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How did that site get the sports schedule? Did they just copy it from somewhere else?

• ocdtrekkie 7y ago
  And that's part of the question: If Google's getting all it's data from first party sources, say, scraping it from the team's website, it may not have harmed anyone there. But if it's scraping it from a site which aggregated and normalized the information into an easily parse-able format (hence, providing value, of which Google took advantage), then they must be compensated for it.
  • criddell 7y ago
    Presumably the site being scraped is getting some value from being included in Google's index. If they aren't, they can always opt out.
    • dmitriid 7y ago
      First you have to find a way to prove it’s your data which isn’t trivial. Genius had to invent a watermarking system for texts: https://betanews.com/2019/06/17/google-genius-com-lyrics/ https://betanews.com/2019/06/17/google-genius-com-lyrics/
      • Dylan16807 7y ago
        You don't have to prove anything to opt out of indexing.
        • criddell 7y ago
          And in the lyrics case, it wouldn't have helped because Google wasn't scraping the lyrics. Google was paying a third party that copied the Genius site.
          • dmitriid 7y ago
            So it’s a multilayered problem, and content owners are on the losing side.
  • richardwhiuk 7y ago
    If it's getting it from a site that's adding no value (e.g. just copying and pasting another site), then there's probably nobody to compensate either.