Re:Daring Fireball: Pay Walls
by Derferman on Friday July 24, 2009 @11:38PM
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The problem I see with a setup like this is piracy. It only takes one person to pay $0.25 and put the text up on github/scribd/pastie or any of the hundreds of services available.
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Google indexes the internet in near real time. Pay Google to monitor for copyright infringement for you.
Regardless, I don't think the random copies are that big of a deal. The only time something material is lost is when a copy gets posted to reddit or digg instead of the original. Few people are going to come across random copies of articles in obscure corners of the internet without direction.
> Google indexes the internet in near real time.
Technically Google only index's top sites in near real time. CNN might be walked many times a day, but if you think that every blog or torrent site gets walked even close to a fraction as often then your mistaken.