Art thieves are leeches that are reducing the quality of Steemit as a LEGITIMATE blogging platform. If you're supporting art thieves, you're hurting Steemit. If you're hurting Steemit, you are hurting yourselves.
Thank you for bringing this important topic to talk about, @art-mess !! We all can be more vigilant and do more to make sure Steemit does not flounder.
Much love,
a spider
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we need to be more vigilant and MERCILESSLY FLAG those violators! Of course one has to make sure about it because it could be that for example someone rips off your art from elsewhere on the net and posts on Steemit, and some time later, you post it yourself (and then you might get flagged by an over-eager user) - so doing an image search and checking who the artist really is must be done.
A few times I had posted my essays that I had published previously (with links and all) and @cheetah caught it. Just wondering if that kitty can detect images as well?
I recommend https://tineye.com/ - I used them before and found some of my art being ripped off and used commercially!
Thanks @thermoplastic. I feel that we can all put our heads together and come up with a reasonable solution and a system that doesn't end up flagging legitimate content creators. I'm going to look into tineye. That is a pro tip brother.
Yes I'm brainstorming on multiple ways to approach this problem @veryspider. Some great ideas have been brought up here. I'm glad so many people have joined the conversation. Thanks for bringing my post up in steemartists. We are going to clean this place up. :)