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Originally Posted by rryles
The original RFC spec only does disallow. However the benchmark they have set is Google and Google's bots support an allow extension. Google's bots also check for meta tags in the documents. Checking those would require interception first though.  |
The problem is Phorm aren't a search engine. They need explicit consent for communication interception and/or use of copyright materials.
Lack of robots.txt does not indicate consent for Phorm (or Google for that matter, though Google is generally considered beneficial to publishers). Phorm definitely isn't beneficial to publishers, unless they participate as OIX members (and most ecommerce sites, and non profit sites won't be doing that).
So assumed consent isn't reasonable.
I like the obs that they would have to intercept first
. Ooops. That's a bummer for Phorm. I wonder how they work around that then?
Pete.