. Its like he stole my bike and then used it to win a race. On one hand I'm frustrated and on the other, hey the guy at least has the dignity to use my stuff properly.

Its gotten to the point where I need to start stamping my posts. I don't want to do it since it clutters things up but its probably the only way to cut into their traffic and direct back here.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with content pirates or can tell me how the heck this guy can take the same content here, repost it with no frills and trounce me in traffic, let me know. Thanks

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