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You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales and be upset when people borrow the book and read it from the local library.
by vorpalhex 4y ago
You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales and be upset when people borrow the book and read it from the local library.
- kube-system 4y agoAnd you cannot take a book from someone who asks for money, refuse to pay, and say "but it's free at the library!" The difference is consent.
- vorpalhex 4y agoBut we are literally getting the copy here from the library because the author gave the book to the library. Google is obeying robots.txt. Google caches a copy of what you serve and gives that out. That is part of the deal.
- hk__2 4y ago> You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales Nobody does that. The comparison doesn’t hold.
- vorpalhex 4y agoYou are doing that when you let Google past the paywall.