Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook Talking technology, computers, and the Internet… for the average computer user

There are some good thoughts and a bad testimony over at The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far. A friend of hers has had blog content stolen and plagiarized.

So where the recording industry and big government now, for us, the little guy?

Rrrrright.

A few weeks ago, I’d found that someone had plagiarized my travel blog’s account of our trip to Cooperstown. The creeps. What concerns me(not to downplay anything else, however) is the theft of photographs and such. I’d read that if you upload your photos to Google, then Google has permission to do with them as they please, forever. Surprise, surprise. Flickr has authority for as long as you leave your photos on their service. It’s a very touchy issue. It is also skewed (still no surprises) to protect the greedy corporation and punish the little guy. How can the recording industry slam consumers like they do and yet plagiarism and theft goes unnoticed as long as we are victims?

I am looking for a photo watermarking program. I have been for about six months now. Haven’t found too much (I prefer free!). If you come across a good one, please let me know.