Image Detecting Search Engines' Legal Fight Continues

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? ;)

Comments

Wouldn't that?

[wbav]

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.

m$ breaking the DMCA with image toolbar?

[BrookHarty]

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?