I don’t know why, but apparently some people feel Pod and Video casting are the only ways to avoid copyright infringement and content theft. I hope I am not the only person saying this - uhhh no it is not.
While it is harder to steal a video/audio clip, it is still very possible. I don’t even know a lot about that stuff but even I know how to do it. For videos, cut out sections where the original source is mentioned, and do the same for a podcast. Heck, you could do that in Quicktime Pro. Or just leave it alone and steal it as-is, or worse - they could deep link to it and cost you bandwidth.
If everyone started creating pod and video casts do you know what would happen? Sploggers would start stealing it. It’s that simple.
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August 4th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
I think the reason that a/v content has not been stolen as much as text has less to do with the difficulty in doing it and more with the benefit of any such ripping.
The problem isn’t that such content is hard to plagiarize, the tools for doing it are now as brain-dead easy as possible, but that search engines do not easily parse this contnet and there is little benefit for doing it.
Once search engines are better able to index and present this content, there will be a spike in the amount of a/v content ripped off.
It is only a matter of time.
August 4th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Well, there is a lot of technology out there to read in text from images, so like you said, it is only a matter of time until it gets stolen more.