Indeed, I have been writing online for almost seven years now and it is really disheartening to see others taking my work and putting it on their own site to try and make money off ads. Sometimes the stories will go up on scraping sites in minutes and unfortunately there is not much one can realistically do about it since many of these sites are hosting and run overseas where DCMA claims are a crapshoot and even if the host does comply it just pops up somewhere else. Google has been getting better about pushing these duplicate results down or even hiding them from search results but it is still sad to see. One neat thing about Steemit is that it's more of a closed platform and it might be easier to reign in IP theft by having the community as a whole curating the content (as opposed to or in addition to automated algorithms) and, as you mentioned, rewarding the reporting of these shady posters that claim others' content as their own.
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