If you have published content on the web for a while, you no doubt have had someone steal your writings.  

I stumbled across a great blog post detailing various options on dealing with content / copyright theives.

 BTW - A great site to check for copyright violations is www.copyscape.com/.

 Here is the article. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/