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@Chief will probably start caring the same day as @zhuanyi starts his LEB company :P
You don't assume correctly. First, it is not scrapping, it is web syndicated content publishing (RSS). This format was defined exactly to do that: publish your content on other websites. I know some people debated it, there was a couple of judgements. But IMHO, anything published as a public RSS feed is exactly that: republisheable public content. If you're unhappy with that, use another format, limit the access (for example availability only to members) or the content.
Second, DMCA (or similar) exists for a reason, no host should do anything without it. After all, maybe there is an agreement, or maybe "Chief" is happy with the backlinks and the traffic "he" gets from this website.
+1 if you don't want your content syndicated then do something about it, so as I have said he probably does not mind.
A note to the LEA... If that site ever tries to make money by scraping your copyrighted content and delivering ads or collecting commissions, you can notify the ad/commission company which should cut them off. If they fail to shut down the ads/commissions, they would be knowingly participating in fraud at that point which has much more serious teeth behind it than copyright infringement, and any company who pays publishers will never financially support a site that could cause them to lose their entire business through lawsuits (directed at the ad/commission company plus at the companies in the ads). Also, the ad/commission company would communicate with the violator (and probably hold their funds) without you having to fight that battle with the offender who probably will not listen to you.
Just saying, in case it ever comes to that.
Hmm, (lowend.info) practical but unethical. There's a slight Grey area between pirating and syndicating. I personally fetch the RSS from LEB, but never put it as the main course.