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• Find Image Plagiarism with FeelImage

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Products, Articles, News, Art, Artists, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Feel Image, Fingerprinting, Image, Image Search, Photography, Search

  New photo search engine FeelImage aims to make it easier to search for photographs by their “feeling”, in particular their color and time. Though it might seem like something of a novelty, the ability for users to search for “purple flower” or “red car” might have an unintended side effect, enabling

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• Attributor Signs Up Reuters

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Products, Articles, News, Attributor, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Fingerprinting, Msm, Plagiarism Reuters, Rss, Scraping

  In a press release dated today, content monitoring company Attributor announced that they have signed a deal with the British news service Reuters. This deal closely mirrors a similar arrangement Attributor announced with the Associated Press in May of this year. According to its press release, Attributor will “fingerprint original

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• Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting: A War in Terminology

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:32 pm

  Tags: Articles, Prevention, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Embedding, Fingerprinting, Hashing, Image Editing, Sha, Watermarking

  itself from how fingerprinting works. Fingerprinting Fingerprinting has at least two definitions when it comes to protecting content. The first deals with taking each copy of your content and making it unique to the person who receives it. This way, if the work is shared, you know exactly which person spread the work initially. A

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• Attributor Launches Content Monitoring Service

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Articles, News, Products, Attributor, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Fingerprinting, Google, Music Lyrics, Plagiarism, Recipes, Search Engines, Seo, Song Lyrics, Yahoo

  Web startup Attributor, previously covered here, has announced the launch of their content monitoring and analysis platform and is openly accepting customers for their service. According to Attributor, the system “works by allowing publishers to register and digitally fingerprint each piece of content” and then checking for uses of

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• Making the Switch: Going From Partial to Full Feeds

  Published: November 28, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Articles, Prevention, Products, Antileech, Blogger, Blogging, Content Theft, Copyfeed, Copyright Infringement, Digital Fingerprinting, Full Feeds, Partial Feeds, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Wordpress

  Content theft and RSS scraping is not going away. As more and more spammers get into the game and the tools they use improve in effectiveness, the problem is only going to get worse. Because of this, RSS feeds are going to remain vulnerable and bloggers will continue to seek out ways to protect them. However, readers have come to expect and demand

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• Not so welcome to Japan any longer

  Published: December 9, 2007, 8:16 pm

  Tags: News Stiri, Stiri Care Conteaza, De Necrezut, Din Politica, Fingerprint Japan, Fingerprinting Discrimination, Human Rights, Immigration Bureau, International Terrorist, Welcome To Japan, Yokoso Japan

  Japan is still purporting to celebrate “Yokoso Japan” or Welcome to Japan just as it is preparing to inflict on every foreign visitor measures that are harassing, time-consuming, unnecessary, and would be illegal if done to Japanese citiz...

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• Big Brother Is Watching

  Published: December 23, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Fingerprinting, Disney, Fbi

  I recently read the the FBI has started one of the world largest biometric databases for United States citizens. In the early reports of this story they listed the project at having at least one billion (or $1,000,000,000) dollars for this initiative. The effects are already starting to trickle down the system at the local level. As with any

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• Furstration and Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: April 30, 2008, 2:37 pm

  Tags: Articles, Dmca, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Attributor, Bitscan, Blogwerx, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyscape, Fingerprinting, Google, Plagiarism, Search Engines, Searching

  of their work on the Web. Fingerprinting technology exists, but is only available to those with deep pockets. Better Host Accountability: Hosts often ignore DMCA notices and spam reports because they realize that there is very little chance of them being sued. Though much of this is due to the nature of copyright law in the United States, one

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