Discoveries of Flickr Photo Reuse Under the Spell of Magic Pixsy Dust

The semi-regular email notices from Pixsy made it a good day to peer into the flickr photo reuse mirror and add to my album of 379 photos reused elsewhere on the intertubes. Sure it’s my own navel gazing vanity, but mostly its wild curiosity not only to see who is reusing my photos but in some curious ways. I’ve done this periodically as the blog tags will tell but the notable thing is my use of a service that is not really the way most others do. Pixsy’s own headline declares “Find and fight image theft. Take back control of your images. See where & how your images are being used online! Get paid when your images are used without a license or permission.” Only the 3rd sentence I care about, and heck why say it when I have already said it: Reversing a Reverse Image Search I only use Pixsy as its reverse image search from my flickr pile quite readily finds my photos all over the place… like ~17,000 cases! I’ve been using Pixsy for quite some time as an account came with my FlickrPro…

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