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“A suggestion - make sharing require a positive action to enable. The no-pin option just doesn't cut it. As more sites like Pinterest and Tumblr go on encouraging content sharing, we cannot expect website owners to keep adding proprietary tags every time a new site needs to be blocked. After all, having an unlocked door does not give you permission to come into my house and take my pizza or borrow my books.

Rather, Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr et al should designate some simple tagging structure similar to robots meta and robots.txt - for example, calling it "do-share." If I love the publicity, I can add a "do-share /" to my robots.txt file and be done. Or "do-share /public/iimages" would allow just the images in that directory to be pinned or tumbled. In addition, add a meta tag to the robots meta - "do-share." And finally, add to the x-robots header standard to recognize "do-share" response headers.

So don't take my stuff unless I tell you its okay.”

pbarnhartgfc1, on 26 March 2012 - 12:22 PM, said:

You know, there's something wrong with that way of thinking. There are NO people taking your stuff. Your stuffs are still there, sitting nicely on your website. They're not gone. What people do is taking snapshots of that. It's like somebody walk in front of your house and see a pizza you put on your doorstep, take photo of it, and upload it on the internet. Do I need your permission to call my friends and say, "hey pals, look, I see a weird pizza today!" ? I think, that matter can be seen in a search engine way of point. So, if someone google-image something, and your pizza shown up in the result, would that makes google "breach" your home and taking up your pizza? C'mon man, if you put your pizza on your doorstep, then don't blame other peoples if they can LOOK at it. If you don't want people to LOOK at it, then give passwords. don't put it on your doorstep, or, even put it on your safe-box -- don't upload it at all. This is internet, man. You only complaint to social engines, but how do you complaint to the peoples who actually "taking" your stuffs -- save it on their computers and use it for their own purpose, or maybe even use it on their websites, or their posters, brochures, designs, and claimed it as their own work? I think that is the real "thieves", if you prefer to say that way. But here in pinterest, they only take snapshots, and they even link back to the original post. I think there are no stuff taking going on here. But of course, haters will be haters.