Another related article;
Inside IT: A picture paints a thousand invoices | Technology | The Guardian
And they are hitting the magazines too;
PicScout Will Monitor Magazines . . .- Stock Photography - Stock Asylum, LLC
Some webmasters are now adding the following to their T&C;
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"With the exception of the main search engine bots such, the use of data-mining/extraction software or bots by any company that is not collecting data for a search engine is strictly forbidden. In particular the use of Picscout will be treated as 'hacking'."
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There is also a massive thread about it at;
FSB Discussion Forums: Image Copyright Infringement - Getty and Corbis