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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
The problem with encrypting with a password, is that to do it right, you would have to have a separate password for each file, rather than a master password.
If a webmaster does get called upon and you release the password to them, then every file of yours is open for viewing.
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I am having a real hard time with the picture of an office full of FBI agents waiting while I contact someone for a password for every record they want to check: especially as this won't just involve you and Mr Score-Cash if your solution catches on. I could conceivably need to contact dozens of sponsors and content providers, all in different time zones and with very different ideas about how to man their contact numbers and process calls.
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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
The webmasters are the ones who would be paying for the 2257lookup service, and would be a reasonable fee (i am thinking $100/year per domain that includes scanning of new images each quarter and receiving a cross-index report that matches all found images with image set, model, and content producer).
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There is nothing reasonable about $100 per domain for someone who has several hundred domains...
I can see the problems content producers would like to solve, but I really believe you will have to find another way to do it.
If I buy content from someone and put it on the 'Net, my personal liberty may depend on me keeping the required, cross-referenced records in good order. With what is at stake and in this, possibly the least professional of all industries, there is no way I'm going to wait until the FBI are in my office to find out whether the records are any good.
And the practical aspect. Some producers will send me the full records. Others will do their own encryption. Still others will belong to this service or that service. Apart from already seeing the vultures circling with dollar signs in their eyes and making this hugely expensive, how exactly could I possibly reconcile all these different systems as the regulations require?
Many models don't work exclusively for one photographer. If I don't know that FTP269 is the same model as SC9976 (because I don't get to see her real name), how am I supposed to be able to cross-reference her records as required?