Tools: Tracking down copyright violations?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Collin Turner noted: <<That's why it's always a good plan to  
watermark the piece. Metadata, ect. Sure, they can strip it, but  
they'd Really have to know it's there. 8 out of 10 they're not going  
to go to the trouble of stripping metadata out.>>

It's certainly true that some people have been caught red-handed in  
that way. Wasn't it RoboHelp that got caught doing this a couple  
years back?

But I suspect you've got your numbers reversed: more likely, 8 of 10  
thieves will drag-select the text, copy it, and paste the text into  
their own blog or site management tool rather than downloading your  
file. I could be entirely wrong about the proportions, but the  
important point is that watermarking alone won't catch most plagiarism.

Now if you're talking about images, that's another story entirely.  
There, watermarking makes very good sense.

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