How To Tell If Your Photos Have Been Stolen

INTRODUCTION

In this article I will show you how to tell within seconds if some one online has stolen your photos.  Photo thief is a growing problem online, and more and more people are simply copying other people's photos and claiming them as their own.  The main reason behind this rapidly growing trend is money, by using tools like copy and paste or snip anyone can steal dozens of your photos and reuse them as their own, and often times the people they have stolen the content from never even know it has happened.

Thankfully their is free online programs that use reverse tracking, that let's you know within seconds if one of your photos has been stolen or not.  The reverse tracking not only let's you know if one or more of your photos have been stolen, it even gives you links to the websites the photos show up on.

Reverse tracking of photos also has other uses as well, for instance, it will let you know within seconds if some one else's photos are really their own, or if they "borrowed them" from another website.  If you have photos anywhere online, or are into photography, this reverse tracking software may very well be for you.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

access to a computer

free reverse tracking software

STEP 1

Click onto the link to the right, TINEYE REVERSE PHOTO SEARCH, it's  a free site.

STEP 2

Once at the Tineye site, I highly recommend you take advantage of the firefox browser plugin on the main page - it is free and very easy to install.  Once installed, all you have to than do is hover your mouse pointer over an image and do a left click, a box will open with several options, including "search image on tineye."

STEP 3

If your using the firefox plugin, left click, select search image with tineye, and within seconds tineye will open a new tab showing the results of it's search.  If nothing is found, it will tell you there are 0 results.  If a photo has in fact been stolen, it will show dozens, sometimes hundreds of websites the photo can be found on, along with links to each site.

STEP 4

Use great care when comparing the tineye results.  Remember, all tineye does is pull together all photos that look simular to one another.  By comparing your photo to the one tineye has matched to it, you should be able to easily tell if in fact it is an exact match, or not.

STEP 5

If you find any of your photos have been stolen, report this to each website the photos appear on.

STEP 6

If your using tineye reverse image search to track stolen photos on a website you are a member of, report any findings to the moderators of that site.

STEP 7

Use tineye reverse image search often, short of an actual weater mark on your photos, it is your best protection against those people who are out there stealing photos.

Comments (1)

bernijean said:

	... Thanks for this information. I had never heard of the tineye reverse image program. Very interesting article!
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