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This is a very dangerous law.

One will believe that now with digital cameras, everybody will took their own photos before taking someone's else. But not.

This is very serious, Big companies will use the web services in other countries like China or Russia to automatically remove copyright info from pictures or text and post them. Then you can just take those documents legally "as there is no copyright metadata" in the picture.

New legislation is making Big companies benefit and small ones to be crushed by them.

If you are from UK, it is time to do something.

Tineye is a simple prevention. If the photo is indexed online, the owner is findable.

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