Sex and Google
Do search engines such as Google violate copyright laws? Is the display of a low-pixel image in a search engine illegal? The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco just said no.
It's fascinating how technology changes law and our very concepts of our world. Before printing became commonplace, and even for quite a while after, there was no such thing as "copyright," nor even a clear concept of how a piece of work could belong to its creator.
Now we're questioning whether a computer-interpreted phone line or satellite link that displays a lower pixel version of an electronic image that's computer code interpreted by a personal computer and electronically put together on a visual monitor is a copyright offense. Weird.
Read about the decision at http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2007/05/sex_and_google.html#comment-69784414
Comments
Who cares about copyright. As long as we can get the dirty piXXX!
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | May 19, 2007 04:46 AM
What good is a search engine if it can't search? I'm glad Google won.
Posted by: Binky The WonderSkull | May 21, 2007 04:50 AM
I thought there was always copyright. Guess not. You should have a right to what you create. But a thumbnail in a search engine? Get real.
Posted by: Alan Mann | May 25, 2007 02:05 AM
Did you know almost half of all marriages are in trouble because of Internet Pornography? And nothing can block it. We should remove all of it from the Internet. Then this wouldn't waste valuable court time and taxpayer money!
Posted by: Martina Goodall | May 28, 2007 06:53 AM
Yeah, Martina, you're right. That's why divorce didn't exist before the Internet.
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | May 29, 2007 03:59 AM
There is nothing wrong with pornography! I wish u peeps would get it. People like sex!
Posted by: Perlie the Pony Girl | May 31, 2007 05:33 PM