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swa66 - 5:18 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)
Google will argue it's a cache and not a copy, I'm not 100% for it but there are ways to prevent it. I don't currently feel the need to do that (yet). In general: against it. In specific cases where the evil is truly of general interest and bad enough the evil of publishing might be less than the evil being reported on. Up to the publisher to make the decision, and for him/her to live with the consequences ... Copyright is simple IMHO: international law, widely accepted except for some rogue countries. I'm neither a google lover nor hater. They provide me with good stuff for now both as a surfer and as a publisher. The copyright issue is what makes it stand out as being unprofessional from the reporter (copyright being simple to circumvent as you pointed out). Revealing secrets is probably the thing that hurt Google (or any other company) most. If there only were world shocking facts, fine. But they aren't there: Google is just doing what is expected of anybody doing what they do. Secret from us, perhaps: I would hate it that scrapers, spammers and other scum knew exactly how the Google Algo works. Let's keep them guessing. Secret from their competitors: Sure, they want to be the best search engine. Don't we all want to be the best?
Google takes a copy of every site without permission. Are you for or against that copyright infringement?
I was actually much less impressed by the archive.org copies, so I asked them to delete it. Whistle blower in evil company reveals secret evil plans that are copyrighted. For or against?
Since bloggers are their own publishers ... The copyright question is more complicated than your response makes out. Copyright was also a side issue here, if the reporter rewrote it so that the meaning was the same but the words different it would not be a copyright infringement because it would not be a copy. But Google guy would still be unhappy.
Their happiness leaves me largely unaffected.
There is far worse evil in the world than Google. But it seems popular to do some Google bashing nowadays.
If you don't like google, feel free to tell us why. Make sure it doesn't become too insulting (slander), fine by me. But almost in a panic trying to grasp everything and doing more evil than the original is doing is pointless to start with. Moreover it is damaging to the community.