Re: Neat summary of Google strategy

From: "Chris"
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, joseph harris wrote:
>
>> There is no right to print or to pass on to others, 
>> unless
>> the terms allow; copies for different machines or folders
>> remains a grey area.
>
> The question of an ISP's proxy server has come up before 
> in case
> law. It mattered because the proxy *explicitly* gathers 
> one copy
> and distributes it to multiple destinations.
>
> But - it's just how the Internet works.
>
> It would be akin to taking one free newspaper from the 
> stack, and
> then photocopying it to deliver it to multiple requestors. 
> Nobody
> is getting paid less at the outset, but the newspaper does 
> get
> less information about who and where its paper is read.
>
>
>
> : chris smith 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> : nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - 
> cicero :
>

Oops! I was thinking the answer to your analogy while 
answering dej, and inadvertently put it to here post where 
it makes no sense! Here it is in the right place - me culpa 
maxima ;-).

By the way I don't accept the analogy either. The Google
exposure is more a matter of of the changing poster for the
paper or simply the ability to pick it up and check the
content before the purchase decision [doesn't apply to he
coin slot containers of course, but we don't have these in
the UK]. On the whole, let me add, newspapers have no idea
who they sell to, except for the few direct subscriptions.

But you also suggest there is no financial loss from such 
photocopying; I think that would not be a sustainable 
argument. This seems to be a repeated mantra of the 'free' 
advocates and my challenge to show how this is so has never 
been answered.

Also I must point out the actual cost of photocpying would 
actually be more expensive that buying a copy of the paper. 
Only with a digital file is the cost of copying generally 
less than the cost of buying. And there is no moral argument 
for doing that without payment.

Joseph Harris 



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