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Wow, I had no idea it was so easy. Could this in fact be used to combat copyright infringement for the likes of The Oatmeal on large scale, given someone (Google) with the requisite computing power?


From the looks of it this is actually TinEye's main commercial activity, they merely expose the search interface to demonstrate their technology.


For that specific situation, this wouldn't help too much, seeing as the up-loaders are already removing source info, so it's reasonable to assume they will fudge the image somehow to change the hash value.




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