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Online Content Cannot Remain Free
gamer4Life writes "Publishers from Europe are complaining that Internet search engines are making money off their copyright-protected material. 'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council. These comments are despite the fact that Google does not place ads on their news service. 'Search engines do not reproduce content. They help users find content by pointing to where it exists on the Web.', says Google spokesman, Steve Langdon. This comes after a French news service sued Google for at least $17.5 million."
I just made a list of things, and Slashdot will be making ad money from the list of other people's software being here:
http://sf.net/
http://digg.com/
http://grisoft.com/
Someone sue Slashdot! Quickly now!
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Google to European publishers: "OK, if you guys don't want your content indexed, we won't index it. And we'll remove it from our database while we're at it."
European publishers, a month later: "Why have visits to our sites dropped by 80% since Google stopped stealing uor content?!"
Step 1: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to stop them from "stealing" their content.
Step 2: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to force them to reindex their servers after their customers can no longer find them and their competitors, who were happy to be indexed, get all the traffic.
Step 3: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to recover for "damages" since the engines are using their intellectual property - despite the fact that the search engines are now forced to use that property by court order.
Step 4: Web publishers in Europe are lined up against the wall and shot as the internet collapses from an excess of stupidity.
Balsemao said consumers were drawn online by free content but this needed to change, he said.
"The value of content must be understood by consumers so that new business models can evolve.
Yeah. Not only must those who provide free content realize that those who provide equal or worse content must get to charge for their equal or inferior product; those who read free content must understand that it's better for everyone if they choose to pay for an alternative, without getting any more than they would get for free.
Balsemao, if you're reading this, pay me or my new business model will never evolve!
"Fark cliche. He means 'moran'."
That may well be, but Irishmen around the world are still itching to kick the sh*t out of him.
8^)
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Step 5: ???
Step 6: PROFIT!
note: self-modded down with no karma bonus
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
To: M. Amoron, owner, Jackass Publishing.
From: I. Cheatem, attorney-at-law.
Dear Sir,
Attached to my email, you will find a two-line file entitled "robots.txt". The 4-year-old who designed your website should copy it into your top-level web directory. This file is essentially an instruction to Google's web spider to direct people to your competitors rather then you.
My client Google believes in respecting these wishes. We have happily de-listed your site.
On a related note, I know some excellent bankruptcy attorneys in your country. In a couple months' time when you come to need one, I will be happy to make a recommendation.
(Up) Yours,
I. Cheatem, attorney-at-law.
To fight the war on terror, stop being afraid.
Why spend 30 seconds writing a robots.txt when you can simply sue?
There are 110 types of people in the world - those who grok negabin and those who don't
On the contrary, like Langdon alludes, I hear or see something, pop a few words into Google to do a search, next thing you know my bookshelf, real oak(!), is jamb packed with books.
Wow. I'd like to have that printer. Where'd you get it?
About this ring of yours... anything, um, special about it? Was it part of a collection, one of a set of nine perhaps, or is it one ring. It's my birthday, and I wants something... precious.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Well if you don't believe in your $, can I have it?