James,
since the service is free for a while, I'm thinking I'll sign up and see how (if) it works. I've had my images stolen off of websites that were promoting the results of a particular show. The last time was in 2007 when the owner of the dog that went Best Of Winners, simply went to the website where the win photos were posted and right-clicked on it, saved it to his computer and put it up on his website. Then was arrogant enough to email me and say the image wasn't good enough for advertising so he wasn't going to order any prints. Yet he was using it on his website to promote his dog as a stud and sell stud services at $2,500 each because he had won a National.

In this particular case, I found out because the guy was so slimy I started looking and actually found the image on the website of someone who was breeding to that dog. When I asked the woman whose site it was how she got the picture, she said she'd gotten it off of the Stud Dog owner's website. My lawyer is still pursuing the guy but the image is at least off of his website now.

The dollar value of that "lost" sale is around $30 so you start to wonder if it's worth the time to go after these people but if there's a service that can find those types of violations, it makes it far more worthwhile to go after all of them and collect the copyright violation fees. So, from that perspective, it's a very interesting service. I'll probably sign up and as I find out more, I'll report it here.

Jim