I just woke up to my girlfriends entire steemit post showing up on an external site, including all her personal photos. @jamtaylor commented with a link to the website. I ASSUME THIS IS A BOT AS WELL? It would seem plagiarism is going both ways, and steemit may not be a safe Haven for original material. Are there any plans for a bot that goes through older Post to cross reference with the web and relay back to the author that their forgotten posts are now pulling in traffic for someone elses site?
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I'm not a bot, but I did manually double check @rhi-marie's post just to see if it was to be found anywhere else and I saw that it was.
I suggest that @rhi-marie contact the website about it if this is your material that they have lifted.
These are the posts in question if anybody else is reading.
https://steemit.com/travel/@rhi-marie/backpacks-snacks-and-fitness-hacks
and https://worldtravelpedia.blogspot.com/2016/07/backpacks-snacks-fitness-hacks.html
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This is quite interesting, and I assume a relevant issue if steemit is to succeed.
Something to consider would be Steganography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography). The following is not a solution to detect whether the author copied content from another source, but it would protect the original authors here on steemit from being accused of plagiarism, if content from here is copied to a different blog on the internet. Steemit could for instance automatically hide some unique id/message in images that are uploaded. If that image is then duplicated and used somewhere else, that hidden message would allow to identify from where the image originates - e.g. first been published here on steemit. Steganography is not an ugly watermark that distorts the image for the viewers, but instead is invisible to the eye and can only be identified if the applied method is known (by steemit itself). All this however, only works if there are images used within the post. It is not applicable to text-only posts.
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