Scraping is a common practice among many webmasters. And when you have millions of dollars backing your efforts, it's called Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
If you're against the practice of Google scraping the content off your website, but you have AdSense on your websites, it's called website monetizing.
For those of you reading this thread, placing duplicate articles on your website is a short term traffic strategy. To make this a long term sustainable, simply send quality text links to that article and you're almost guaranteed a high ranking in the Majors.