He's only doing that on his mirrors.
It probably is, from an SEO point of view, the smart thing to do. I wouldn't call it cheating. Yes, it sort of sucks to not be receiving that 0.0000000001% of link juice a recip on a free site mirror might give a link list, but maybe it's more harmful to link to hundreds of different sets of duplicate content on a page. Who knows?
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