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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And who would run the validation site and populate it with the data required to do the validation?
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Yeah, that's the sticky part.
I happened to stumble across a nice alternative to TurnItIn today, though:
http://www.copyscape.com. You can try the site for free. An especially nice feature is that you can pay for a service called "Copysentry" that will continually scan the web and tell you when copies of your stuff show up elsewhere. Also, you don't have to post your content to the web with the "premium" account -- you can paste it into their input window. So an author wouldn't have to post their content to a public location.
And of course, someone like Cory Doctorow could use this in an inverse way, to see how far his CC books have spread.
I don't know if it can check for zipped attachments, though. It wouldn't be that hard to develop something that would do this, however. Seems like a market opportunity for someone.