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Norwegian site rehosting dozens of comics (including QC)
NotAwesomeAnymore:
People who host music and movie downloads might not make money, but they're still pirating. Is this different?
Though it took years of assholery to bring down The Pirate Bay, so I don't know what can come of this...
stoutfiles:
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--- Quote from: tender on 13 Jul 2011, 21:20 ---Stop that man! He is stealing the internet.
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I have problems understanding many a legal concept related to internet, but exactly how does this differ from what Google is doing?
Collecting data published by others and using it to generate traffic. Just in smaller scale. If there is an actual copyright violation, then, sure, fry his ass, but if he would do it by providing links (as suggested by Jimor), then I fail to see the difference.
FYI: I keep adblock on for many a site (not QC, as the ads there are not so disturbing, but e.g. anything originating from google.analytics is blocked - at least I like to think it is - as I don't want to partake a massive marketing research project) and prefer to support the sites I enjoy with the donate button.
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Google, along with other search engines, can be blocked in a robots.txt file in the root folder of a website. That isn't a big deal.
I can't be bothered to go to that guys website, but is he hosting the images himself or just embedding them from the QC site? If it's the latter, Jeph can change his server settings to block all images that are viewed outside the QC website.
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 14 Jul 2011, 05:52 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 13 Jul 2011, 22:51 ---
--- Quote from: tender on 13 Jul 2011, 21:20 ---Stop that man! He is stealing the internet.
--- End quote ---
I have problems understanding many a legal concept related to internet, but exactly how does this differ from what Google is doing?
Collecting data published by others and using it to generate traffic. Just in smaller scale. If there is an actual copyright violation, then, sure, fry his ass, but if he would do it by providing links (as suggested by Jimor), then I fail to see the difference.
FYI: I keep adblock on for many a site (not QC, as the ads there are not so disturbing, but e.g. anything originating from google.analytics is blocked - at least I like to think it is - as I don't want to partake a massive marketing research project) and prefer to support the sites I enjoy with the donate button.
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Google, along with other search engines, can be blocked in a robots.txt file in the root folder of a website. That isn't a big deal.
I can't be bothered to go to that guys website, but is he hosting the images himself or just embedding them from the QC site? If it's the latter, Jeph can change his server settings to block all images that are viewed outside the QC website.
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He is hosting them himself, with credits underneath each comic listing the author and a link back to the author's website.
From the About page for the website:
--- Quote ---comics is a web comics aggregator. Out of the box it can crawl and archive more than a hundred comics every day. The comics are made available through an easy to use web interface were multiple users can create sets of their favorite comics. Alternatively, comics provides feeds of both single comics and sets of comics.
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So it's basically a web browser version of those multiple webcomic viewer apps for the various smartphones out there.
idontunderstand:
--- Quote from: NotAwesomeAnymore on 14 Jul 2011, 04:33 ---People who host music and movie downloads might not make money, but they're still pirating. Is this different?
Though it took years of assholery to bring down The Pirate Bay, so I don't know what can come of this...
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No but they (supposedly) cause economical damage to the people who created the original works. This can probably not be said with Jeph's comic, since it's a free webcomic.
stoutfiles:
If Jeph cares he can send a DMCA notice to both the site owner and to Google. This works 99% of the time.
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