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Originally Posted by oblonsky
So it seems the only way content owners can fight against intra-ISP spyware/profiling is under copyright legislation and that is doomed to certain failure because Phorm insist that they will respect robots.txt, an established mechanism granting a machine the rights to scan and classify the content.
IANAL (but I know a few very good ones).
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Robots.txt doesn't allow (check the spec), it disallows.
Its a denial mechanism.
What's required is a mechanism of consent, where no consent (ie, explicit consent is not present) means no consent.
Pete.