I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this but last night i made a post on my wordpress powered blog here: http://blog.twostepmedia.co.uk/css3-still-novelty-or-usable-in-everyday-web-development/
then this morning i see this: http://buzzgamesnews.blogspot.com/2011/01/css3-still-novelty-or-usable-in.html
Is this right? Can someone completely clone a post of mine or am i overreacting?
Yes, they can. There is nothing strange or technically complex about that. And before you ask – no, it’s pretty much unrealistic to protect public web page from being copied.
My process to deal with such goes roughly like this:
Contact blog owner and point out that your posts are not meant to be copied and that is not allowed under license/terms ( © in Two Step Media © 2010 ) of your blog.
If not successful report to his hosting. Additional mean and pleasant step is to report to advertisement companies that are used on site. Most of the time scraping is done for profit so hitting profit is exactly what hurts and makes a point.
Give up or get legal stuff involved.
Since blog in question is hosted by Google and not self-hosted it’s very likely 2 (if not 1) will get it done.
Sadly you’ve encountered a blog that aggregates content from other peoples blogs and posts it automatically to another blog. Plugins like WP Robot make it easy to parse blog RSS feeds and scrape posts. Other than reporting the blog which most likely won’t do anything, you’re out of luck.
This must be done via rss theft.You should use rss anti leach plugins if available for your cms. And disable full feeds. Moreover, you can also add a small watermark on your images via using Water Mark Plugin.Also ping your post, so google indexes them fast. If he is cloning your post, don;t worry he will not be able to rank higher than your post.