Plagiarism and content theft have really intrigued me of late. I got to thinking and came up with an idea for a very simple digital fingerprint for online content. Since content scrapers simply scrape, paste, and profit, they (ideally) wouldn’t notice a small ‘fingerprint’ (a keyword / phrase or personal googlewhack) sandwiched in with the regular text of your content. It follows that your fingerprint is uniquely yours, only those pages and posts where you placed your fingerprint should actually contain your fingerprint. A simple search via google or other search engines could confirm this on a regular basis. If your fingerprint exists on the web it is either coincidence or plagiarism. » Read the rest of the entry..