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This is really an ingenious idea and I’ve already signed up for it.

Chris Brown over at ShowMeProofs.com has developed a bot that crawls the web looking for images that are not on websites that they belong to. According to Chris:

What it does is check the image’s EXIF data to see if there is a URL listed in the copyright field of the image and compares the domain name to the site the image appears on. If they don’t match, the image is flagged as a possible copyright violation and the image owner is notified (if the bot knows who that owner is).

Best of all, it’s a FREE service for photographer’s that want to tag their images before putting them online.

You can read more about the Egami Web Bot at it’s homepage here.