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According the Monkey Bite's reader who sent this to me, I am "the last person on the internet" to hear about [Copyscape][1].
Fair enough.
Back when I [wrote about Reputation Defender][2] a bunch of comment came in suggesting that Reputation Defender should expand their services to track stolen blog content. The problem for many blog owners is that spam blogs (splogs) often scrape out content and then include it on their own sites.
Most of the time splogs aren't claiming credit for what you write, but they are taking your content and making money off it via advertising and that amounts to copyright infringement in many cases.
Copyscape lets you track these people down using their search engine. The premium version of the site allows for automated tracking at the rate of $0.05 per search and allows you to track your responses.
But Copyscape doesn't provide any way of actually dealing with people stealing your work, which is what people wanted Reputation Defender or someone else to offer.
But until such a service arises, you can at least use Copyscape to keep tabs on who's ripping off your content.
[1]: http://copyscape.com "Copyscape"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/need_someone_to.html "Monkey Bites on Reputation Defender"
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