[clinton]

Dave maybe he thought yours was a perfect example of sites and decided to copy some text

[davep]

Yes, a picture of me would top it off too 

[clinton]

Well didnt wana say dave A picie of your wallet would have topped it off

[spencer davies]

We had some of our content used recently, a polite e mail was enough to get it sorted, although about three years ago a company in North Kent not only stole our text content but were stealing our band width
with an image feed from my site to theirs! We cut the feed and replaced the image with lovely picture of three naked blokes having a bum... laughed for an hour solid when the image 'popped up' on his site.

S

[Carpet Dawg]

Regarding duplicate content.

If the same content is duplicated on the same url (website) then this is duplicate content and some people will tell you that you may be penalized  : google must be busy....

However, content shared on different websites is seen as "syndication". Twitter, facebook, all news related websites, pretty much all web 2.0's, blogs etc all use and rely on syndication or RSS.

Even the likes of amazon and ebay use a ton of duplicate content throughout thier site i.e. product reviews and discriptions etc Doesn't exactly hurt thier search engine rankings...

Tony