Intentionally altering your site so that the automated scraper pastes personal identity all over the target site is an act of vigilantism, and feeds the wild West that the author laments. Hell, digging up identity and then using it against a person is vigilante in itself -- the content of the site modification is extremely passive aggressive. 4chan calls this "dropping dox".
Re:One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
by function_seven on Saturday April 09, 2011 @03:19PM
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I didn't even bother to look at the screenshot of the altered site. You're completely right. Edited.
Well, it doesn't look like the OP has actually done any vigilantism (at least not yet):
I simply altered the code of my site so that the next time his scraper tried to access its content, it wouldn’t get what it expected. Within an hour, the homepage and every page of his site looked like this (redacted to protect the guilty)
What he did can only target the guilty party, as all he did was change his own site's content.