European Group: Online Content Can't Remain Free
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I guess since the Europeans haven't been too successful in their quest to wrestle control of the Internet away from the United States, they feel the next step in the battle is to escalate to legal attacks against top American Web sites that link to European content. Looking at the essence of the European publisher's argument, they seem to be attacking hyperlinking, which makes up the foundation of the Web. Without linked content there would be no Web and there would be no European publishers successful enough to complain about it.
It will probably be argued that Google doesn't really make money from content as it simply links the content and users still have to visit the actual sites in question. Those silly Europeans need to stop trying to destroy the Internet and just worry about important things like how not to start yet another World War.
I've said it before, please just let the dissenters disconnect. They will only be cutting off their noses to spite themselves.
NEWSLINE
Here's a scary foreign perspective: "The idea that the Internet is an unregulated haven, these days are finished."
NEWSBYTE
Group: Online Content Cannot Remain Free
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. "The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have...
TENSION: Unwanted
GRAVITY: Foolish
Tags: News, Computers and Internet, technology, New Media, online, Web2.0, Web 2.0, intellectual property
I guess since the Europeans haven't been too successful in their quest to wrestle control of the Internet away from the United States, they feel the next step in the battle is to escalate to legal attacks against top American Web sites that link to European content. Looking at the essence of the European publisher's argument, they seem to be attacking hyperlinking, which makes up the foundation of the Web. Without linked content there would be no Web and there would be no European publishers successful enough to complain about it.
It will probably be argued that Google doesn't really make money from content as it simply links the content and users still have to visit the actual sites in question. Those silly Europeans need to stop trying to destroy the Internet and just worry about important things like how not to start yet another World War.
I've said it before, please just let the dissenters disconnect. They will only be cutting off their noses to spite themselves.
NEWSLINE
Here's a scary foreign perspective: "The idea that the Internet is an unregulated haven, these days are finished."
NEWSBYTE
Group: Online Content Cannot Remain Free
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. "The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have...
TENSION: Unwanted
GRAVITY: Foolish
Tags: News, Computers and Internet, technology, New Media, online, Web2.0, Web 2.0, intellectual property
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