Ever Had Your Pages Stolen and then De-indexed?

Update: After mailing and threatening to report the content thief to Google AdSense and Search he promptly removed all of my content off his site - I thought I may as well put the shits up him and it seemed to work. I’ll watch to see if those particular pages are re-indexed as I’m still unsure wether it’s because he copied them or because Google is just fucked at the moment.

Apparently I’m not the only one.

I have so far managed to track 6 articles of mine that I put on my website that have been copied, which have led to the 6 pages on my site being de-indexed while the person who stole them is indexed, with them being the only website in Google with those articles now.

The articles in question cost me $6 each which isn’t much, but that’s $36 I spent on content to rank for 6 phrases which means the thief in question has took money out of my pocket and is now the only one who can actually profit off the articles.

Given I have spent over $1,800 in content with over 300 pages on this particular site, can I really afford to lose anymore in this fashion? No.

Why exactly have Google decided another site that came after mine should be indexed for the article and I should be de-indexed, exactly?

It seems I certainly aren’t alone and there’s plenty of people affected by this, so why is it still happening 6 months after Googleguy took a look in to the issue at this persons blog and knowing about all of the people on Webmasterworld who have suffered.

Should I just continue to purchase original content and have it stolen and then de-indexed. Is that what you suggest, Google?

Fucking sort it out, you have had long enough.