It's bad enough just to drive traffic to a blog, but it is reprehensible when the blog to which traffic is being driven has stolen an article from another author's website in its entirety.
That's not kosher...and it's probably illegal (copyright violation).
And it doesn't make it any better just because other people do it. Yo momma would have some choice words for that.
Frankly, I believe your determination to blacken the good name of the author derives from pride unwilling to admit wrong-doing. How utterly tire some!