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Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Debevecc — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:30:38 -0000

Is there anyway to do a search on a directory full of images I have thousands of pictures and it would take forever to search online for them all.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

John — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:55:57 -0000

Hi,
I have been trying to find out where a photo came from online (I believe someone is stealing photos and has made a fake facebook page) but I am missing how TinEye and Google Image searches work, because all it seems to do is give you back the link from where you've dragged the photo in question from in the first place. This obviously doesn't do any good. Am I using it the wrong way?

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Deana_girl — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:27:07 -0000

I had an employer steal my private photos and email them to my ex co workers is there anything that I can do??? Deana_girl@yahoo.com

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Shorttyy713 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:19:08 -0000

Hello, I'm fil and I would like to try this product because I've got people in the past stealing my photos and I found atleast two that did. And this was on myspace and xanga sites before privacy issues were taken into action. I would also like to expand tinyeye's search engine as well as help my friends protect and securing their images.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

jimgoldstein — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:37:59 -0000

TinEye is still growing their index of images. They have hundreds of billions of images to index and they're really only hitting the tip of the iceberg. With out a doubt though they will catch up and their service will prove to be invaluable. Definitely keep an eye on them

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Sarahgerber28 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:24:26 -0000

I searched for my photo which I know is online, because I posted it, and it came back with 0 images found.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

frankwinters — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:03:43 -0000

An update.

I used Bing.com search engine to find my photo of the Brooklyn Bridge. Bing found 10 other unauthorized uses of it! Tineye only found 4, But bing didn't find all of the ones that Tineye did. So I don't know how many times the photo has been used but its more than a dozen.

I did put the image up on a stock sight and within less than an hour someone put it in their shopping cart. I guess I've been asleep at the switch.

Frank

P.S. Just played around with Bing again. It thinks one of my very simple images of a lake with lots of sky and water have been copied all over the world dozen of times but it is picking up anything similar at all and tagging it as a copy. I guess there are still some bugs, eh?

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

frankwinters — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:07:15 -0000

Hi Jim,

I found your entry on Tineye by accident just when I needed it. I discovered yesterday that one of my popular images posted on my blog was being used by Nerve.com. Then today I discovered another user (Pace University -- another coincidence - I'm an Alumnus) -- both unauthorized. Next I backed into your entry about Tineye. I tried it and got 4 additional hits on the image (a shot of the Brooklyn Bridge).

I sent emails to both of the first two and I'll send one to the other 4. But I guess if Tineye can find 4 with their limited database I might have more.

This is enough to make me go back to stock photography!

I've had 25,000 hits on the Brooklyn Bridge image. I wonder how many sales I might have had if it had been for sale. I used to think that hey - its only a low res image. But that's all you need for web use.

Yeah -- time to go back to stock, methinks. (I do have a gallery in my town and our first 3 months were great -- I am much more interested iselling prints to actual people but a few bucks from the net would come in handy)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Frank

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

iancpenguin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:07:01 -0000

Between this and the watermark explanations, you've helped me a lot today in putting my foot out the door. I knew I needed to watermark, but I wouldn't have thought about the copyright things either, just like you said you didn't.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Arlene — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:22:50 -0000

TinEye does not always work. Each photographer has to remember to put some unseenable codes in the pics before they upload it in the internet. I heard tineye can recognise the pics if the photographers did so (eventhough the pics are re-named by the thieves).

The safest way to protect your pics from being used illegally by someone else is to put watermarks allover it.

Does anyone know a more powerful tool than tineye ?

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Aaron — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:09:02 -0000

Not sure if you have any invites left, but if you do I'd love to try it. I do portrait photography and would love to know who's "borrowing" my images (http://dmphotogallery.com/).

Aaron

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Cindi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:29:16 -0000

Sounds like a very handy tool! I'm late to the party too, but I'd love an invite if there are any left to be found.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Tony — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:41:38 -0000

Realizing that I've come into this party a month late, if you have any invites left, I'd love one. While I dont think I'm nearly important enough to steal from, this sounds facinating.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

nikki54 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:29:04 -0000

I am interested in an invite also.
Thank you,
Nicole

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Terry Karney — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:38:15 -0000

I'm interesed in trying it. I've applied for an invite, but if you have one going spare, I'd be more than willing to try it out and let you know what I think.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

S M — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:53:05 -0000

Great post. I wonder if a new google search tool would possibly be more effective due to increased scope/cache? Would love to try TinEye if invites are still available.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Petra — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:12:14 -0000

Hi, This sounds like a great tool! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I'd love to try it out if you still have invites.
Thanks!
Petra

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

NaveenKumar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:26:20 -0000

Hi,

I would like to try TinyEye.

Would be glad to receive an invitation from you(if you are still left with invitations :D)

Thanks,
NaveenKumar.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

jon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:52:52 -0000

This sounds really good. Would love to try it if you could possibly send an invite. Thanks

jon

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Charlene — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:10:51 -0000

It sounds like magic! The internet is great but has so many negative aspects.
I've started to upload smaller sizes and including a copyright on images with the hope that it is too much trouble to get it off.

I'd love an invitation to try it

Charlene

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Adam Nollmeyer - AcmePhoto — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:24:46 -0000

Who would want to steal images, you know with the lowering cost of digital cameras.. ;-)

TinEye looks pretty great, I can't wait to try it. Now they should just partner with somone to email / invoice people who "borrow" work without asking.

Adam in Phoenix.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

DRoOpY — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:25:45 -0000

Wow, this is very ineteresting... hook me up if you can!

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Sarah — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:57:20 -0000

If you still have any invites left, I'd be very grateful for one. I'm nowhere near professional photography standard, but I have two flickr images that seem to have massive hits, and although I google them, I fear they are being used but not coming up in google searches. Especially when my stats reveal search terms like "free wizard image" and "free mountain image" have come up!

Thanks a lot for your help, and the article was a really insightful read.

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Jorge — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:41:53 -0000

This is by far the most interesting thing I've read so far this year. Very promising! Send me an invite if you have any left. Thx

Re: Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online?

Charmaine — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:32:32 -0000

I sent u an email about the invite before, and you told me to drop a line here =] I'd love to try TinEye, so it would be great if you could send me an invite. Thanks again, Jim! =D

- Charmaine