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I wonder whether protocol and technical aspects provide a defense to this. If I request a page from your web site and I get back 200 OK, is that not some kind
by zmmmmm 15y ago
I wonder whether protocol and technical aspects provide a defense to this. If I request a page from your web site and I get back 200 OK, is that not some kind of permission? If then I receive an instruction to cache the page (or elements thereof), is that not some kind of encouragement to keep a copy? If the page has a permissive robots.txt, or even by choice no robots.txt, does it not indicate that visitors are welcome to come and store the copy for indexing purposes?
- jamesbritt 15y agoYou would think so, but technical arguments seem to get ignored in these matters. For example, so-called "deep linking". Controlling direct access to Web resources is a solved technical problem, and if someone has a URL that responds to a basic GET then, hey, it must be intended for that; that's how it works. Yet it still ends up as fodder for endless legal manuevers.