How often do WordPress bloggers experience content theft?

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    wildwanderingirl · Member ·

    I’m not having a problem HERE right now…but on a different art site I had work stolen, and the issue has not been resolved (and might never be). I was just wondering, in general, how often is content theft reported at WP? I have hundreds of un-signed images on my blog, far too many to go back and re-do…but I realize that thieves can and do skillfully remove signatures/watermarks from images if they want the work badly enough. I am only now looking into the question here at WP. For that matter, how DOES a blogger discover that their work has been stolen? At the other site I mentioned, another artist was good enough to alert me to the problem and showed me where a copy of my work was displayed…

    I would think being connected with Creative Commons would be a wise move, but will that really prevent theft?

    Thank you for any extra advice you can provide! I’m getting rather paranoid…

    Sincerely,

    Krystal

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    timethief · Member ·

    We Volunteers do not have access to numbers and cannot help with that at all. There are over 38 million here and content theft is rampant throughout the internet. If you don’t want it to be stolen don’t post it because there is no measure you can take that will universally prevent all content theft. All you can do is attempt to deter some thieves.

    If you use the Duotone theme right click is disabled. It’s not available on any other themes here and will not become available as it creates a false sense of security. Anyone can find instructions on the internet and get around it in less than 20 seconds flat. What’s best is watermarking your images or not placing any images and/or text you don’t want stolen on the internet at all. If you are referring to images this may help http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/19/watermark-your-blog-images/

    See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/

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    timethief · Member ·

    For that matter, how DOES a blogger discover that their work has been stolen?

    Use Google search.
    Use copyscape http://www.copyscape.com/
    Use TinEye reverse image search http://www.tineye.com/

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