So, dumb ass has gone and copied some of my content. I left a comment on his blog asking him to please link to my content and not simply copy and paste it. His response was to alter it subtly and delete my comment. Reading over the rest of his posts and doing some basic googling, I have found that the vast majority of his postings may be ‘lifted’ from other web pages.

So, what would you do?

• Name and shame? - Create a detailed list of this guys copy paste antics and publish it here to let others judge him;
• Another letter or two? - One didn’t work, did he think I would go away?;
• C & D - Doesn’t that only work for one post that I wrote and he copied, so it wouldn’t help the others;
• DMCA - I’m a Canadian, can I use that evil piece of legislation for ‘good’ even though US laws don’t apply to me;
• Combo - one or more of the above;
• Zfactor - Your input, any suggestions?

FYI: The pages this tool has copied from look to be largely, backwards, out of the way posts by authors who have long left the online world. So I expect little help from the others this guy has ripped of should I contact them. Also, the guy is using a cheap blogger account.

Any advice from someone in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

Update for John302 (aka the doppelblogger):
Both screenshots taken April 18th, 2006.

Now, I suppose, given an infinite number of monkeys with blogs in an infinite number of universes, that the same list could have been written twice. With all three tables in the same order. With the same capitalization. Co-ink-y-dink? I think not. Fess up plagiarst. You have already admitted to removing the images once I imposed hotlinking protection, why not admit you copied the text verbatim?

I’d like to use the tags I have made for posts as their keywords in the Meta field. It makes good SEO, even if keyword tags are going out of style, it can’t hurt. This is what I have so far:

[php]
< ?php if (function_exists('UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet')) {
// Check if UTW exists, if so then do this: ?>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”< ?php echo UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet('tagsettextonly'); ?>“>
< ?php } ?>
[/php]

I place this little tidbit of code within the header PHP within the following if statement so that it only shows up on pages or posts:
» Read the rest of the entry..

I need a wordpress plugin or method that allows me to show code in posts such that readers can cut and paste it out of the page and into their own application and have it work. Any ideas?