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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. Don't sign up for NYTimes: by cavemanf16 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the story without the signup restriction: http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/06/technology/c ircuits/06IMAG.html

  2. 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?

  3. robots.txt by mj6798 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The guy's site (http://www.goldrush1849.com/) still does not have a robots.txt file. Either Kelly is incompetent, or he does this deliberately to get other people to trick other people into "using" his content and sue them later.