Hi, Is anybody familar with dizzler.com? I've noticed it mentioned in my website's logs several times and thought I'd find out what it's about.
Firstly a google search 'site:http://dizzler.com jwm' returns nothing, but on visiting the site, dizzler's inbuilt search returns six of my audio tracks. Naturally I wonder how these got there. It turns out dizzler.com is, more or less, a search engine. It's position is interesting, on the one hand it mentions (briefly) it's software is copyright and patent protected, but on the other (their philosophy): * We believe that Intellectual property law should not serve as a brake on technological innovation. * We believe that no one should arbitrarily limit or restrict the access to content in the public domain. * We believe that Dizzler is expanding the way people use the information on the public Internet. * We believe copyright holders must face the new realities of the digital age by adopting a looser interpretation of how their content is used, "sampled” or licensed. Dizzler is ready to work with them in negotiating this new world. Also interesting is the fact 'dizzler' cannot tell if material it finds is copyrighted or not, and they can present it until given a takedown notice, plus there is the 'framing' clause which allows them to present something provided it's not 'copied' to their server. http://www.dizzler.com/public/about I'm not sure how grateful I am that my material appears there. I've not had time to wait for the flash widgets to download (via dialup) and to see what happens, but: "This encryption prevents Dizzler users from accessing the actual paths to content in order to thwart inappropriate downloading, copying or sharing of files." or in reality prevent users from actually visiting the real website providing the content. Just wondered what other's might think to this? Kind of exploitative I think... ? James. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
