Interesting site for spotting rips

[Stratification]

Found this over on Spectacle (http://www.returnofdesign.com/spectacle/show.php?page=66), looks like a possible resource for spotting rips/copies of your work. I don't exactly have extensive content so I couldn't check it out for myself. Anyhow, here's a direct link to the page:

Copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com/)

[Leet]

I bet that's probably just based on coding and such. So people with similar CMS or such would report as rips prolly.

[intrudah]

nice site found 3

[GW02]

It's not even based on coding, it's simply based on words.

[Abelius]

Hmmm... I checked out this CopySentry thingy and here is my comment: Not so sure that thing actually works.

Has anybody here actually come up with a results different from "No copies found"...?

Another doubt I have is that while this might check sites that look similar (not sure how they do it, but doesn't matter at this point), I am afraid this simply CAN NOT check for copies of rip offs made in Flash. How do you do that? Not even a google search engine is going to go through zillions of swf files that are being called in HTML, PHP or ASP pages. Let alone if the swf file has been renamed for that purpose...

I think this is a blatant way to get people to pay some 19-something bucks per month (and that's for up to 10 pages...), and THEN maybe they do make a check in earnest, but I am still not sure if those results would be the real thing...

I even think that maybe somebody could place a copy of his/her own site on purpose, somewhere on the net, with a different domain name, of course. Then have the CopySentry run the search. Not Flash, plain HTML thing, and identical to the original...!
I'm pretty sure the result would be "No copies found"... LOL :)