2000-05-19 18:39:44+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
2000-05-19 18:39:44+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:29:59+00 by: hilarion
Seems to be more a problem of vested interests than copyrights. For instance, proxying-away or levying substitute adverts would send you to the Big Chair today, no questions asked. But unless a harm can be proven in court, it would be hard to garner the subjective benefit of the user's experience against the litigator's. (I'd call that weighing the measure of frivolousness of the lawsuit.)
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:29:59+00 by: Redbird
How about from the other angle? If someone looks at my Web pages while using a pay-to-surf bar, is my copyright being infringed because my material is being used in ways I didn't intend, and furthermore, being used specifically for commercial purposes in ways I didn't intend and am not being notified of? What this comes down to is that, like hilarion, I don't think this is really a matter of copyright: it's powerful corporate interests unhappy that people aren't paying them for stuff, even though they don't have any particular interest in paying the rest of us for stuff. How far do you think I'd get if I found a way to track whether people were using pay-to-surf bars, and ad-supported free Web access, to look at my pages, and sent out bills to the advertisers in question?