Content theft - Where can I go from here?

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Published on 2010-10-07T22:15:41Z Indexed on 2011/06/26 16:31 UTC
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I am the webmaster of a very successful blog in a fairly small niche. Recently our success has started to bite us with people copying posts on the site without consent and trying to pass them off as their own work.

Most sites stop as soon as you contact them but there is one in particular that is a blogger site which persists in passing off our content as their own. Every post we find we report to Google and they have been fairly good at taking the posts offline within a day or two but this isn't good enough or a long term solution.

Given the nature of what is being blogged about after 24 hours the post is pretty much useless so I need some way to just stop them from taking our content?

Any ideas? I don't want to go down the route of using a third party for people to get our RSS feed but I guess that is one option?

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