hutcheson - 6:35 pm on Mar 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

No, the Google cache is of no importance at all, either to webmasters or to copyright law. That was settled in the LAST case, settled by the simple fact that notice could be given by anyone who cared: there was no need to invoke the authority of the law when a simple file tweak or server tweak could make any conceivable Google "copyright violation" good.

This is another issue. Plaintiff was whining about Google caching material that it had explicit permission to cache -- after all, a cache is the essence of a newsgroup, and you can't post to a newsgroup without intending for it to be cached! And in newsgroups, Google is not acting as a cache (however intrinsically good or evil that may be) but as an ISP, automatically accepting content generated by others for redistribution, and redistributing it. That was a no-brainer, no matter how much you hate and despise Google. And nobody, not the Godfather, not Bill Gates, not a petty mullethead third-world dictator, NOBODY can be ALWAYS evil.