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Google will apparently remove sites that are copying copyright content: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

So he will definitely outrank them if he owns the content.

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You could add some unique words/sentences to the pages which will make googling for "mirrors" easy (i.e. automated) so sending copyright notices to Google can be almost fully automated.

Google will also pay those sites infringing your copyright to display their pay-per-click ads.

They will comply with some removal requests, but sending a letter for each case of infringing content does not scale well.

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