RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's.

From: Post, Ethan <epost_at_kcc.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:26:40 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00321658.20010607151857@fatcity.com>

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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