Morgan - 7:09 am on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Like I said, I don't know the legalities of it. And ISP caches are the same in my opinion, there are plenty that change the original content before you see it (adult filtered ISPs, ISP ad blocking, etc.). Unimportantly, I've seen a ton of pages launch popups from within the Google cache, so some JavaScript must work.

In any case, my personal hope is that the eventual end of this is maybe the idea that content posted on a public space like an unrestricted website is a lot like making a speech on a street corner and is public domain. I don't think it's particularly dangerous to other copyright issues either.

Isn't there a site republishing a lot of GoogleGuy's comments from this forum? Maybe we'll get to see if these copyright concerns hold water at all. I don't think they do, but it'd be interesting to see who owns GoogleGuy's public comments-- the forum operator or Google? Maybe I can put a chalkboard by the sidewalk for people to write poetry on and then defend my copyright on it.