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Image Detecting Search Engines' Legal Fight Continues

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-thumbnails dept.

Mr. steve points to this New York Times article about sites like ditto.com and the new google image-search engine, writing: "Search engines that corral images are raising Napsteresque copyright issues." Expect to see a lot more sites with prominent copying policies and "no-download" images, and trivial circumvention of both. If an image is part of your site's design, you wouldn't truly want to prevent downloads, would you? ;)

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  1. Wouldn't that? by wbav · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't that make ie/netscape/mozilla/opera/ect the program you are downloading with?

    I can just see it now:
    Judge shuts down microsoft for distubting software that allows you to violate copyrights by downloading images. Microsoft was shut down Monday for it's popular browser Internet Exploder. A representive from the company said "We were shocked. I mean, we didn't really expect the software to work in the first place."

    Of course we won't see such a headline, but still, turnabout is fair play.

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  2. Sometime in the future... by Fun+In+The+Sun · · Score: 1, Funny

    Child: Mommy, why was daddy taken?

    Mother: Because he forgot to disable his browser cache honey.

  3. m$ breaking the DMCA with image toolbar? by BrookHarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just started using IE's image toolbar, nice thing, i was on a site that tried to protect the images with javascript, i just clicked on image and the toolbar popped up, clicked save picture...

    Is m$ breaking the DMCA with thier circumvention?