Well, the debate I've seen elsewhere turns on GOOG indexing the entire site
.. so it all turns up in a google search.
If the judge wasn't careful at (say) setting robots.txt, or at least a
password ..
The analogy would still be looking into a house through a window, instead of
breaking in through a window. If I was passing by your house and
accidentally saw you in an embarrassing position (say naked coming out of
the shower), I've hardly broken into your house, eh?
srs
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Perry E. Metzger
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: [silk] This is getting silly.
>
>
> "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Analogies suck - and Lessig equating looking at that's on public
> display on
> > a website to "hacking" is plain silly.
>
> I think the point was that it wasn't intended for public display -- it
> was merely possible if you fished around enough to figure out the URLs
> for some of the material. I have a private web site I use to host
> files I want to give to my friends -- the URLs are private but if you
> guessed them you could see the contents. I don't think that counts as
> "public display".
>
> Perry
