Plagiarism has become a worldwide concern and organizations and watchdogs are finding it difficult to contain the culture of rampant plagiarism. Everyone requires quality content and that has further led to unbridled copy and paste stuff. This phenomenon is not just restricted to one single area. Whether it is software, music, movies or literature, nothing is considered safe. We keep hearing about heavy losses suffered by film and music industry because of plagiarism. No one cares whether you paid good money to get the content or have worked hard to create the stuff; plagiarism is becoming hard to stop. Technological advancement is not helping the cause either.
However, as world is becoming aware of this malice, authorities are putting into place some tough norms to contain the problem. Some wonderful tools have been invented to identify, track, and stop this trend. ‘Bad behaviour’ is one of the leading tools that helps in stopping spam apart from preventing programmed plagiarism by capturing unlawful bots that are found visiting your web pages.
‘Watermark.ws’ is a useful tool for overlaying your copyrighted pictures with fully customised logos or texts. That way, thieves will be reluctant to steal these images. Similarly, ‘PictureShark’ can easily stamp text or watermark images on your picture files. It is not easy to remove watermark created by the program.
Almost all of us have heard of ‘Copyscape’ which is perhaps one of the best tools to prevent plagiarism. This is basically duplicate content detection software which quickly searches the web for plagiarized portions. Many webmasters and writing services prefer to use this dependable tool. Google also provides you with programs like ‘Alerts’ and ‘Image Search’ which are useful in stopping stealing of pictures. Some other popular plagiarism detecting tools are ‘Maxpower Digital Fingerprint Plug-In’, ‘Copyfeed’, and domain tools.
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