Since you have a WP.com ID, you have two options:

1) http://wordpress.com/complaints/
2) when logged in, go to that blog. Copy the URL of a post it stole from you, then go to your grey admin bar and under Blog Info, hit Report As Spam. Put the info in there, including that link and the link to your original article. That gets staff attention right away.

WordPress.com will not accept my question from the support page, because I am not hosted by WordPress.com. This guy is violating copyright law, AND WordPress.com's own terms of service, but I cannot find anyplace on WordPress.com for reporting violations of terms of service.

Squidoo shut down a plagiarist in less than 12 hours after I reported him. Google even responded to my report in about 48 hours. WordPress is maddeningly (is that a word?) silent. Have any of you had any luck in getting attention from WordPress regarding this issue when the violator is hosted here?

Thanks for listening to my rant.
Tejasca

What can you do now? Run a virus/spyware scan and move on.

SHIT! What to do now?

-Copyright © 2008 Exposing Sploggers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, or posted on my.zestead.com/austindwilawyer, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact [email redacted] so we can take legal action immediately.

I plan to substitute subsequent violators URL. It's kind of annoying to do this, but I think it has some effect.

If you've already complained and they've copied a new post, send a new complaint for that post.

And under Blog Stats, I have an Incoming Link there and when I click on it - it takes me to the austindwilawyer site.

Making a DMCA complaint is a little bit of work but basically consists of filling in the blanks. Our experience is that they are often successful.

I leave it to you to Google to find the details.

Imagine you've just googled a distinctively original phrase from your own blog and you find it occurs on a number of (non-WP) sites - how do you check out such sites safely?

Hello,

Thank you for your note. It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged
infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the
text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office website:
http://www.copyright.gov/) and other applicable intellectual property
laws. In this case, this means that if we receive proper notice of
infringement, we will forward that notice to the responsible web site
publisher.

To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written
communication (by fax or regular mail, not by email) that sets forth the
items specified below. Please note that pursuant to that Act, you may be
liable to the alleged infringer for damages (including costs and
attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that you own an item when
you in fact do not. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether you have the
right to request removal from our service, we suggest that you first
contact an attorney.

To expedite our ability to process your request, please use the following
format (including section numbers):

1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has
been infringed upon. For example, "The copyrighted work at issue is the
text that appears on http://www.legal.com/legal_page.html."

2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing upon the copyrighted
work listed in item #1 above. You must identify each page that allegedly
contains infringing material by providing its URL.

3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Google to contact
you (email address is preferred).

4. Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that use
of the copyrighted materials described above on the allegedly infringing
webpages is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."

5. Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury,
that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the
copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an
exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

6. Sign the paper.

7. Send the written communication to the following address:

Google, Inc.
Attn: AdSense Support, DMCA complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043

OR Fax to:

(650) 618-8507, Attn: AdSense Support, DMCA complaints

Regards,

The Google AdSense Team

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http://will86aber.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/the-disaster-that-is-penndel-borough-officials/

Can ANYONE explain this?

I noticed yesterday that this splogger changed his format/theme and SOMEWHERE on his blog (I can't find the page now) he said that WordPress wasn't redirecting his site (?), and for a brief time (?) yesterday he had redirected his readers to http://www.stewart-kirkpatrick.com/souralba/ so naturally I thought he had two separate blogs, and Mr. Kirkpatrick got my comments on his blog.

It would be helpful if we could figure this out so it doesn't happen again. You'll notice that this splogger's daily posts are quite prolific. I apologize for the confusion, Mr. Kirkpatrick. I'm sitting here scratching my head because I can't seem to find that redirect page. I think there are at least two people would like to know what's going on here. This austindwilawyer is a piece of work.

Raincoaster: I did report him to Adsense two days ago and also to the domain host of myzestead.com yesterday. I don't know if this caused the splogger to link back to original posts as My2bucks said or what.

Luminaria - Your last comment (11:23) confused me. Are you saying that the myzestead scrapers moved our content to a new hosting site?
It sounds like this is like a game of whack a mole.

I really appreciate all of the suggestions.