Just so all are clear...I was just mentioning that all this stuff is cached
on google, I did not mean to imply that it somehow makes it alright. In
fact I'm glad to see so many other moral absolutists on the list :)
- Ethan
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:41 PM
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Hi Ethan,
To me, the difference is that Google always points you to the site where the
"original" document is to be found, and if an author updates or withdraws a
paper from their web site, Google will revisit the site within a few weeks
and
either update their cached copy or drop the item from their index as
appropriate. Also, authors can ask the search engines not to spider stuff
using
a robots.txt file.
People who put illegal copies on their own web sites probably don't check
for a
robots.txt file or equivalent meta tags, generally don't have links to the
original content, and are most unlikely to have spiders continually checking
the
validity of their copies.
I think that the search engines are mostly OK on both ethics and copyright
law.
However, I would not be surprised if Google's serving of cached copies were
to
be regarded as technically illegal by the courts.
@ Regards,
@ Steve Adams
@ http://www.ixora.com.au/
@ http://www.christianity.net.au/
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