Do scraped or borrowed articles with my links still pass page rank?

[Ron10]

I wrote some articles for Ezine Articles a few years back and i still see links in the ose to my site that are from these articles that were borrowed  from the Ezine Articles bank.  Do the links in these articles still count toward my site including link juice and anchor text or does google discount them as duplicate content?

I was told that Google counts these links for about 3 weeks and then discounts them as duplicate content so it's like they don't exist.  Any truth to this or should i make the articles on my site available for people to copy and paste into their blogs as long as they keep  my links intact?

Thanks,

Ron

[WilliamCarr]

Links from Ezine Articles wont help you.

Check out this video from Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuhSmwsL7s