Googling May Break Copyright in Canada

twray writes "From The Globe&Mail: Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal? Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through "information-location tools," which includes search engines."

Comments

Where's our share?

[jfonseca]

Google feeds off everybody's work to make billions of dollars.

The Google mail system combined with Google Earth(or the simpler Maps), Orkut and Blogs is the end of privacy.

Not only is Google a major threat to our constitutional right to privacy but it is also a major leech of other people's copyrighted material.

Google does not produce one line of content, their news service leeches other agencies' work, their search engine leeches everybody's web sites...

Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself how something as absurd as google goes by loved by everyone and adored as if it were anything more than a huge copyright infringement case.

They provide a nice service, granted. But this service is based on our content, shouldn't we get a share of the revenue? No! Instead we PAY to have ads on their results which in turn are 100% our content. I'd like to meet the marketing genius that convinced everyone to produce content so Google could feed off of it.

If you go read some SEO forums you'll see that the google representatives tell you to produce tons of clean content and you'll rank higher. AH GENIUS! Give them MORE free content so their engine offers more of YOUR work to others, make THEM more money against your work.

AH! As if it weren't enough, Google runs on open-source software because they HAD to leech other people's programming too. They developed proprietary tools, a proprietary, secretly held algorithm WITH open source tools!!!! Google developed a fascinating distributed filesystem and guess what WE THE DEVELOPERS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WHICH GOOGLE LEECHED DO NOT GET TO SEE IT!!!!

In short : Google produces nothing, they organize your stuff for you without you asking for it, and they get really well paid for that. They use open source tools but give nothing back to open source, they use your website and they give you some traffic in return, traffic which your content earned anyway.

Don't want to make any friends by this, I'm being honestly open about what I think of Google and I'd like other opinions on this and why I may be wrong.