[jonahx]

> Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers.

Tangent but: Does google have any official way to combat this?

It seems like an easy enough problem to solve. As the content-creator, you could submit your content first to some kind of registry, so that google could identify you as the true author. Does anything like this exist? If not, why not?

[stordoff]

It seems like this could be open to abuse. Not all content-creators will register their content, so find some unregistered content to copy, and then register it yourself.

[mtberatwork]

This is an old problem and the primary solution is to delay the content in your feeds/sitemaps by X number of minutes so that Google can spider the content on your website first while flagging the spam site as duplicate content. Another tip is to add a canonical link back to your article in the content of feed articles. e.g. rel="canonical"