Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
The image in question has no identifying markers on
it, or in it, that
indicate origin - EXIF and IPTC are empty. So, if the image lands in
somebody's browser cache on their own PC, then it will be brought up in
their (free) Picasa / Google drive self-search with nothing more
identifying it than this type of location:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5\RICPZFAU\Rock_paper_scissors[1].jpg
Wrong! Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
Settings\Temporary Internet Files
You'll get a nice two column system with the filenames and its URL.
(and not being smart enough to find out doesn't mean "use at will"!)
Also, it appears just doing a search on google images with the
filename... but not on commons!
I suspect they copied it from
http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/05/250px-Rock_paper_scissors.jpg
and saved it with a border at lower quality (note that metblogs file is
called 250px but is 185px, so it's a resizing of thumbnail at
en:Rock,_Paper,_Scissors of commons:Image:Rock_paper_scissors.jpg).
The process could have been:
Vix929 creates and uploads Image:Rock_paper_scissors.jpg from several
images, en:Rock,_Paper,_Scissors article includes it as 250px.
sf.metblogs resizes it even more and puts at
http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2006/05/rock_paper_scissors.phtml the
telegraph makes a border, lowers quality and publishes at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/19/sciscisso…