john_k - 12:36 pm on Aug 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

Interesting. His primary gripe about this is the same gripe I have had with adware apps, SmartTags, Google cache*, and scraper sites: They copy and then repackage copyrighted material for commercial gain without knowledge or authorization from the copyright holder; They provide no means for the copyright holder to block them* (apparently Smart Tags did), nor do they offer any compensation to the copyright holder.

* Yes, I know, you can opt out of the Google cache by blocking Google's spiders altogether. Not much of an option.