A good question. The answer probably lies in the legal interpretation of the site "terms of use". You could probably be sued under the DMCA.....
A more interesting question to me is whether Google is violating IBM's "terms of use" by "re-publishing" the documents in HTML: "This site and all content in this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed, or used for the creation of derivative works without IBM's prior written consent, except that IBM grants you non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access and display the Web pages within this site, solely on your computer and for your personal, non-commercial use of this Web site." ... "You may not mirror any of the content from this site on another Web site or in any other media." --- Apparently IBM wants Google to be able to read and index these PDFs and draw users of its search engine to its site (without paying Google), so that it can try to collect $995 / year for a subscription to the content. Quiz: what industry on the web charges users for access to its content but also allows GoogleBot to index the content? On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS <jan.moeyers...@adelior.be> wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:47:10 -0500, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > >>4) Using the User Agent switcher, pick the Googlebot user agent string. >> >>5) Now open the pdf link above..... enjoy. >> > > But... isn't that stealing? > > Jantje. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
