This guy has no concept of copyright law.
It is true that you cannot copyright basic poker strategy information. Copyright protects expression, not ideas. If he had rewritten all your articles in his own words, but copied each one of your advices and ideas, he would not be infringing.
But, if he did copy your stuff word for word (as you claim), then that is obvious infringement.
Now, unless this blog was started by Art Santella, he is still infringing:
xhttp://pokerdeluxe.blogspot.com/2006/01/can-aggressiveness-be-learned.html
See copyscape comparison with Poker Pages article
Personally, I prefer to exercise all legal options available to punish copyright infringers. I generally get infringers removed from Google's index, get their hosting service to remove their website, and even get ICANN to revoke their domain name if they are using fake registration information. If I can find out where they live, I will even sue them for unpaid licensing fees and for any unjust enrichment they gained by using my content.
People think just because they use fake registration information they can get away with murder. Little do they know that copyright holders can easily subpoena hosting companies for an infringer's Billing Information. So if the infringer paid for his hosting with paypal, credit cads, or checks, their addresses will be found and they can get sued.
I can do this pretty cost effectively, since our lawyer has done each of these things a thousand times and has all the forms and contacts (he also represent porn webmasters, and man, if you think our business is tough, their business is like 10 times tougher).
But I usually cut the webmaster a little slack if they remove the content ASAP. If they give me lip, however, I may reconsider legal actions.
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