yeah i really hate people doing this. i also write my own articles and have experianced similar issues in the past. i mainly find out about people stealing my content by copyscape, i normally email the person informing them they have stolen my content and they have 48 hours to remove it before i will inform their web host, the search engines (and threaten they could penalize him). normally that is enough to get them to remove it, but one other occassion i did have to threaten to take them to court, and within about 3 hours of that threat, they deleted my content.
i hate people who are like this. we work hard to provide quality content, then people pass it off as their own! it really annoys me. good luck with it mate and keep us updated
