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jbigfoot

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A technical question
« on: July 11, 2013, 01:18:12 AM »
This program that Getty is using to scour the 'net to look for pictures, can it 'read' images that are part of a Flash display in an .swf file?
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Re: A technical question
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2013, 07:08:39 AM »
Quote from: jbigfoot on July 11, 2013, 01:18:12 AM
This program that Getty is using to scour the 'net to look for pictures, can it 'read' images that are part of a Flash display in an .swf file?

I have not seen this firsthand, but I believe there was a thread at some time involving Getty and  a flash driven site. As far as I know Picscout grabs jpg, gifs, png, and pdf files and then compares them to Getty's library..Picscout makes plenty of real dumb mistakes, but I also think someone may review any postive results, before sending it along to the college intern, so called "copyright specialists"
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Re: A technical question
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2013, 08:25:11 PM »
If it 'grabs' files, then it would be technically possible to read the source file from which the image on the .swf file is taken, since it's on the server. Thanks for the info.
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Re: A technical question
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2013, 08:47:13 PM »
Quote from: jbigfoot on July 12, 2013, 08:25:11 PM
If it 'grabs' files, then it would be technically possible to read the source file from which the image on the .swf file is taken, since it's on the server. Thanks for the info.

if you don't store the .fla file on the server, there should be no reference to the image file with the .swf file.. Or if you elect to store the .fla file on the server you can simply store it in a seperate directory, and password protect it, so no bots including picscout could access it..
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Re: A technical question
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2013, 08:49:03 PM »
Good idea!
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