After receiving a Google Alert with my domain name on it (for link:www.untwistedvortex.com), I found a website that had scraped 40 of my articles from my full feed, in their entirety, and put them up exactly as retrieved. The website in question, elanso.com, is based in China so it's not like I could get my point across even if I did find out who owned the site. Last week, I reported the site to Google and a day later, found they had 39 more articles than what I found before (for a total of 79).
A few minutes ago, I entered "site:elanso.com untwistedvortex.com" into my Google search box and found they were still there, but with this under each post title link: This site may harm your computer.
In my opinion, de-indexing the site would have been enough, but this is like icing on the cake. Anyone arriving at the site using Google's search engine will think twice seriously before bypassing the warning. In this case, I didn't even need to use the free and easy way to defeat the scraper.
Whoever says that Google doesn't act on spam notifications will change their tune when they see something like this.
