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0 pointsGrimm14y ago0 comments

I'm actually cool assuming there is implicit harm and no benefit, but by that logic we need to tear google down too. I'm cool making that trade but it has to be done equally.

If you can't make that trade then you've weighed the value provided by an organization like google to be more valuable than the copyright of these content creators and I want other players who may want to be able to challenge google to have the same protections and access google does to have a chance at providing the same value.

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achillesheels4y ago· 2 in thread

Well actually, isn’t Google improving the value of the content ergo property itself by improving its accessibility? I was inferring a one-way street with the accumulated data that can lead to server crashes - which I don’t believe Google’s web crawl does at all (in fact that would be counter-productive).

Grimm1OP4y ago

I'd say most crawlers are looking to provide enriched value for content at their end use. Google is just an aggregator (the biggest by far) but other aggregators are looking to provide similar value.

achillesheels4y ago

So then an aggregator is different than a scraping service with respect to the value given to the rest of humanity? In that, in principle one adds value to the content creation and the other deducts through potential harmful interference with its reciprocity?

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