After further thought, the NOSCRIPT option would not work because it would be displayed on your website for those with js disabled. Another, more sound option is the following which sould be applied to the bottom of the main content that's being stolen.
Without wanting to start any arguments here, the simple answer is that they don't know any better and they don't care. It's all about having a web presence. Something, anything on the internet. It's what everyone is taught these days. Plus that's the beauty of the web, you don't have to know, understand...
There are literally millions of bots that run the internet everyday including content scrapers. The answer is not to stop them because there's no way to account for all of them, but you can expose the sites that apply them by adding a simple javascript...
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