Re:Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win...
by izacus on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:03PM
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> If I was the 800 pound search engine throwing my weight around to quote a sentence from a movie or book, then yes, maybe I should be fined--or at least required to offer compensation.
Except that the (current American) law doesn't work that way - the 800 pound gorillas use their billions to pay lawyers to abuse small creators and outlets based on such creative interpretations of copyright laws. The gorillas are capable of fighting a copyright battle at court over details while they can just abuse the same right into some individuals bankrupcy.
Giving them even more power over your expression is incredibly harmful to society.
If I was the 800 pound search engine throwing my weight around to quote a sentence from a movie or book, then yes, maybe I should be fined--or at least required to offer compensation.
I think there's a difference between a company with billions in revenue doing it versus "you".
> Google helps you by actually giving you information you search without having to go through a SEOd webpage feeding tracking advertisers.
You say this as if Google.com itself isn't the ultimate tracked web property for an advertising giant.