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Norwegian site rehosting dozens of comics (including QC)
Jimor:
Since you have to click a link to go to each comic on his site anyway, his script could just as easily find the new comics posted and list the links directly to the real comic sites.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: IMMANotListening on 13 Jul 2011, 20:50 ---I wasn't aware people could do something like that.
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Hello, and welcome to the Internet. Here is your complimentary soda and 14 year old......
Skewbrow:
--- 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.
pwhodges:
The problem with talking about the law and the Internet is that the Internet does not respect country boundaries. Also that it deals in concepts that the law is only vaguely aware of. So the law, such as it is, varies between countries, but it is often not clear what country's law should be applicable. A summary that has notes on a number of major cases in several countries related to deep linking is given on Wikipedia. There seems to be an element in the current consensus that if you can't stop it, you should find words to justify it.
idontunderstand:
Unless he's getting money for hosting other people's works (in any way, if more visitors gain him economic advantages in some way) there's no way you can get him using norwegian intellectual property law. Not American either, as far as I know, not sure there though.
It's what lawyers call "a dick move".
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