I've seen it happen all over the internet. Sometimes people go as far as stealing a person's picture (or an owner posing with a pet) and playing it off as themselves with their puppy.
I think, like someone mentioned, to watermark a picture. If you have an editing program such as Photoshop, you could write your name across the picture and play with the transparency so you don't distort your picture and people can see yet, yet it protects it because if it's in the middle of the picture.. there is no way to cut it out so the theft cannot use the picture.
I think it's a common practice and a lot of people think they can get away with doing it since it's through the internet and most of the people never meet them or see them. |