Re: Neat summary of Google strategy

From: "Mary E Tyler"

>> 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.
>
>
> Vis a bis proxy servers, there is not necessarily any loss 
> of
> information. A newspaper may only be able to track what it 
> sends out,
> analogous to using a web analytics program that works on 
> server logs.
> However, documents can track themselves when using 
> cookie-based web
> analytics programs like (the free) Google Analytics. Some 
> caveats
> apply. strangely enough, I am writing that chapter now.
>
> dej

Your confidence in these abilities is not one I share. Nor 
do I understand the point about loss of information. It is 
payment for use of another's information that exercises 
those of us who look at the multitude of business models and 
licences in the industry.

I am not clear of the value of some documents, with 
technical involvement, tracking themselves  as a factor in 
the main argument; this is not a clincher for any system. 
Indeed all these things may be removed anyway, by the 
technically competent, or countered. No technology or 
contract replaces enforcement of law.

Again I want to draw your attention to the fact that this 
affects the whole world, and there is no case for the US 
determining changes in international agreements without 
negotiation. Google's tentacles spread far.

Joseph Harris 



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