Thank you.

It's 6am here, despite what the time stamp says :)

"we’ve installed Tynt’s Tracer tool on our blog which uses a bit of javascript wizardry to concatenate attribution and, as of now, particular CC license information to content copied from our site."

In terms of a "wish list" for future WP upgrades, this would be *awesome*.
Obviously, it would have to be something WP does, not us users.

The other was a bit weird. It led back to a blog(?) that seemed to consist entirely of excerpts from other blogs. That is, each post was a quotation from the original blog post followed by "to read the rest of this excellent post click here" which led back to my blog.

So was this a notification that they had chosen my post that day to feature as an excellent one? Is that OK in blogland? Is that considered spam in blogland?

In case it matters, the name of that blog was something on the order of "How to find inspiration" and my blog post had been inspired by a photoessay in the Guardian weekend section which I acknowleged.

DJCNOR

I work in an odd version of non-profit retail—sort of like a thrift shop but not—we sell materials for arts/crafts to teachers and the general public. I'm likely more cynical than you are. Why would someone compromise their integrity for 50¢? Would you sell your integrity for such a small amount? How much would you sell your integrity for?

Never mind, this is off topic.

There still are no internet cops or regulators.

In your analogy, I'd call the cops! But there aren't any internet cops are there?

Actually, in real life, most thieves are small, and are victims of "opportunity" (oh! no one's looking, I'll just have that for myself) and I'd likely confront them. "Excuse me, you must have forgotten "x" that you put into your pocket. Do you still want that?"

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The ads are the reason. They set the blog up and watch the money come in. It's very easy to do. Whether or not it is right is up to you, but you will find none of these as proper comments because thousands of users have said it is spam. Akismet treats it as spam.

And we still cannot do anything.

Thanks for that.

And given we have no control over the owner, no control over the registrar, no control over the host what can we actually do?

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I usually leave a comment telling them that I'm going to bring down a DMCA on them, and sometimes they remove the post. Sometimes, of course, the just delete the comment, and sometimes they publish the comment so everyone can see how mean I am :D

I know I can always "change the words" in my writing myself, but I wanted to explore trying it out here. Am I lost?

Misguided perhaps.

This is WordPress.com, which also hosts blogs for free. It doesn't scramble words automatically. Automatic word scrambling will not necessarily protect you against charges of plagiarism; only writing original work will do that. You can refer to what others have reported, you can summarize what they've said, you can even quote from what they've said (moderately), but the procedure in the blogosphere is to always give credit to the source and to link to it as well.