Comments on: Threat to search engines

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:06:14 +0000

This law does come from Canada. Remember, the government is mostly run by idiots, money-launderers, and separatists. This is a government that “lost” a billion dollars, and nobody got fired. That got elected on a tax repeal platform, failed to repeal, and still got re-elected. Currently, the ruling party is under investigation for what is clearly racketeering crimes. (You read it here first: No government official will be jailed: Only the Advertising agencies that were the “mules” in this case).

Like they have a clue. They just want to hammer on little folks that put information that they “don’t want available” on the internet.

Of course, the simple definition of it encompasses search engines, so in the end it will help the little guys who just want to provide a link “for informational purposes only”, cuz at some point a major surf engine will have to defend itself in court.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:19:09 +0000

FreeWan cells are independent networks that are linked to other FreeWan cells via the Cartel Controlled Internet. With the exception of visiting this site and a few others, I hardly directly use the Internet any more. No thanks to the spammers, unresponsive infrastructure providers, the **AA’s and the likes, there is very little on the net that one can actually enjoy.

I am able to get my movies, news, music, and software at lightning speeds from my local FreeWan cell. If what I’m looking for is not on my FreeWan cell, then the gateway coordination program checks other cells. I there is no cell that has what I searched for, then the program coordinatition program may (if configured) search the regular Internet, or I can put up a request on the FreeWan Cell’s BBS.

The spammers, **AAS, governments, and the likes cannot harrass and monitor what they what they cannot see. When I do have to send email or communicate with someone outside of the FreeWan, I use my shitty dialup service (only type of connection in my area). Hopefully some day, FreeWan Cells will be able to be connected together over independent infrastructure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:12:57 +0000

How would Google be in trouble, isn’t Google a US company? It would follow US law, not Canadian. If I am wrong, please do tell me…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:35:38 +0000

This is one of the stupidest things ever! You cannot sue a search engine for finding info for you! If thats the case many search engines would fail in developing newer technoliges to find stuff better. Screw the dumb bill c-60.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:47:22 +0000

Perhaps you aren’t aware of the concept of caching? In essence, it is storing information so that it can be retreived faster. This is usually done temporarily with a specific expiration, because web content is not, as a rule, static. Google and other search engines do use caching to help speed up response time. Those descriptions you see under the web-page link were not obtained when you typed in your search keywords. So the question is: does caching copyrighted material amount to infringing?

Trust me, I’m on your side regarding copyright. I think that lawmakers need remember that they are supposed to be working for the public and not corporate interests.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:41:28 +0000

Unless they are complete morons… and dont know how the internet works… how can they possibly try to hold Google accountable????? Search engines just find data, and they find data based on user imput… you certainly can’t block/limit the search because people will then just use another search, and you can’t claim Google is infringing on copywrites, cause its not, its just giving you links based on what you typed in… THIS is another reason why the DMCA is soo poorly made, because it includes LINKS as a copywrite infringement… if the DMCA was made by ANYONE with a little brains and knolege about the internet, this would not have happend…. before long we wont have any internet at all, cause everything is linked in some way…. =P