Re: need some advices

From: Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 19:50:06 -0500
Message-ID: <20111203195006.4c1c1b75@rainbird>
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:21:01 +0100
Ruud@Baltissen.org wrote:

> Hallo Vanessa,
> 
> 
> > It defeats the purpose of a free and open Internet.
> 
> Which also means that one is free to put text on his image :)
> 
> > Instead, add a hidden watermark
> 
> What does diminishing or enlarging do with this hidden watermark? 

Depends on how it is implemented.  Last such example I saw could survive resizing and minor modifications to the image, though I don't remember what the limits were.  I believe it simply reduced the watermark image to only 3 or 4 bits per pixel and use the result to replace the lowest-order bits of the original image.  Crude, but effective.

> And what if people use this picture anyway, are you going to sue 
> (??? accuse, summon) them? 

If it were me, no.  Not worth the time and effort unless the offender is using my images to make a ton of money or something.  In the case of the original poster, it's up to him. :-)

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Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@gmail.com>

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