How To Overcome The Menace Of Content And Photo Sharing
Everybody loves sharing and almost everyone is curious to know about new details on any topic. This is why social media are very successful. However if social media share everything then what is the use of other sites which provide the same content for a fee?
This makes them profitless. None of the professional bloggers support free sharing like this.
Free Sharing with Proper Acknowledgement
Free sharing is good; it is advantageous in any given situation but certain social media like Pinterest and Tumblr overdo it. If you are providing certain content for free and then requesting user to go to the owner site for the rest of the content then it is useful to improve traffic, back links, profit for both the sites.
However the social media like Tumblr and Pinterest share the whole content on the net to their users and at times doesn’t even quote from where the content are shared from.
Certain photo sharing might be of less or no offense this is because the images will have watermarks on it and also at times has its link therefore user will know where the image was shared from. However this is not the case with all the content and images.
Content Sharing without Citation Amounts to Stealing
In most of the cases the content shared will be displayed on user page as the content from Pinterest or Tumblr and not as a shared one.
In these cases the information can be shared and used by all users. This is a serious drawback on the side of the owners of the content. Although users find it easy the real fact is that it is almost similar to stealing the content.
At the same time, using photo sharing websites like Mixbook or Snapfish is perfectly safe because you have total control of your images.
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Next time if you download any photo from net (Google) or from any of these social media websites then be sure that this is an act of stealing. You must have got prior permission from the owner and then only you can repost it on the web.
Similarly if you are owner of a business then you must follow the following steps in order to prevent the theft and stealing of your content.
Watermark
If you are posting and images are photos that you own; then don’t forget to watermark it. Let it be any type of picture; just watermark it with your websites’ link. This allows users to know from where the picture originated. Similarly they won’t repost it in their website since it contains the watermark with link to your site.
Don’t Post
Never post any sensitive, controversial or any personal information which you don’t want to be shared. Especially don’t post these in high traffic areas like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr etc. This is because all these websites use the information to share among its users thereby your data will become visible to all.
Amend the websites’ htaccess files
Therefore the hot linking will not be even possible. However this does not stop screen capture / screen shot capability. Whatever you post on the web might be captured, be it content or image or videos.
Disable Right click
By disabling this you can protect your content from those who are not that tech savvy enough to stature out how to perform the screenshot stuff. This is deployed in various government websites, and other major bank gateways.
Licenses
Austerely note just about your substance with utter and transparent terms concerning on how you wish to permit your substance to be utilized and/or circulated, whenever necessary. There are few licenses which proffer the mainly unanimously accepted guidelines for the concept of proper sharing.
All these discussions don’t mean that “Pinterest is bad” or “Tumblr is bad”. This just means that we must be careful about sharing since there is a lot of chance for our data being re-shared. If you aren’t interested in sharing then you must abstain yourself from posting it in the first place.
Moreover these social media doesn’t share your data for commercial gain. These guys do it just for fun and to improve knowledge but someone from these social media might copy and repost your data for his commercial success.
We can’t go behind and sue these users. The best way to refrain them from accessing our data is to make it invisible for them (which are not possible) or to deploy the above steps and reduce the rate of sharing of our data.
