Matt Cutts recently posted in his blog a request for all webmasters to report spam to Google. I think this definitely counts as spam.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/update-jagger-contacting-google/
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
There seems to be many of these scraper sites cropping up and if you are the offended webmaster, you need to take action to protect yourself. Everyone that has been posting about these issues should at least be reporting these sites to Google and Yahoo. Since you also happen to have the webmaster’s email, it wouldn’t hurt to send some sort of cease and decist letter. Maybe start with a cordial email, then advance to something that looks like legal trouble (I’m sure there are plenty of these sorts of documents around the web you could re-fashion). You might just scare them into complying.