If so, do you care, and if you do, what can you do to stop them?
Open Switch, Billy the Blogging Poet and Robert Scoble and their commenters chime in on Internet copyright, Creative Commons and splogs.
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Hi Coturnix:
I was curious about this. Recently through a few trackbacks, I discovered this blog site where I found all my recent (perhaps even older) posts listed. What does this mean? And why would anyone bother? Should I worry? Please let me know here or via email.
Bitacle is the most notorious such site. One of the linked posts above (and comments) deals specifically with Bitacle and that is about the extent to which I know about it.