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Originally Posted by oblonsky
Preface: the following applies to copyright and not RIPA
Just look at how search engines operate. They breach website owner's copyright, but they offer an opt-out. robots.txt is an established mechanism for saying whether or not as a content owner you agree to have your pages read and classified by an automated process.
Parallels will be drawn by lawyers whether you like it or not, and worldwide courts have sided with the search engine's arguments.
Google make money. A lot of money. From your copyright. Yes, they give a lot back to both vistors and content owners, but at the end of the day they are making money off the back of content owners.
The ISPs will put every argument forward to show they too are part of the symbiosis and they should be allowed to make an honest buck too. I don't agree with this, but I firmly believe they will continue to stress this point.
When someone puts content online there are certain expectations as to how the content will be used and accessed. In my view you are wrong to make these black and white distinctions and parallels. My view, my opinion.
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sure, Ok .. so in effect your saying it's your view (and/or the view of these legal people you have talked with/about) that because it might seen as so called "
industry Practice" to ignore some/any of the laws and clauses as layed out by the UK and EU , then its also OK for a new player to do the same?.