kaled - 3:08 pm on Aug 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

So you believe that Google should SELL (for a profit) their cached copy of the internet - surely no one out there is going say that is "fair use" with respect to copyright.

You could argue that, technical problems aside, all search engines should be under an obligation to sell their spidered data AT COST (ie no profit). After all, the data is not theirs, it belongs to the webmasters. That is not to say that indexing tables etc. should be included but raw cached copies of web pages should be available to purchase for the cost of the storage media plus an allowance for duplication.

Kaled.